I find these newly released messages because they expose once again how differently these people spoke privately compared with the absolute certainty projected upon the public. Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul have now released an initial batch of messages recovered from Anthony Fauci’s government-issued iPhone, reportedly containing more than 34,000 texts. In January 2021, while officials were discussing vaccination during pregnancy, Fauci himself raised a concern about the second dose and wrote that it “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” That is Fauci’s language, not mine.

Fauci said the second jab specifically raised fever and what he called a “cytokine storm.” Vivek Murthy responded that Fauci had raised “a really good point” and said it was worth examining. Fauci also noted that more than 10,000 pregnant women had already received the vaccine without apparent “red flags,” but these women and unborn children were used as test subjects. Behind closed doors these officials were discussing uncertainty while the public conversation increasingly became one in which anyone asking difficult questions was treated like an idiot.

Pregnant women deserved to know precisely what government officials knew, what they did not know, and what they were privately debating. In January 2021, nobody possessed five or ten years of pregnancy data for these vaccines because that data could not possibly have existed. Instead, “the science” mandated these vaccines and insisted they were safe and effective for everyone from newborns to unborn babies in utero.

By July 30, 2021, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine were recommending vaccination for pregnant women, with ACOG saying there was evidence of “safe and effective use” during pregnancy. On August 11, the CDC went further and issued a statement literally titled “New CDC Data: COVID-19 Vaccination Safe for Pregnant People,” recommending vaccination during pregnancy after citing surveillance data showing no increased miscarriage signal.

By September, ACOG declared that its message “cannot be stronger or clearer” and described vaccination during pregnancy as “safe and effective.” In January, Fauci was privately discussing a first-trimester miscarriage concern surrounding the second dose; months later, America’s most powerful health organizations insisted upon vaccinations. The public deserved to understand how officials went from one position to the other, but asking questions during the COVID madness era was not permitted. You were to blindly follow “the science” and condemn anyone who dared to inquire.

A federal study was published in April 2021 depicting the miscarriage rate at around 12.6% for pregnant women exposed to the mRNA vaccine. The science decreed that remaining unvaccinated was a far deadlier risk to pregnant women and their unborn children. We know now that the vaccine failed to prevent against infection or transmission. FAR WORSE: the federal study actually documents a MISCARRIAGE RATE OF 82% for women who took the toxin in their second or third trimester. The study showed that the vaccination had the exact same rate of miscarriage as the abortion pill. WOMEN WERE MISLED TO ABORT THEIR CHILDREN. How is there not an absolute uproar over these findings?

Johnson and Paul say these messages are only an initial release from more than 34,000 recovered texts. Paul has already sought answers from Fauci concerning other aspects of the government’s pandemic response, while Johnson says additional records should be examined. Release them ALL. Stop protecting bureaucracies, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else. The government spent years demanding transparency from ordinary Americans while treating its own internal deliberations as something the public had no right to see.

Health agencies across the world reiterated the “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE” messaging and actively targeted pregnant women in marketing campaigns.

The greatest scandal of COVID may ultimately be the destruction of trust. People were told to trust government officials because they possessed information ordinary citizens did not. Now, years later, internal emails and texts continue showing something much more human: officials debating uncertainties, questioning evidence, worrying about risks and sometimes disagreeing among themselves. That is actually how science is supposed to work. What was unacceptable was pretending before the public that such uncertainty barely existed.

People were making decisions about their bodies, pregnancies, livelihoods and families. They had every right to know what their government was discussing. Anything less was an abuse of public trust.