Masking the Truth

According to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, she’s having a hard time communicating with the American people. Her solution? Walensky says, “My job is to put my head down, ignore the criticism, and do the right thing for the public and to do the right thing for health.”

Actually, her job should include listening to criticism, and ignoring it is a major reason why only half of Americans are fully vaccinated against the ChiCom Virus pandemic. Americans of all stripes mistrust the CDC, and that mistrust is well earned.

Obviously, when the CDC adulterates data in order to push Joe Biden’s political agenda, as it did when recently falsifying infection rates in Florida, that is a big trust-buster.

But the trust deficit issue related to masking and now vaxing has its origin in the propagation of lies extending back to the very beginning of the pandemic — starting with the efficacy of masking, as Biden is now considering masking and vaxing mandates.

In February 2020, Anthony “Flip-Flop” Fauci declared: “There is no reason for anyone right now in the United States, with regard to coronavirus, to wear a mask. … I think there’s this misperception that wearing a mask, even if you were in an area where there was transmission, is going to absolutely protect you.”

Two weeks later, Surgeon General Jerome Adams declared: “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching Coronavirus.” Days later, Adams said again, “Masks do not work for the general public and preventing them from getting coronavirus.”

A week after that, Fauci reiterated in a national media interview: “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. 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. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”

Months later, they admitted they outright lied about masking, justifying the lies by claiming they were meant to ensure there were enough masks for healthcare workers in close proximity to severely ill patients, to lower the risk of contracting or spreading the virus. However, assuming there is reliable data to support the assertion that the paper and cloth masks use by 99% of maskers, provide a significant deterrent, it’s clear that Anthony Fauci’s public lies about masking accelerated the spread of COVID-19.

But the evidence establishing the efficacy of masking is, at best, mixed. Recently, our Emmy Griffin wrote on the subject of masking efficacy, questioning, amid all the rush to re-mask, whether the masks 99.9% of Americans are using actually work.

Fact is, based on a review of 14 key randomized controlled tests on masking, the evidence indicates that “three [of the studies] suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful.” However, the researchers conclude, “The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless — whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone — or actually counterproductive.” And even tests under controlled laboratory conditions find that most masks used now, are not very effective.