Michael Caputo just revealed the moment when he realized Fauci didn’t care about the damage that lockdowns would do to Americans’ mental health. “Nobody cared.” “What they cared about was getting a product in the arms of the American people.” It came down to a moment in 2020 when he pushed HHS officials to tackle the crisis of despair. “The President created a pot of money for public service announcements and public education.” “I think the CDC and others were seeing that as their money to convince people to follow a mandate, which was never going to happen.” “There was never going to be a mandate under Trump.” “I went in and I pitched the idea… that the real problem here was despair.” “The American people, the polling was showing that they were far more mentally ill with despair than they were with Covid.” “I wanted to work very closely with the White House Office of Faith to get faith leaders to do podcasts with people like Tony Fauci to actually get people out of despair.” “Tony disparaged that.” “All the careers disparaged that.” “Nobody thought about the downside of the lockdowns.” “Nobody really thought about the mental health of the children that were cut off from education and friends.” @jeffreytucker @MichaelRCaputo