Posted on 05/10/2021 10:39:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Anthony Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd that it’s “possible” mask mandates could continue indefinitely in order to reduce seasonal flu infections.
During his appearance on Meet The Press, Fauci was asked when Americans could take the masks off given that the CDC is now advising vaccinated Americans that they can remove the face coverings when outside.
“At what point, if vaccinated people get together, do you take the mask off? Are masks going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?” Todd asked Fauci.
“You know, that’s quite possible, I think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks, clearly if you look at the data, diminished respiratory diseases. We’ve had practically a nonexistent flu season this year, merely because people were doing the kinds of public health things that were directed predominantly against COVID-19,” responded Fauci.
While COVID-19 lockdown advocates have asserted that mask wearing and social distancing made the flu virtually disappear, other health experts have questioned the legitimacy of this claim, suggesting that flu cases were merely being counted as COVID-19 cases to inflate the number.
Back in January, epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski stated, “There may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the ‘presumed COVID-19’ category of people who have COVID-19 symptoms (which Influenza symptoms can be mistaken for), but are not tested for SARS RNA.”
“People know everybody is wearing masks and distancing, and so people want to come up with things that are good about it,” he added.
Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician who regularly appears on CNN, also previously said that Americans should wear masks and socially distance every winter in order to reduce flu hospitalizations and deaths.
As we previously highlighted, Dr. David Thunder Ph.D warned that governments now have the pretext to suspend liberties on a whim and will abuse that power again “whenever there’s a winter resurgence in respiratory viruses.”
As Tom Pappert points out, Fauci contradicted one of his own claims elsewhere within the same interview.
“The very next question appeared to exemplify an inconsistency, as Chuck Todd proceeded to ask if Americans could finally let their guard down, as he claims they did in May of 2020. Todd’s question would seem to indicate that 2020 saw the spread of COVID-19 because of the lack of adherence to COVID-19 precautions like social distancing, lockdowns, and mask wearing, only seconds after Fauci suggested that the 2020 flu season was greatly diminished because of social distancing, lockdowns, and mask wearing.”
in another dictate, he said vaccine every year is coming our way.
Shove it, Fauci.
The media won’t ask him about the millions of $$$ he gave to the Wuhan lab. Disgusting.
Fah Q fauxcheeze.
No one knows if the masks work and there's more evidence that they don't.
Fauci couldn’t sell me ice cream in a heat wave.
He lacks trustworthiness.
Sideways without any K-Y jelly.
I got the damn flu anyway, it sucked. Your phaggot ass masks didn’t protect me.
Think again, Butthead.
They are going to make this a permanent thing, just watch................
That’s a big, ol’ F YOU.
This midget fascist need to be ignored.
I would be willing to bet that 96 out of 100 Americans could not tell you what “gain of function” research is.
I would be willing to bet the same number have little to no idea that Fauci and his bureaucrat cronies funded research into making Coronaviruses more deadly when our intelligence agencies knew that China included Coronaviruses in their biological warfare plans.
You really cannot make this stuff up. Too bad we will not get answers anytime soon.
I got a flu shot and a pneumonia shot last year, April, when I had my quad by-pass in the hospital. Haven’t had so much as a sniffle since...............
Hey Fauci..I got two words for you..GET BENT!! So sick of this gigantic turd..he was involved with the Wuhan lab, he needs to be in JAIL for what he did..I believe he knew from the beginning what China was working on and was happy to oblige
“Anthony Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd that it’s “possible” mask mandates could continue indefinitely...”
Uuh, I don’t think so Jack!
“I think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks, “
No Tony we haven’t gotten used to it.
You won’t tell us if we will or will not wear a mask.
Leave us alone, learn how to code.
The masks remind me of berets which were worn by “beatniks” back around the 1950s to signify their hip social philosophy and for no practical purpose otherwise. Or bell bottom jeans in the 1960s and early 70s.
Some will want to continue wearing them as a sort of political symbol and for no really practical purpose otherwise. Forcing everyone else to wear one makes that ideology more powerful (and or loathsome).
I think if there isn’t a natural extinction of mask wearing then what will likely happen is that more conservative parts of the country will mandate non-wearing of masks without a doctor’s certificate and there will be a certain amount of confrontation as die-hard socialists refuse to give up.
As to the effects on our health, very mixed at best and possibly worse than useless.
“We’ve had practically a nonexistent flu season this year...”
That’s because all the flu was counted as Covid.
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