They only need Tony as a pretty mouth who is believed by enough people. With the tortured puppies, quite a few of those people will stop liking Fauci.
Fauci looks, acts and talks like a perfect villain from a kids cartoon, so he would be a perfect fall guy.
The globalists who are trying to sneakily impose totalitarianism, are extremely serious and would not hesitate to use murder to further their goals.
But at the same time, what is happening is an experiment that is very likely to fail. I hope that it fails soon, not in 70 years like the communism.
I am optimistic and I am looking ahead for exciting future and self-cleansing of civilization.