We’re old enough to remember when mobs would form around the lone person in the grocery store who had dared go out without a mask on. Masks were mandated for 2-year-olds. And then Dr. Leana Wen on CNN in December 2021 that cloth masks were “little more than facial decoration.” She walked that back a bit, saying what she meant is that people should be wearing three-ply surgical masks. Then, in August 2022, Wen described her personal 180 on masking her own young children at school.
Forget about Wen and forget about 2022. Now we’re facing a new variant that’s compelled President Joe Biden to enact one of those “hysterically xenophobic” travel restrictions from China. And Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel tells NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell that his only advice to Americans is to wear a mask — a “really high quality” N95 mask.
Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Covid vaccines don’t work against new variant, travel bans and testing are ”delaying tactics”; only thing that reliably works are “really high quality masks.” pic.twitter.com/54E5ilcBTH
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 2, 2023
"I am desperate to stay relevant and appear in control."
— Emma Woodhouse (@EWoodhouse7) January 2, 2023
The only type of mask that protects people against viruses would be a self contained breathing apparatus. Everything else is just for show.
— Mark Reeder (@MarkReederphoto) January 2, 2023
They don't work.
— Stephen Lundy (@StephenPLundy) January 2, 2023
This dude is the biggest clown going at the moment
— Woke Zombie 🇺🇸😊 (@AWokeZombie) January 2, 2023
And I am sure he has the control group based studies that proof this wildly false and innacturate claim right? Nope.. he doesn't
— Ryan Steele (@wcrtchicago) January 2, 2023
If you can smell through it, it doesn’t work. Single use only, professionally fitted & SEALED. If it works,it’s a biohazard when you remove it.If you wash your towels 3 times a day, a fitted professionally sealed mask may work for you. For the rest of us, we use our immune system
— Lisa Paje (@PajekLisa_) January 2, 2023
Rahm "Never let a crisis go to waste" Emanuel's brother. 🙄 What a tool.
— BenuBird (@benubird) January 2, 2023
He needs to prove it. He made the assertion. Scientific method requires that he now prove it. If not, it gets discarded unceremoniously. So prove it or shut up and get out of the way for a real scientist to take the floor.
— Dave Stevens (@DaveSte71985295) January 2, 2023
“Experts” are still claiming, in 2023, that “high quality masks” will stop COVID, when a recent randomized controlled trial confirmed there was no difference in infection rates between those who wore N95’s and those who wore “lower quality” masks
Because none of them work https://t.co/VCndesHUXZ
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) January 2, 2023
China practiced “Covid Zero”by locking up citizens for weeks on end!! They sprayed the skies, they have whole units of white hazmat suit enforcers, they forced everyone to get tested everyday before going to work!! They put in place a digital pass system! How’d that go?
— Mike Bieman (@BiemanMike) January 2, 2023
Nice chyron: “CDC reports a new omicron subvariant taking over U.S.” Would that be the same CDC that burned all its credibility?
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Related:
‘Can’t fix stupid’: The Atlantic previews ‘the masks we’ll wear in the next pandemic’ https://t.co/BoTbAAgOnv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 15, 2022
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