[Source.](https://reason.com/video/2023/05/08/fauci-and-biden-are-rewriting-the-history-of-covid-19-restrictions/) > The federal government says the COVID-19 emergency is finally over, and it's ending the restriction that are still in place. > White House COVID advisor Ashish Jha recently said that while they're no longer needed, these policies "had a tremendous beneficial impact." > He's wrong. Actually, many COVID restrictions had a dubious public health benefit, grew the government's power arbitrarily, and should never have existed in the first place. But public officials, including former Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci and President Joe Biden, are eager to rewrite history. Vaccine passports, shutting down schools, requiring cloth masks—none of these policies worked as intended, and many of the government officials who forced them on us are now trying to deny that they deserve any blame.