1) Nobody is walking back the death tolls.

2) Fauci hadn't been claiming that masking stopped people from CATCHING Covid, but that it stops people from spreading it. Without masking- and remember, nobody was ever actually harmed by putting a mask on- we'd be in the situation Peru and Brazil was in. The lowest infection and death rates were always in New Zealand, where they locked down, masked and socially distanced vigilantly- and, unlike Mr. Trump, the prime minister of New Zealand was re-elected in a landslide after doing that, becoming the first party leader in that country to win a majority government under proportional represention- the system where you actually have to win a majority of the vote to win a majority of the seats.

3) It has been repeatedly shown that Covid transmission is massively reduced by masking and social distancing. Why would you object to erring on the side of keeping your fellow human beings alive?

4) As to the Illinois coroner- which county was that, btw- all we know for sure there is that the guy claimed something.