Posted on 02/25/2021 1:18:34 PM PST by lightman
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said Wednesday that given the relative lack of certainty about the protection provided by COVID-19 vaccines, it is better to go overboard on masking up than not do enough to help curb the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Collins made the remarks in an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” in which he said getting a vaccine may provide people with a false sense of security.
He said that, even after people have been vaccinated, “we don’t know exactly whether it’s still possible for that person to carry the virus. It might be, and until we have better data, then masks are still important.”
Wearing masks helps minimize asymptomatic spread more generally, he said, as people may be infected with the virus but have no idea as they have no symptoms.
“The only way we’re going to keep such individuals, and it might be any of us, from spreading this is if they’re careful about wearing that mask. It’s not about protecting themselves as much as it is protecting everybody from them,” Collins said.
He acknowledged the drudgery of mask-wearing, but urged people to do it regardless of their level of comfort.
“I know people are tired of them. I’m tired of them too,” he said. “But, at the same time, it’s a simple measure. It’s a life-saving medical device. Just put it on. Even if we’re overdoing it, that’s fine. Better that than run the risk of infecting more people.”
The COVID-19 vaccines are still relatively new, and researchers have not yet been able to study how long the protection they provide can last, Collins wrote in a recent blog post that explored the issue of how protective a single dose is. Health officials recommend that, with both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines, people get two doses. But a recent study that Collins cited suggests that people who have already had COVID-19 may have an immune response following a single dose that is equal to—or even greater—than after the second dose. The findings are preliminary and the study has not yet been peer reviewed.
“For now, the most important thing all of us can all do to get this terrible pandemic under control is to follow the 3 W’s—wear our masks, wash our hands, watch our distance from others—and roll up our sleeves for the vaccine as soon as it’s available to us,” Collins wrote.
Earlier this week, in an interview with “Axios on HBO,” Collins lamented that mask-wearing had become a political hot potato.
“The evidence was pretty compelling by last March or April that uniform wearing of masks would reduce transmission of this disease. And yet, with a variety of messages through a variety of sources, mask wearing became a statement about your political party or an invasion of your personal freedom,” he said.
A mask “is nothing more than a life-saving medical device, and yet it got categorized in all sorts of other ways that were not factual, not scientific and, frankly, dangerous,” he said, arguing that politicization of mask-wearing may have accelerated the spread of COVID-19 and so contributed to the deaths of “tens of thousands.”
I think there was single day for me this entire pandemic where I got a little concerned about it. But this whole year reminds me of the global warming panic. When it first started it struck me as a whole lot of bull. And is it went along I was even more sure it was bull even as the world decided it was increasingly worth worrying about.
I mean did we even get the logistical nightmares in hospitals they told us about?
Yes, but the maskerbators get very upset when they see us without them.
Personally, idgaf. This silliness needs to stop.
maskerbators
+1
Thanks for enriching the vocabulary of ridicule.
Seriously.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots need to ask their local and state government, institutionally indoctrinated "leaders" why they are not reminding us that we are not obligated to obey the dictates of non-elected federal bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies.
The only thing that the referenced federal bureaucrat needs to be telling us is that independent research labs in each state (that's what you call diversity) are investigating the following disturbing concerns about wearing masks.
Alarming COVID-19 study finds virus survives on fabric for 3 days (2.24.21)
85 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Contracted Virus Despite ‘Always’ or ‘Often’ Wearing a Mask (10.12.20)
Masks ‘don’t work,’ are damaging health and are being used to control population: Doctors panel (2.19.21)
The Truth Revealed About the Deadly 1918 Spanish Flu: It Was Actually Bacterial Pneumonia (5.28.19)
Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing (10.6.20)
Bacterial Pneumonia and Other Health Risks of Wearing Masks Alarm Doctors (10.9.20)
Doctor uses Vape Aerosols to show just how much masks don't work (2:55 min; 9.6.20)
They already have euthanized a woman who decided it was pointless to live sheltered for a year or more than see friends and family in a home.
They “protected her” from the risk of possibly dying of covid or at least having a nasty bit of nausea by deliberately killing her.
The best science indicates asymptomatic spread accounts for 0.7% of the spread. Even if masks worked, isn’t that emphasized the most unlikely form of spread?
How about, “Stay home if you feel slightly sick”. And let everyone else work.
FREEDOM is another word for “Before Covid”.
One of the long term learnings/lifestyle changes that should come out of COVID is to stop incentivizing working and going to school when sick.
NO MORE “perfect attendance awards”
NO MORE combined PTO.
NO MORE dinging evaluations for using sick days.
For most people, the prevention has become worse than the disease. Collins ignores the facts that: (1) for a huge majority, COVID is far from serious; and (2)the commonly used mask hinders breathing and does not keep out viruses. Anyone who believes otherwise is free to mask or double mask. But leave the rest of us alone.
I hadn’t heard of that situation.
It has become hijab.
If people worn masks as required in hospitals. EVERY time you touch a mask and every 10 minutes you have to change it out. I would cost thousands a month
Has anyone ever heard of pneumonia (filthy masks), COPD, asthma???
Over doing is better than under doing it? Is this what 20+ years of education and decades of experience gives you? A wives tale on how to protect yourself and others? Why not spread butter on a burn, also sort of makes sense, don’t it?
There are real dangers to the mask itself.
Thanks for the comments...
Simpler still get a mask that actually filters out 99.97% of particles & aerosols ,is a painters respirator with HEPA filters & a pair of safety goggles. That way you protect your airway & eyes from contact with the virus laden aerosols and the filters are detachable so the face price can be washed !
Not a maskabator just saying a proper mask properly fitted& worn correctly will protect your respiratory tract from particles &aerosols.The pieces of trash being foisted on we the people by our e!ected government class basically
A are trash & not really worth using. But the politicians know this & could care less.
So get a surplus gas mask that will filter out particles & aerosols and seal off your face & protect from asshole repellant aka bear mace!😳
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