{"id":2021330,"date":"2023-09-04T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-is-back-and-hes-telling-you-to-mask-up-just-because-he-says-so\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:59:27","slug":"fauci-is-back-and-hes-telling-you-to-mask-up-just-because-he-says-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-is-back-and-hes-telling-you-to-mask-up-just-because-he-says-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci&#8217;s Back, Urging Mask Use Based on Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-is-back-and-hes-telling-you-to-mask-up-just-because-he-says-so%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>To Mask or Not\u200d to Mask: Fauci&#8217;s Return<\/h2>\n<p>To paraphrase the epigrammatic\u2063 Taylor Swift, Dr. Anthony Fauci\u200b comes back stronger than a 2020 trend.<\/p>\n<p>Really,\u2063 I thought we were rid of the bugger. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fauci-announces-the-us-will-rejoin-the-world-health-organization-promises-to-give-them-our-money\/\" title=\"WATCH: Fauci Announces the US Will Rejoin the World Health Organization, Promises to Give Them Our Money\">chief medical adviser<\/a> to the president, head of the National Institute of Allergies \u2063and Infectious Diseases and\u2063 de facto national COVID czar left his position in December 2022, just before the Republicans took the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the House GOP\u200d doesn\u2019t seem to\u200b be interested in vigorously investigating Fauci \u2014 despite a\u200c superabundance of\u200b matters that deserve investigation, \u200cat least in this writer\u2019s opinion \u2014 so our best hope was that the little man would fade into obscurity as we learned to forget that he, more than anyone else, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-is-back-and-hes-telling-you-to-mask-up-just-because-he-says-so\/\" title=\"Fauci's Back, Urging Mask Use Based on Expertise\">helped facilitate lockdowns<\/a>, masking, attempted vaccine mandates\u2062 and the social isolation that hath wrought so many economic, mental\u200b and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-childrens-hospital-says-school-mask-mandates-end-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social\u2062 ills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But no.<\/p>\n<p>First, there\u2019s a New Variant of COVID\u2063 that some in the establishment are freaking out about.<\/p>\n<p>Second, if the variant causes enough COVID freakout, there\u2019s a problematic (for his side, anyhow) \u2064study \u2064published this \u2064year that showed masking didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>In an \u200bappearance on CNN, Fauci admitted the \u200bstudy was pretty much factual \u2014 but, you know, you should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mask-mandates-beginning-reappear-across-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still mask up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Host Michael\u200d Smerconish quoted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/21\/opinion\/do-mask-mandates-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> piece about the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranelibrary.com\/cdsr\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD006207.pub6\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cochrane Study<\/a>. (Full title: \u201cPhysical interventions to interrupt\u2063 or reduce the spread\u2063 of respiratory viruses.\u201d Probably best to keep it at \u201cCochrane Study.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks \u2063for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses \u2014 including Covid-19 \u2063\u2014 was\u2064 published late last month. Its \u2062conclusions, said Tom Jefferson,\u2062 the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous,\u201d the February article read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019There is just no evidence that they\u2019 \u2014 masks \u2014 \u2063\u2018make any difference,\u2019 he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. \u2018Full stop.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-york-times-finally-admits-masks-dont-do-a-thing\/\" title=\"The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don\u2019t Do A @#%*&#038; Thing\">lower-quality surgical<\/a> or cloth masks? \u2018Makes no difference \u2014 none of it,\u2019 said Jefferson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he said that \u201cpolicymakers\u201d \u2014 politicians, \u201cthe\u2063 experts,\u201d a certain head of the NIAID \u2014 were \u201cconvinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u2063 that\u2062 doesn\u2019t sound good. What say\u2063 you, Dr. Fauci?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that masks work,\u201d he told Smerconish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent studies give different percentages of\u2062 advantage of wearing it,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cBut there\u2019s no \u2064doubt that the weight of the studies \u2014 and there have been \u200bmany studies \u2014 indicate the \u200bbenefit \u200dof wearing masks.\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about the effect on \u200cthe epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the \u200bdata are less strong. \u2064But when you talk about \u200cas an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading\u200b it to others, there\u2019s no doubt that there are many studies that\u200b show that there is\u200b an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>He added that \u201cwe\u2019re not talking about forcing anybody\u200d to\u2064 do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d \u2064add one word to that sentence: \u201cyet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Sen. Rand\u200b Paul, arguably the \u200cRepublican Party\u2019s staunchest opponent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-tells-children-went-north-pole-vaccinated-santa-claus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci\u2019s \u200bunelected reign of stupidity<\/a>, was decidedly unimpressed with the answer and best summed up the absolutely flawed logic behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFauci admits \u2063that masks don\u2019t work for the public at large but still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-called-fraud-and-liar-after-being-confronted-with-new-mask-study\/\" title=\"Fauci labeled 'fraud' and 'liar' over new mask study.\">absurdly claims masks work<\/a> on an individual basis. More subterfuge,\u201d he said on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fauci admits that masks don\u2019t work for the\u2063 public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UcjOa8flkr\">pic.twitter.com\/UcjOa8flkr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1698372490639327556?\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul is \u2062actually being quite\u2063 genial here, in \u200dmy opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s take is \u200dthat, sure, the data don\u2019t show that \u200bmasking ever worked to stop the spread of COVID-19. Mass data, of course, is how you test if something works. But, Fauci said, \u200c <em>individuals<\/em> \u2062 might benefit from\u2063 something even if there\u2019s no\u200c evidence it works.<\/p>\n<p>This logic,\u2064 if applied to literally anything else in\u2063 medicine, is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/cancer-care\/integrative-medicine\/herbs\/amygdalin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laetrile<\/a> \u2014 \u2064a poison found in\u200d the seeds of apricots \u2014 can effectively treat cancer, and it is deleterious to \u2064pretty much everyone who takes it. Despite this, some charlatans employ it as an alternative treatment for \u200bthe disease.<\/p>\n<p>However, using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-referred-top-dc-prosecutor-criminal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci\u2019s<\/a> logic, you could\u200d say that, for <em>individuals<\/em>, maybe it works \u2014 along with\u2064 chemo and radiation. So, ergo, \u200ddon\u2019t knock laetrile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Will you\u200b follow Fauci and mask up again?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news \u2063updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime.\u2062 You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy\u200b Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 100% (4 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\tfunction ffp_getCookie(cname) {<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar name = cname\u200d + &#8220;=&#8221;;<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar decodedCookie = \u200bdecodeURIComponent(document.cookie);<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar ca = decodedCookie.split(&#8216;;&#8217;);<br \/>\n\t\t\tfor(var i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) {\n\t\t\t\tvar c = ca[i];\n\t\t\t\twhile (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {\n\t\t\t\t\tc = c.substring(1);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn\u200b c.substring(name.length, c.length);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn \"\";\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tfunction ffp_setCookie(cname, cvalue, exdays) {\n\t\t\tvar d \u2062= new Date();\n\t\t\td.setTime(d.getTime() + (exdays*24*60*60*1000));\n\t\t\tvar\u200d expires = \"expires=\"+ d.toUTCString();\n\t\t\tdocument.cookie = cname + \"=\" + cvalue + \u2064\";\" \u200d+ expires +\u200d \";path=\/\";\n\t\t}\n\n\t\twindow.ff_poll_voted = false;\n\n\t\tvar voted_cookie_name = 'firefly_voted_3461127';\n\n\t\tfunction ff_poll_submit( event )\u2062 {\n\t\t\tevent.preventDefault();\n\n\t\t\tvar fireflyPoll \u200b= jQuery( '#firefly-poll' );\n\t\t\tvar fireflyPollContainer = jQuery('#firefly-poll-container');\n\t\t\tvar pollFormBox = jQuery('#pollFormBox');\n\n\t\t\tif( window.ff_poll_voted || ffp_getCookie( voted_cookie_name ) ){ return; 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not only that, but\u200d it leads to cognitive impairment in pretty much everyone.<\/p>\n<p>But the author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/charity-numbers-reveal-ugly-truth-al-sharptons-national-action-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Hitchens<\/a> was \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2010\/06\/hitch22-a-short-footnote-on-the-grape-and-the-grain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famous for claiming<\/a> that excessive use of \u201cthe grape and the grain,\u201d as he called it, enhanced his life and inspired his crystalline prose and rousing rhetoric. (Until, of course, it may have helped contribute to the \u2064esophageal cancer that killed him at only 62.)<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to phrase\u2064 it as\u2062 Fauci might have, the data on copious consumption of alcohol making\u200b one into a Hitchensian wit as opposed to a dissolute, desolate wreck are less strong than one might like \u2014 but at an <em>individual level<\/em>, it might \u2064work. Crack open that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BP51NnoVErA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnnie Walker Black<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This is reductio ad absurdum stuff, but not by as much as you might think.<\/p>\n<p>Mask-wearing didn\u2019t come without its costs, particularly with regard to <a href=\"https:\/\/cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s41235-022-00360-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">language processing and facial recognition<\/a> in children. Not only that, \u200dthe masks became a divisive virtue-signal; if you didn\u2019t put it on, \u200cliberals would go a-Karening on you at the drop of a MAGA hat, claiming that you were putting their life in jeopardy by refusing to put a silly rag over your mouth and nose.<\/p>\n<p>And \u200bthey didn\u2019t stop the spread of \u2064the disease, according\u2064 to the Cochrane Study.<\/p>\n<p>But, lo and behold, \u200b\u201cthe experts\u201d are warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-rolling-pandemic-2-0-preparations-cnn-barks-break-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the masks<\/a> might\u200b be coming back thanks to this new variant, according to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/is-masking-coming-back-covid-variants-experts-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>. (Headline\u2062 of its Aug. 25 report: \u201cIs masking coming back? As new COVID variants emerge, here\u2019s what experts say.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the weather out today? If it\u2019s raining, you will\u2063 probably want to bring an umbrella. If you are in an area \u2064where there is an \u200cuptick in airborne respiratory infections like COVID, flu or RSV, you may want to take\u200b extra precautions, such as wearing a\u200b high-quality mask in indoor public spaces,\u201d CBS\u2063 News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook said.<\/p>\n<p>Virologist Paul Duprex also said that people \u201ccan certainly stop it making as many \u200dmutations by stopping \u2064it infecting as many people \u2013 if we block its transmission, if we wear a mask, if we get vaccinated, if we do social distancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pandemic 2.0, baby! Time for the media and a gaggle of\u200d unaccountable public \u200chealth officials to tell you how to live your life \u2014 <em>again<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Except the science \u2014 and remember, we\u2019re all supposed to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dennis-prager-follow-science-masks-leads-somewhere-media-seriously-doesnt-want-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow the science<\/a>\u201d \u2014 is in. No\u200c matter how many variants there were, how serious they\u200c happened to be, the masks \u200ddidn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, they might work for you <em>individually<\/em>. So we\u2019re going to be asked to collectively put them back\u200b on again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u200d looks like Fauci \u2014 and \u201cthe experts\u201d \u2014 are indeed coming back stronger than a 2020 trend, no matter how stupid it may be.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-back-telling-mask-just-says\/\">Fauci Is\u200c Back, And He&#8217;s Telling You to Mask Up Just Because He Says So<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200d Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, like Taylor Swift, returns even stronger than a 2020 trend. Surprisingly, I believed we had finally gotten rid of him. The ex-chief medical adviser, leader of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, and unofficial COVID czar departed in December 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2021331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}