1392 Fauci Takes the Fifth

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (0:02)
Easy, sold my car on Carvana, amazing offer.

**Richard Syrett** (0:05)
Really? I hit 200 on a scratcher.

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (0:08)
Did the scratcher come to your house and hand you a check?

**Richard Syrett** (0:10)
No.

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (0:11)
How many scratchers did you hit to get that? I hit a button on carvana.com once.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:15)
Okay, that's fair.

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (0:17)
It's like the lottery, except you always win.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:20)
Not like the lottery at all, actually.

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (0:22)
Exactly, inexplicably good. Offer's worth bragging about. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pick up VsMayApply. You can fit 100 million COVID particles on a pinhead. That number is unfathomable to people. You can't see them.
They're that tiny. If you understand that it only takes one particle, one live particle to infect you or influenza, it's one live particle, just one. So when you think about wearing that mask, it's just ridiculous. It's falling off your face. People are wearing it wrong. I mean, my mother was one of these and she watched the Lame Stream News. I went over one day to pick up some groceries for her. I went to the store, dropped them off and she wouldn't let me get near her now. Stop, she says. And she comes out, she says, put them in the back of my trunk. I'm going to come in and wipe them down. She comes out wearing her mask, surgical mask, upside down, falling off her nose and she's scared to come near me. This is what's sad about this. We, we, people thought they had a shield of armor when they wore that mask. They thought they were invincible. Same thing when they went and got the shot.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:21)
Richard Syrett's Strange Planet, following the truth wherever it leads, exposing evil and corruption and the secret machinations of powerful elites, revealing the highest strangeness beneath the surface of our supposed reality, coming to you from the Great White North and his studio beneath the stairs. Here's Richard.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:50)
Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words, quote, behind bars. Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you.

**Richard Syrett** (2:35)
Hey there, welcome to Strange Planet. Tonight, one of the most controversial figures of the COVID era is back under the microscope. Thousands of pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private journals, now known as the Fauci Diaries, have surfaced and they're fueling explosive new questions on Capitol Hill. What did America's top infectious disease official know? When did he know it? And did his private thoughts differ from what the public was told during one of the most consequential public health crises in modern history?
My guest is Dr. Michael J. Schwartz, founder and CEO of Medisure, one of the first health care organizations to conduct COVID-19 testing in New Jersey. While much of America was watching daily White House briefings, Dr. Schwartz and his team were collecting real world clinical data from more than 44,000 diagnostic tests, giving him a rare frontline view of the pandemic as it unfolded.
Years before today's headlines, Dr. Schwartz published Fauci's fiction, arguing that many of the questions now dominating Senate hearings, from testing and natural immunity to public messaging and scientific transparency, were visible in the data as early as 2020 Tonight, we'll compare what the Fauci diaries reportedly reveal with what Dr. Schwartz says he witnessed firsthand, examine the latest Senate testimony, and ask whether these newly released journals rewrite the history of COVID or simply re-open questions that millions of Americans believe were never fully answered. Dr. Michael Schwartz, welcome back to Strange Planet. How are you?

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (4:10)
Thanks. Great to see you, Rich. Thanks for having me.

**Richard Syrett** (4:12)
So for people who may not know your background, again, you weren't watching COVID from a TV studio. You were operating medical clinics and among the first to conduct COVID testing in New Jersey. Briefly explain while you're perspective.

**Dr. Michael J. Schwartz** (4:26)
It's funny, that's the first chapter in my book. It's called perspective because I think that's important.
I'm a research doctor but I own medical clinics, so I manage medical staff. I always have to let people know that. Well, I have some background in medicine. I have more of a background in business and data analytics. So we were interesting. It's funny you say we were among the first, we were actually the first.