Vox.com: "Oh, and face masks? You can pass on them. Masks are only useful if you have a respiratory infection already and want to limit the risk of spreading, or if you're working in a hospital in direct contact with people who have respiratory illnesses." Deleted and sent down the memory hole today

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[–]Velocity 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

If everyone wore a mask, we'd have been done with this a long time ago.

Prove your opinion, Karen.

"Right now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks," Fauci said during the interview. "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask." He continued, "When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is." -Fauci

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

OK let's take a look at what happened and why.

The upper echelon was caught with its pants down and did not have adequate emergency supplies on hand for a pandemic.

They were extremely concerned about people going out and buying every mask available, hoarding them, and then medical personnel and other essential front line workers would not have enough.

So they deliberately told people a little white lie, a misstatement: "Masks don't help, don't go buy them."

Dr. Fauci later rescinded this statement and explained why they did it, and apologized. He also stated the exact opposite: "Masks work to protect others, and we should all be wearing them."

BTW, what they predicted came to pass exactly: everyone went out and bought up all the supplies, and the hospitals ran short.

So either you are not keeping up with current events, or you are deliberately presenting misinformation as fact.

Now, let's look at what your quote from Dr. Fauci says about the effectiveness of masks. No mask is 100% effective. It's not supposed to be. The R0 rate of infection spread needs to be reduced to below 1. That's all. Then the disease will die out. No one has ever said that masks are 100% effective. They just need to knock it down. Epedemiologists have known this for over 100 years. We have literally over a century of empirical evidence that masks work.

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So they deliberately told people a little white lie, a misstatement:

Imagine trusting the people who you admit lied to you to save their own ass.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Imagine that he was told to do so by the Trump administration officials who were caught with their pants down.

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Imagine imagining within an imagine.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So just think about it for a minute. We had a couple of medium-small pandemics during the Obama years. FEMA stockpiles were depleted. As always, that was at the bottom of the list and they have been shortchanged in the budget department over and over. (Blame on Obama, Congress, Trump, whatever.) Trump takes office and continues the same path, along with dismantling the Pandemic Response Team and throwing out the pandemic plan that was started by W and revised by Obama. In the meantime, we're still low on supplies. Then we got hit with a real bad one, low on supplies and no plan. So they downplayed it until it got so bad no one could ignore it. Fin.

This really happened. Facts are facts. Those aren't my opinions. Look it up - this is verifiable.