Posted on 03/26/2023 9:23:23 AM PDT by dennisw
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeynep_Tufekci
But alas, the pro-mask establishment responded with a trump card of their own: a New York Times op-ed by sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work, highlighting a statement of clarification from Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser, that the review’s conclusion had been “open to misinterpretation, for which we apologize.”
This new trump card was a disaster for mask opponents—the proverbial queen of spades—and it quickly went viral among mask devotees, newly reassured in the righteousness of their talismans. Though the title was a lie—and contradicted by the text of the op-ed itself—as was widely known in the age of “the science,” an op-ed from Zeynep, with her preternatural charisma, was worth decades of scientific evidence. Soon, news about the Cochrane review, and the years of meticulously-collected data and evidence it represented, was drowned out by mainstream headlines about Soares-Weiser’s little statement of clarification.
Yet Zeynep’s op-ed brought new attention to a question that’s been a bit of a mystery since COVID began. Where exactly did all these mask mandates come from? Why did the US CDC suddenly reverse its longstanding guidance and begin recommending masks for the first time in modern history in April 2020?
As it turns out, in a role that Zeynep failed to disclose in her op-ed, it was Zeynep herself and her colleague Jeremy Howard who’d been the deciding factor in initiating that reversal in the CDC’s longstanding guidance on masking. The story of how they did it, and of Zeynep’s larger role in the COVID saga, goes much deeper than her recent op-ed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeynep_Tufekci
Ain’t That Tough Enough?
Another named Zeynep has no right to dictate anything in this country.
“Another named Zeynep has no right to dictate anything in this country.”
Born in Istanbul. The bllsht artist from Istanbul. She should have stayed in Turkey. Where it’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Look at this high paying gig she hauled down ——
“A professor at Columbia University, she also writes as a columnist for The New York Times.”
Columbia U... the gift that keeps on giving. They gave us that poison pill Obama, too, did they not?
These aholes come to America, prosper, then do their damndest to make it like the s-hole they can from
Look here...
As Covid was about to spring from China, this reporter Zeynep Tufekci was there in Hong Kong during the anti-PRC protests there, writing for The Atlantic.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3794442/posts
For later reading of the original.
No opinions yet.
Note, however, that WHATEVER and WHENEVER the NYTimes prints “a new study finds”, that conclusion (that extrapolation and those exaggerations) IS NOW REPEATED endlessly by the democrat party’s many mininions in their national press corpse without criticism nor correction.
You left out the Billionaire Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker and his Family Companies that owned the largest Mask and PPE manufacturing plants in China.
Priztker made millions off the Blue State Mask Mandates - there are still warehouses in Illinois with 1000’s of pallets of Masks and PPE ready to be used for the next scamdemic.
Crap like this is why the CDC, and a host of other 3-letter clowns how agencies, have absolutely NO credibility...nada, none!!! They’re finished. They might as well close up shop and go home. Nobody in the right mind believes a single word coming out of these vile jerks anymore.
I have always lived by the rule “Never trust someone named Zynep.”
Zeynep. Damned auto correct.
There was no confusion and no misinterpretation. It was a know(able) lie to anyone not taking the bribe. It was done on purpose, just like the lockdowns were designed to destroy the small businesses owned primarily by conservative voters.
Anyone suggesting “forgive&forget” needs some spit in the face. They are evil.
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