Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is John Tierney, a contributing editor to City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Rob Munts, who has just released an important and riveting documentary on YouTube.

It's about the COVID fiasco and is titled, It Wasn't Fauci, how the Deep State really played Trump.

Now, Rob is a journalist, and he's the CEO and co-founder of Good Kid Productions.

Two years ago, before the rest of the country discovered the deficiencies of Harvard President

Claudine Gay, Rob wrote it in Quillette and also released a documentary, exposing how she

and other Harvard officials unfairly punished

and suspended Roland Friar, a brilliant economist at Harvard whose research on policing and schooling

contradicted progressive dogma on racism. Now Rob has taken on a much bigger scandal.

The useless and devastatingly harmful COVID lockdown school

closures and other mandates that were imposed on America and copied in the rest of the world.

I've written a lot about these issues at City Journal, how these terrible measures were imposed

against the longstanding advice of the best experts on dealing with pandemics and against

the best scientific evidence about these measures. Now, this was, I think, the costliest and

worst mistake ever made in the history of public health, probably the worst public policy

blunder ever made during peacetime in America. And like a lot of people, I've wondered, how could we be so stupid?

Well, Rob answers that question in his new documentary. And the answer will be news to the many people who

put all the blame on Anthony Fauci. Now, there's no question that Fauci bears a lot of responsibility.

He was a public face of COVID. He was the darling of the gullible

reporters in the mainstream media, who just bought his version of, quote, the science, unquote.

And because his agency controlled so much of the research funding into infectious diseases,

you know, scientists depended on that funding. We're afraid to contradict them. And therefore,

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