Posted on 08/09/2021 6:32:19 PM PDT by conservative98
Chief Health Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that "hopefully" making young kids wear face masks won’t have any "lasting negative impact" on them.
During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Dr. Fauci said it’s important to keep an "open mind" about masking after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that unvaccinated children ages 2 and older wear masks and that students wear masks in all K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status, in light of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 delta variant.
"It's not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children," he said. "But you know, what we’re starting to see, Hugh, and I think it's going to unfold even more as the weeks go by, that this virus not only is so extraordinarily transmissible, but we're starting to see pediatric hospitals get more and more younger people and kids not only numerically, but what seems to be more severe disease.
"Now we're tracking that, the CDC is tracking that really very carefully, so it’s going to be a balance that we would feel very badly if we all of a sudden said OK, kids, don't wear masks, then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a very, very strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard," he continued. "But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn't have any lasting negative impact on them."
Hewitt pushed back, citing an editorial Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, titled, "The Case Against Masks for Children," which argues that long-term masking can cause physical and developmental issues in children and that there’s little evidence to back up a mandate.
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Hopefully? A scientist? Hopefully? A public health official. Hopefully?
Herr Doktor Mengele would so amused.
Nasty, evil man.
Dr Fubar hopes his farts won’t have a negative effect on air quality
He should be in jail but the medical community will not speak up...
What are you, a hope denier?
Trust the hope!
/s
His worshippers would not tolerate it either.
Zero credibility. None, nada.
He can blab all he wants, no one cares or believes the useless commie SOB.
Hopefully he can get ice water in Hell
I’m sick of this idiot!!!
Hopefully is now considered science?
My teen daughter started he junior year of high school today. Mandatory indoor masking in CA. No end in sight. No metrics or goalposts stated by the state about when this can end. Two more years maybe, 7 hours a day, in a mask. Her smile hidden; her breathing and talking impacted; no one knows what she looks like. Private Christian school. I’m grateful for the small blessing of in person education but she (and her older brother starting college masked) deserve so much more.
Hopefully? He cares? We need to get rid of this useless guy.
Hopefully, Fauci is exposed for his total involvement in this disaster and it ends his power.
And if it does, I hope they take it out on Dr.Fauci.
That freaky leprechaun has no idea how messed up the children will be. It’ll be bad.
Blah, blah, blah. Where is the data, Dr. Fauci? He’s always blabbering in vague, general terms, but he never offers any hard data.
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