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Fauci on masking #

2019:

• "Wear a mask?" "No, no, no!" 📺

2020:

• "Should I wear a mask?" "Oh, absolutely not." 📺

• "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask." 📺

• "A mask is more appropriate for someone who is infected." 📺

• "Do we need a national [mask] mandate?" "Yes." 📺

2023:

• "...[A]s a whole, the data are less strong." 📺

Sources:

1. Bloomberg: The David Rubenstein Show: Anthony Fauci, May 22, 2019

2. Spectrum News: Disease Expert: Flu a Bigger Risk in the US Than Coronavirus

3. 60 Minutes: March 2020: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Dr Jon LaPook about Covid-19 (See also Preventing coronavirus: Should you wear a face mask?)

4. Spectrum News: Disease Expert: Flu a Bigger Risk in the US Than Coronavirus

5. CNBC: Anthony Fauci on The News with Shepard Smith, October 28, 2020 (See also Fauci voices support for national mask mandate)

6. CNN: Dr. Fauci responds to study that says masks didn't work

Related:

• 2020:

  • USA Today: Top disease official: Risk of coronavirus in USA is 'minuscule'; skip mask and wash hands - "Fauci doesn't want people to worry about coronavirus, the danger of which is 'just minuscule.'"

  • NBC: Do you need a mask? The science hasn't changed, but public guidance might - "Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been outspoken against healthy people wearing masks or other coverings in public. '@WHO @CDCgov and my office have consistently recommended against the general public wearing masks as there is scant or conflicting evidence they benefit individual wearers in a meaningful way,' Adams wrote on Twitter."

  • MarketWatch: U.S. health officials say Americans shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent coronavirus — here are 3 other reasons not to wear them

  • Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at University of Minnesota: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data by Dr. Brosseau ("a national expert on respiratory protection and infectious diseases") and Dr. Sietsema ("an expert on respiratory protection")

• 2021:

  • City Journal: Do Masks Work? A review of the evidence

  • FEE: Fauci’s Mask Flip-Flop, Explained (by Economics)

  • Independent: 1.6 billion disposable masks entered the ocean in 2020 and will take 450 years to biodegrade - "Waste from throwaway masks created a mass of plastic waste around 7 per cent of the size of the Great Garbage Plastic Patch"

  • Brownstone: More than 170 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

  • "I have never lied."

• 2022:

  • City Journal: Masks Still Don’t Work - "More than two years on, the best scientific evidence says that masks don’t stop Covid—and public health officials continue to ignore it."

• 2023:

  • New York Times: The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?

  • Reason: Masks Make 'Little or No Difference' on COVID-19, Flu Rates: New Study

  • The Atlantic: A New Turn in the Fight Over Masks

  • CNN: Mask study author: 'More likely than not they don't work'

  • South China Morning Post: Maskless Joe Biden laughs off pandemic guidance despite first lady having Covid

  • USA Today: 'Don't tell them I didn't have it on': Biden flaunts not wearing mask after COVID exposure

  • Politico: Biden casts off his mask

/misc | Sep 18, 2023

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