Admitting to Lack of COVID Face Mask Evidence, Fauci Wants Us to Wear Them Anyway

Dr. Anthony FauciAP

New York Post

Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that face masks made no difference in the course of the pandemic.

“I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations,” Fauci told CNN’s Michael Smerconish Saturday in a segment flagging a rise in COVID cases nationwide.

Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020 — thanks largely to Fauci, the public face of the nation’s official COVID response.

As the White House’s chief medical adviser, Fauci gave conflicting advice on the efficacy of masking, first saying it was unnecessary for the general public, then that “universal wearing of masks is the most practical way to go.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that they made no difference during the pandemic.

As recently as this May, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that unvaccinated children still should mask up when playing with friends.

But in February, a major study from the Cochrane Library found that wearing them was pointless.

“There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author, said in February.
Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020.AFP via Getty Images

“There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.”

Confronted with Jefferson’s quotes, Fauci backtracked.

“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” he admitted.

“But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals,” they might be protective, he said.

Mask and vaccine mandates have become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential primary.

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9 thoughts on “Admitting to Lack of COVID Face Mask Evidence, Fauci Wants Us to Wear Them Anyway

  1. Why didn’t Fauci just stay in the cave he crawled into after viciously lying all over the place about everything involving Covid? SIGH!!! Here we go AGAIN!!! If people buy into this bullshit..AGAIN, then there really is no hope!!!

    I am not ever wearing a mask; not on a plane (I’m banned from flying anyway), a train, a bus, bicycle, tricycle, not on anything. Any store where masks are required, I refuse to enter. But actually, I wont have to bother about that because since I am so infirm, they are giving me a personal care attendant who is going to take care of ALL my needs; grocery shopping, driving me around to appointments, giving me foot massages the whole nine yards. “About damn time,” I say!!!

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