Posted on 02/09/2022 9:26:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Twisting the truth is our current Federal Government’s modus operandi. Look no further than White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s latest political gymnastics when she claimed, “We’ve not been pro-lockdown – most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President.”
While technically true (most actual lockdowns happened in America under Trump), the reality is that Biden praised pro-lockdown governors like Andrew Cuomo of NY, deified lockdown advocate Anthony Fauci as “America’s scientist,” and insisted throughout his 2020 campaign that lockdowns were necessary.
While our government officials may struggle with cognitive dissonance, Americans are taking notice as their trust in the federal government continues to plummet.
The Biden Administration aside, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) approach to the pandemic has been concerning, especially regarding its ability to offer reliable information to the public. The latest example of this trend occurs in a misleading infographic, which if taken at face value, conveys that wearing a cloth mask provides 56 percent more protection than no mask at all.
The CDC cites the results from its new study on masking, which states that “wearing a cloth mask (aOR = 0.44; 95 percent CI = 0.17–1.17) was associated with lower adjusted odds of a positive test compared with never wearing a face covering but was not statistically significant.” If one looks closely at the infographic, the hash symbol at the bottom indicates the results for cloth masks are “not statistically significant.”
Even though the CDC is technically honest in reporting this fact on the infographic, the situation still raises the question: if it admits in fine print that its infographic isn’t backed by reliable evidence, then why are they publishing it in the first place? Moreover, if the evidence suggests that wearing cloth masks has no statistically significant relationship with reducing the probability of testing positive, then why does the CDC continue to say we should use them?
Vinay Prasad, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, echoes this sentiment, scrutinizing the rigor of the study itself. According to Prasad, there are multiple issues with how the researchers conducted the survey, including significant response and selection bias. In a Cato working paper, Prasad, along with other researchers, highlights the main concern with broadcasting flawed research:
Although weak evidence should not preclude precautionary actions in the face of unprecedented events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, ethical principles require that the strength of the evidence and best estimates of amount of benefit [should] be truthfully communicated to the public.
Unfortunately, this behavior is typical for the CDC, which has debased itself to the level of partisan media outlets that spin the results of medical studies. Admitting that cloth masks don’t reduce the odds of testing positive would disrupt its existing narrative and result in political uproar against the CDC from the public and other highly influential groups, such as the Biden Administration and teachers unions.
Relenting on its stance will further erode the CDC’s recommendation for universal masking in schools, enraging teachers unions, who we know influenced its school mask guidance.
Despite the growing evidence against masks, the CDC is intent on maintaining its position on school masking.
According to its official mission, the CDC “serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.” Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been many cases in which the CDC stepped outside its mission.
We must not forget the eviction moratorium. On September 4th, 2020, the CDC, citing the need to control Covid, stopped landlords from evicting tenants. The data backing this argument was shoddy, and the moratorium was later deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
In addition to controlling landlords, the CDC also ignores research that opposes its position on the robustness of natural immunity. According to famed Johns Hopkins researcher Marty Makary, the results of the latest data on reinfection rates demonstrated that “natural immunity was 2.8 times as effective in preventing hospitalization and 3.3 to 4.7 times as effective in preventing Covid infection compared with vaccination.”
Yet, the CDC spun the truth when reporting on this study. They claimed “vaccination remains the safest strategy for averting future SARS-CoV-2 infections, hospitalizations, long-term sequelae, and death,” based on a comparison between hybrid immunity (combination of prior infection and vaccination) with natural immunity. They did not clarify what the study’s results actually show: that vaccination does not significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization for those with natural immunity.
But why would they? These findings directly dispute the position held by the CDC and the Biden administration. The current CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will not budge on her position either. In October of 2020, she signed the John Snow Memorandum, which still states “there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection.”
The American people can sense the lies. Their trust in the CDC is falling. Its lack of transparency damages public health in the long run, hindering its ability to provide effective messaging during future health emergencies.
If they want the trust of the American people, they have to work harder to regain it. Unfortunately, the CDC is beholden to special interest groups, which leads it to renege on its mission of providing accurate public health recommendations. The CDC faces incentives that prompt it to follow the concentrated interests of special interest groups at the cost of providing reliable information to the public.
The CDC’s actions have completely bewildered the American people. If it continues down this road, it will only erode what little credibility it has left.
Well, most of here at FR knew it was all lies from day one.
The CDC, WHO, the medical profession and the FJB administration have destroyed any and all credibility that any of em may have ever had with the People at this point. They have NONE; not a modicum of respect and/or credibility. They’re as useless as teats on a boar hog right now.
Even another defeat of Corn Pope can save em. /s
The CDC spreads lies on the efficacy and safety of the injections as well.
Government is force and coercion. Science is reason and logic. The twain can never meet. CDC and FDA are bureaucrats looking to increase their power and control. Bureaucrats are never looking out for the public’s wellbeing.
Trust in the CDC is falling? It’s bottomed out and not likely coming back.
My trust in media ..gone
Government..gone
Science..gone
Doctors...gone
In anything..gone.
The lies..have destroyed trust
You will know it has become too hot politically when the airlines stop requiring masks. Until then, some group opposed to the open functioning of Western economies is still making gains - and retains control over our political actors.
Is failing? My trust of every single establishment has gone to single digits at best.
Medical, Government, Law Enforcement, most churches, schools. All of them are either power hungry buffoons or complete pansies.
Same here.
Our trust in all tentacles of the fed and their MSM and Billionaire partners are completely gone!
From: Retain Mike Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:26 PM To: keri.lopez@redmondschools.org Subject: Mask Mandate
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) proclaimed its latest policy about masks and our governor mandated wearing by children as school began.
However, the best science the CDC could provide was uncontrolled studies highlighting first such groups as 139 hairdresser clients, 382 sailors on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, 124 Beijing households, and 839 Thailand residents subject to contact tracing. All results came from observation followed by personal judgement, and none result from the mathematical disciplines used to rigorously evaluate complex environments. In the same article the CDC disparaged the 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Denmark involving 4,862 participants, which found no benefit to wearing masks to prevent infection.
The disciplines of a RCT divides participants into different groups on a randomized basis. Random assignment means that factors not specifically controlled can cancel each other out by appearing equally in both groups. One group receives the treatment (which in this case was the mask) and the other group does not. Researchers can isolate the one variable and are not able to introduce biases to produce a preferred outcome.
RCT’s are considered the highest standard for this type of research. Therefore, the most reasonable approach for the CDC would have been to consider this study as a benchmark against which others would be evaluated, including studies from other countries which found masks ineffective and even harmful.
The above represents an especially valid approach, since the first four combined citations from their May scientific brief had less than half the participants of the Danish study. The proposed approach is especially valid also because the CDC dismissed the study for involving only .001 of Denmark’s population. At the same time polls predicting the decisions of 150,000,000 voters in a national election were determined by less than1,500 participants or less than .00001.
Do Masks Work?,
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/
Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.htm
Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm
Surgeon Shows CDC Top Evidence On Why Wearing Masks Work
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3988508/posts
Face masks for children: Both ineffective and dangerous
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/face-masks-children-ineffective-dangerous/
All the tragic potential harms of face masks
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/tragic-potential-harms-face-masks/
Kids Full of Life, Adults Obsessed with Death: The insanity of masking children—by the numbers
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4035214/posts
https://www.city-journal.org/school-mask-mandates-are-unnecessary?wallit_nosession=1
Do masks work?
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence
Biden Stands by CDC Mask Mandates Even as Democrat Governors Revolt
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/09/biden-stands-by-cdc-mask-mandates-even-as-democrat-governors-revolt/
The Democrat/Globalists were using these government ordered coercive COVID 19 mandates as a test run. They have leaned much. They have learned how to use various government agencies to impose and enforce mandates. They now know how resistance materializes , grows and how best to stifle it. Soon they will try imposing all sorts of mandates related to their globalist and “climate change” anti freedom agenda. They will try to impose vegetarianism, electric cars only, abolish middle class access to private schools, no wood burning, no more single family homes, tax all private property exorbitantly and of course monitor and punish free speech and free thought.
CDC Spreads Misinformation on Masking, Not Science: The American people can sense the lies. Their trust in the CDC is falling...
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DHS stat !
CDC is
undermining our faith in government,
so according to DHS
that makes CDC domestic terrorists
right ?
Why hasn’t DHS charged CDC with domestic terrorism ?
Now DHS has undermined my faith in DHS, which has undermined my faith in government , cuz DHS is government.
DHS needs to charge DHS for domestic terrorism.
DHS stat !
I’ve never trusted a “medical” organization which says the high rates of disease, drug/alcohol abuse and suicide among homosexuals is caused by “homophobia.”
I certainly did. Absurdity from the get go. Masking and quarantining is not done in the healthy general population
The science of the CDC is now sh*t, literally, studying sh*t is what provides them their direction.
How can it get less than zero?
Well...early on there seemed to be a 50/50 battle between us reasonable types and the COVID fear porn pushers. Eventually, some saw the light, but I think a fair number actually left FR.
The essence of CDC is the third word in its name.
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