CDC still battling COVID.

Is the CDC’s Mask Propaganda Effective?

Are Masks Really Effective Against COVID?

Despite the CDC’s insistence on promoting masks, there is little evidence to suggest that they are effective in preventing the spread of COVID. However, the CDC continues to churn out mask propaganda, using gobs of PR money to do so.

Patronizing and Misinforming Propaganda

The CDC’s new material appears to be aimed at the less intellectually endowed. Some of it is for children, but many of the pamphlets and videos are basically dumbed-down comic books for adults. They are patronizing, off-putting, and insulting the intelligence of anybody over 5 years old. Moreover, they are filled with misinformation.

Disproportionate Emphasis on Protecting Children from COVID

What really burns me is the disproportionate emphasis on protecting children from COVID. In the grand list of things that harm children in America, COVID doesn’t come close to being an important problem. For most of us, it just isn’t a big problem, and for children, it barely registers. Yet, the CDC spends god-awful amounts of money telling parents to mask their children still. Accidental drownings are the #1 cause of death in children 1-4. If the CDC spent half the time it spent on COVID in kids focused on child-proofing pools, many more lives would be saved.

The Modern Propaganda Mill

One of the biggest sins of the modern propaganda mill is how distorted a view of reality it provides. Even when focusing on real problems, the sense of proportion is rarely there. In a rational world, one would focus on the biggest problems first, and the smallest problems last. Instead, we get the crisis-du-jour, where some politico or bureaucrat decides that we all should care about the current “thing,” regardless of how important. Well, for the CDC COVID is still the “thing,” at least until another biolab releases a new killer bug. They just can’t quite COVID.