--- type: Topic title: "Masks, lockdowns and NPIs" description: "Non-pharmaceutical interventions: masking, distancing, closures." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 230 sources: - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: letter_dni, resource: /sources/letter-dni.md, title: Chairman Paul Letter to DNI Gabbard, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2025-10-30 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Non-pharmaceutical interventions: masking, distancing, closures. Tagged on **230** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 123 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 17 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 14 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 9 documents * [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 4 documents * [Dan Diamond](/people/dan-diamond.md) - 1 documents * Frank Bruni - 1 documents * Jalal Baig - 1 documents * Paul LeBlanc - 1 documents * Quint Forgey - 1 documents * William Sommer - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2001-10-08** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Ridge the truth or he is masking the truth." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-08-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The West African countries are instituting quarantines and border closings, which may slow down the epidemic, but there is the beginning of a humanitarian crisis to get food, water and supplies to the quarantined areas." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-09-07** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Sept. 7, 2014 - POTUS said on Meet the Press today the following: POTUS on Ebola on Meet the Press, 9/7/14: *Americans should not be concerned about prospects of contagion here in US, shortterm, because it is not airborne disease like the flu. *No public…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-02** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Amazingly, the girlfriend and children are being legally quarantined (armed guard at door) in the room with the soiled sheets and towels still in the room unable to be removed." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-25** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Cuomo of New York State surprised and shocked the New York City public health authorities as well as the CDC and the US government (including President Obama) by declaring an absolute quarantine on all healthcare workers coming back to the United States…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-25** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "In this way, you have a repetitive clinical judgment concering restriction as opposed to a broad sweeping quarantine for evryone." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-25** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (instructs): "We all decided that we need to point out that healthcare workers are heroes and that if we in fact quarantine them indiscriminately regardless of their stratification of risk that we would clearly disincentivize them for wanting to volunteer as well as…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Cuomo had done two days ago by initiating a full quarantine for flights into New Jersey and New York." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Therefore, the principles leading to a broad general quarantine for returning health care workers is deeply flawed." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (acknowledges): "I mentioned that I understood why they may feel that this is the best way to go; however, I mentioned that if they had asked my advice I would have told them not to institute a broad sweeping quarantine." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-26** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "NO QUARANTINES....its the answer you'd expect from a government agency whose greatest accomplishments are in the areas of corruption and incompetence." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-27** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "She got caught in the quarantine issue and was put in an old hospital tent in New Jersey and (as she says) was treated like a criminal/prisoner." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-28** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Christie is standing firm in saying that the US government, particularly the CDC, are playing catch-up with Ebola and that his initiation of a quarantine for 21 days for healthcare workers and other travelers returning from West Africa is the way to go." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-28** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The POTUS made a brief speech in front of Marine 1 as he was about to take off reaffirming what I said on Sunday TV (without invoking my name) that we are driven by science and not by fear and so there is no reason to do a blanket quarantine on all returning…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-30** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "In essence they said that these people need to be quarantined if they came from a West African country or if they had taken care of the patient with Ebola within the last 21 days." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-30** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "This is an extension of the quarantine craziness that was started by Governors Christie and Cuomo." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-10-31** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Oct. 31, 2014 - Jeff Drazen, Editor of NEJM, contacted me to put him in touch with some of the trusted AIDS activists with whom I have worked over the years to get them to write a piece in the NEJM on the similarities between the stigma of HIV/AIDS and the…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-12-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (instructs): "Murphy was upset with me at a recent Hearing (see above) when he said that I was making condescending statements about quarantine and why we should not have quarantines." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-12-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (instructs): "Also, he was concerned that with the latest proposal for 32 additional Ebola-ready hospitals in the USA that we should quarantine the USA HCWs after seeing Ebola patients." [^diary_prequel] * **2014-12-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (denies): "He was OK with just direct, active monitoring of the NIH, Emory and Nebraska HCWs, but he felt that since the other 32 hospitals were less trained and so would likely have a greater chance of getting infected, then they should be quarantined since (as a…" [^diary_prequel] * **2015-04-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Gregg Gonsalves (old ACT-UP and TAG) who is now a Ph.D. student at Yale has brought to NIH (7A-24) a few (three) Yale students to interview me on a piece that they are writing on the issues with unnecessary quarantine of people working with Ebola." [^diary_prequel] * **2019-02-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Travis AFB, Miramar, Lackland AFB are landing destinations for US Citizens coming from Wuhan so that we can implememnt institutional quarantines and medical care if needed." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-01-22** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "To complicate it all, while we were in the PCC, China announced that it is cutting off all public transportation (air, ferries, train, buses, out of Wuhan City) Essentially a quarantine of the entire city of 11 million people except for absolute emergencies." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-01-22** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Any person, but specifically U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents (LPRs) who have been: (1) in Hubei province within the past 14 days may be subject to 14 day mandatory quarantine; and (2) in China (outside Hubei province) within the past 14 days may…" [^fauci_diary] * **2020-01-30** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (acknowledges): "Thus, it was agreed to present to the POTUS a revised plan for containment: The 200 people at March Base would be quarantines for 15 days." [^fauci_diary] # Matching terms High-confidence: `mask mandate`, `face mask`, `masking`, `lockdown`, `social distancing`, `stay at home`, `school closure`, `quarantine`, `shelter in place` Supporting: `mask`, `distancing`, `closure`, `reopening`, `restrictions`, `n95` # Sources [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^letter_dni]: [letter_dni](/sources/letter-dni.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)