This sentence not making any fucking sense in terms of these hearings is the point; this whole dog and pony show is just all about punishing this one guy for defying them. "Shh, don't make people believe that the sciences we're trying to cut actually work, Fauci! Alright that's it..."
Aaron RuparRep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."