FLASHBACK: Fauci warns about the dangerous consequences of mandates and quarantines

Fauci supports draconian quarantines and lockdown rules now, but in 2014, it was a different story.

During the CNN interview, Fauci discusses a real-life issue at the time of a doctor who volunteered to do to Guinea to help fight an Ebola outbreak, and Fauci mentions "scientific" alternatives.

Fauci is asked what the harm is in having all health workers returning to the US undergo a 21-day quarantine, and he responds:

"The harm [in that] is that it is totally disruptive of their life, if you put even a person that is no risk to someone else..."

The interviewer cuts Fauci off with, "Well, they're going to West Africa to treat Ebola patients." Fauci answers:

"Well, exactly, but we want them to go, because they are helping us to protect America by being over there."

"What people need to understand is that the scientific evidence tells you that you're not gonna transmit it. We don't wanna be cavalier."

".... There's passive monitoring; there's active monitoring, where you take your temperature."

".... If in fact they're at a certain risk, they will then be actively monitored, in the sense of somebody taking your temperature, asking you if you have symptoms."

"There's a big big difference between completely confining somebody that they can't even get outside and doing the appropriate monitoring based on scientific evidence."

The interviewer mentions the specific case of a doctor who "came back, had been treating patients in Guinea. He comes home; he's fine for five, six, seven days. All of a sudden begins to feel tired. The night before he comes down with a fever he's out bowling and eating and doing ordinary things, and then obviously gets a fever; of course, they come get him."

"You would eliminate a lot of that. You would not be worried about his fiancee. You would not be worried about the bowling alley."

Fauci replies:

".... There are monitoring guidelines that tell you how you can do that and accomplish the same goal. For example, the monitoring would have picked up at the time he got symptoms and a temperature. Before that, we was not [infectous] to anyone."

Fauci previously opined via emails that masks are "not really effective", among other things.