Fauci mocked “arse-backwards” diners who put on mask when standing and off while seated

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Dr. Anthony Fauci crassly mocked “arse-backwards” restaurant patrons who removed their coronavirus masks when seated — and laughed at the absurdity of his own idea for anti-COVID-19 goggles, according to a new book.

The inside account is included by former White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern in “Vignettes & Vino” — out Oct. 25 — which calls Fauci “awful” and an “egomaniac.”

“[I]n January 2020, [Fauci] said the virus was nothing to worry about for the American people. Then in the months that followed, he said that people should not wear masks and that they were ineffective. By June or July, he had changed his tune and said everyone should be very concerned and that they should wear multiple masks — and goggles,” Morgenstern wrote.

“I vividly recall my blood boiling during an infuriating meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, when Fauci laughed about his own goggles comment, making it clear how cynical he was and that he could get people to believe anything,” the former aide continued.

“He went on to laugh about how ‘arse-backwards’ it was that people entered a restaurant wearing a mask, then sat down and conversed with people without a mask. Of course, he wasn’t saying things to that effect publicly, just laughing privately at the American rubes he was fooling.”

The practice of wearing masks into businesses but not while eating or drinking was mandated by local orders across the US in mid-2020. Indoor tables generally were spaced apart to allow for social distancing between parties.

Although he allegedly laughed about his own goggles remark, Fauci offered a more serious impression when he made the recommendation to ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton.

“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci told Ashton in July 2020.

Asked if eye protection would be formally recommended, Fauci said, “It might, if you really want perfect protection of the mucosal surfaces.”

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