Obviously, if you were sick during covid, you should stay home and isolate. No one disputes that.
But Fauci and other other scumbags who paid their Chinese partners to manufacture covid said that you should wear masks at work or when shopping even if you weren't sick at all. You could have covid but be presymptomatic -- showing no symptoms, but still able to infect others.
Put aside the fact that masks are proven not to work.
If it's not true that you can infect other people if you have covid but are not showing symptoms, then there's no reason at all to wear masks, even if masks worked.
Because if you could only infect people when you show symptoms -- well, if you show symptoms, you stay home and self-isolate. You don't need to wear a mask in public because you're already not in public.
A new study shows that people who are presymptomatic cannot, in fact, spread covid. Or at least, they can't spread it except in "rare" cases.
David Zweig:
The paper, published in the August issue of the journal The Lancet Microbe, found that infected people presymptomatically--that is before they developed symptoms--very rarely had the ability to infect others.
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What this means is that compelling people without Covid symptoms to wear masks in any number of environments--including, most controversially, schools--along with quarantining healthy people, closing schools, and other social distancing measures likely yielded far, far less societal benefit than we were told.
Neither finding has received much attention (outside of this newsletter), though both studies employed methods that are more reliable than those that supported the notion that "silent spread" fueled the pandemic.
No kidding, huh? What a surprise.
The Lancet paper detailed the results of what is known as a challenge study, where participants were purposefully infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid) and then monitored in a controlled environment. The researchers, from Imperial College London, then tested for presence of the virus on the inside of masks worn by participants, their hands, and the air and surfaces in individual rooms that participants were kept in for at least 14 days. The authors found that just 7% of emissions into the air and environment from infected participants occurred before the first reported symptom.
This is an arresting finding, considering that it contradicts the prevailing wisdom among health professionals, authorities, and the public. Modeling studies--which are conjecture, based on subjective inputs from the modelers--as early as May 2020 had estimated that roughly 30% to 50% of community transmission occurred before reported symptoms. This set the narrative for the pandemic, and was used as a justification for much of the policies imposed on the public.
But wait, there's more!
The Imperial College study bolsters the findings from a little-known study that I reported on earlier this year. That study, by researchers at Stanford University, assessed the results of a unique PCR test they developed that was able to determine not just whether a person was infected--which is what a standard PCR test does--but also whether they were capable of infecting other people. From their special test, the researchers found a remarkable 96 percent of people who were PCR-positive but without symptoms were not infectious.
Fauci was confronted with an older study, from the Cochrane review, released in February 2023. That study said that masks mandates did not work, period.
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.
In this file photo bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 6, 2020 in New YorkFederal 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.
Dr. Anthony FauciAs the White House's chief medical adviser, Fauci gave 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."Getty Images
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"But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals," they might be protective, he said.
Fauci is being called a fraud.
I can think of other things to call him.
Fauci's claiming that while it has been proven that masking does not slow the spread of covid in the population at large, it may work in "individual cases."
What? If it doesn't work for the mass of people why would it work for individuals, which is of course that the mass is made up of?
But this is what this malignant midget troll, this Miguelito Loveless of gene-splicing, is down to now.
Social media erupted after Dr. Anthony Fauci was confronted by a CNN host with a study showing face masks made little to no difference in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conservative critics pounced on the former White House chief medical adviser after he acknowledged the masking study during the Saturday segment -- while continuing to insist that, at an individual level, other research shows face coverings are effective at curtailing the spread of the virus.
"When you're talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong," Fauci admitted to CNN's Michael Smerconish.
"But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals," they might be protective, he said.
Fauci also stressed during the interview that at the moment "we're not talking about forcing anybody to do anything."
"Fauci admits that masks don't work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge," Sen. Ran Paul (R-Ky.), a political nemesis of Fauci, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
"This is amazing. According to Fauci, masks work at the individual level but not on the pandemic level. Makes sense," TRIGGERnometry podcast co-host Konstantin Kisin
Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci previously emphasized that he did not impose any mask mandates, but merely made recommendations to the public based on the science.
"Holy s***t @cnn just directly confronted Dr. Fauci on air with bullet proof scientific evidence that masks don't work at all. It only took three years, but finally!" Outkick host Clay Travis wrote.
"Fauci confronted with most definitive data analysis possible that masks make ZERO difference against Covid. Not a little, not slight- Zero. And he just mutters some numerical illiteracy bulls--t about 'individual protection.' He's a fraud and a liar," conservative commentator Buck Sexton said.
"It's really hard to assume Fauci's disastrous 'mistakes' were in good faith when he refuses to acknowledge obvious facts that don't require a PhD to decipher. It looks a lot more like 'TRUST THE SCIENCE!' only applies when it suits Fauci's personal or political narrative," former senior White House and US Intelligence Community official Cliff Sims said.