Masks served the political need to “do something”, and they ended up being a way for us to wear our fear on our faces - implied shared suffering. A symbol of our grief at the change COVID gave us. But there was never a reason to think they would help stop an virus that spread via aerosol.
As others have observed, the real injury will be when the CDC that has proven to be a political toy has to try to intervene if we see something even more nasty than COVID.
It wasn’t only Dr. Fauci. Miller subjects the CDC and its claims about masking to strict scrutiny and finds them wanting. The amount of cherry-picked data and flawed methodologies embraced in CDC studies of masking is astounding. None of the 15 studies the CDC used to justify its claims that masks work are randomized controlled studies, considered the standard for such research. Worse, when randomized controlled studies that were conducted during the pandemic did not bolster the CDC’s masking message, they were downplayed or ignored.
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