Overall, were these views of Dr. Atlas or Dr. Fauci on public health measures promoted by extraterrestrial mind control?

Both views were not only tolerated but encouraged, as is the practice of the Extraterrestrial Alliance, in ramping up both sides of an argument in order to create tension and discord as a basic operating principle, because it serves their overarching agenda of divide and conquer no matter what the circumstances and issues at hand. So mind control might be active to inculcate false beliefs, but also passive to monitor and then not interfere with someone having a strong opposing view. That makes their work easier to simply let someone alone who already has a strong bias in a certain direction. They might or might not give further encouragement but may well do so even when that individual knows the truth and it works against the alien agenda. That seems inexplicable to human beings who do not think that way. Humans are used to taking sides and then supporting their side alone, and would never give aid and comfort to the enemy, so to speak. The extraterrestrials routinely take both sides knowing their end goal is seeing human discord, so they are after a differing agenda, neither truth nor falsehood, but a good fight and disagreement that creates ill will, rancor, and long-term resentment, if not an active grudge match.