While we turned to face masks as easy-to-practice tools early in the fight against the novel coronavirus, folks at the Centers for Disease Control were . . . lying about said technology.
“In a recently obtained letter (pdf) sent in November 2021 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” writes Megan Redshaw in The Epoch Times, “top epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and seven colleagues informed the agency it was promoting flawed data and excluding data that did not reinforce their narrative.”
By over-stating the effectiveness of masks, the CDC “would ‘damage the credibility of science,’ endanger public trust by ‘misrepresenting the evidence,’ and give the public ‘false expectations’ masking would protect them from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.”
While Osterholm and others expressed alarm that the CDC’s selection of study citations was more conclusion-oriented than process- (science-) oriented — “focus[ing] on the strengths of studies that support its conclusions while ignoring their shortcomings of study design” — we the patients (and doctors) were continually distracted from best practices during a pandemic.
Meanwhile, millions died.
The scientists’ letter was uncovered via aFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) process initiated by The Functional Government Initiative, which in making it public stated, “The story of official masking guidance should trouble the American public. Recall that Dr. Fauci at first said there was no need for masks. Then cloth masks were all that stood between you and COVID. But as evidence against cloth
Well, the rest is history: Big Government Science masking the truth.
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We’re not going to see the perpetrators brought to justice. A huge share of the general public will rôle-play as if not recognizing that dishonesty and incompetence drove policy. The leadership and most officials of the Republican Party are interested in justice only to the extent that it helps them politically, and are incredibly short-sighted even in their opportunism. The front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination was the head of the Executive Branch when most of these rotten policies were put into effect in the first place.
It was never about health. It was, and still is, about control.
From an engineering standpoint, an N95 mask is 50% effective. Which is amazing when one considers that the pore diameter of an N95 mask is 30 microns. While a Covid virus is about 300 nano-microns, 1/100 the size of the openings. An easy illustration of the virus getting through would be to use an N95 mask in the presence of cigarette smoke, which has similarly sized components. If you can smell nicotine, then you will also be breathing viruses. Which you can. Every time.
There were too many lies to count. These weren’t honest mistakes. They were fabrications. Now they want to bring masks back and warn us of another COVID strike. Let them go ahead and admit all their lies. It won’t make any difference. The damage has been done. I will never believe a word they say, ever again.