Bite me : https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-said-masks-not-really-effective-keeping-out-virus-email-reveals-1596703
Fauci knew precisely what he was purposefully doing and what he was saying, and sided with trying to defend as many first responders/medical professionals as he could, which is completely understandable, but it's a choice that was made by him, and the trolley question he answered at that time which he later revised to "for gods sake everyone should be wearing masks", which anyone who was watching the people drop dead in Wuhan, already knew