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Fauci accused of covertly going to CIA headquarters to ‘influence’ COVID-19 origins probe

Anthony Fauci was escorted to CIA headquarters “without a record of entry” to “influence” the agency’s COVID-19 origins investigation, according to
allegations brought to light Tuesday by Congress’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In addition to letting China off the hook for the deaths of millions of Americans, the zoonotic origins theory preferred by Fauci and entertained by those he influenced would indicate that the funding provided to the Wuhan coronavirus lab by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under Fauci’s watch was not ultimately an investment in global devastation.

The accusation raised Tuesday by the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), comes just weeks after a CIA whistleblower
accused the agency of bribing six analysts on its COVID Discovery Team to reject the theory that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

What’s the background?

Federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
revealed earlier this year that the NIAID, under former director Fauci, funded dangerous experiments on coronaviruses at the WIV in China’s Hubei province.

Millions among the dollars funneled from Fauci’s agency to the WIV were mediated by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, whose subcontractor Ben Hu — the lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses — was among the
patients zero at the lab and ostensibly among the very first infected in the world.

Despite the nature of the gain-of-function research on coronaviruses conducted at the WIV, past concerns about lab security, the geography of the virus’ early spread, and multiple other clues, Fauci stressed that the virus killing off vulnerable populations at home was likely not man-made but the result of a trans-species jump.

The former NIAID director apparently went to great lengths to convince others of this narrative.

Congressional investigators
indicated in March that Fauci commissioned, edited, and gave final approval to the impactful March 2020 study published in the journal Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2” — an oft-cited study whose authors expressed concerns in private about the “sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release,” making clear that their cause was “political.”

Fauci repeatedly referenced this paper on the national stage, including once from the White House podium, to bolster the zoonotic origins theory.

With the weight of this study in an esteemed journal behind him and his hand in its fabrication hidden, Fauci
told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in March 2020 that COVID-19 was an animal virus that jumped to a human.

Fauci later
told National Geographic in May 2020 that notwithstanding the concerns privately expressed by other virologists, there was “no scientific evidence” to suggest the virus had come from the Wuhan lab.

It appears Fauci may have secretly advanced his preferred narrative in Langley, Virginia, as well.

Questionable intelligence at the CIA

Wenstrup stated Tuesday, “According to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19.”

“The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters — without a record of entry — and participated in the analysis to ‘influence’ the Agency’s review,” continued the chairman.

In an effort to “ensure the scientific investigative process regarding the origins of COVID-19 was fair, impartial, and free of alternative influence,” Wenstrup is now demanding all documents and communications pertaining to Fauci’s access to CIA facilities and CIA employees, including correspondences between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIAID, and the U.S. Marshals Service, which had been assigned to protect Fauci.

Additionally, the congressional investigators want HHS Special Agent Brett Rowland made available for a “voluntary transcribed interview at a date to be determined.”

In a Sept. 26
letter to HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm, Wenstrup stated, “The American people deserve the truth — to know the origins of the virus and whether there was a concerted effort by public health authorities to suppress the lab leak theory for political or national security purposes.”

It is presently unclear whether Fauci’s supposed secret visit to Langley is directly connected to the CIA’s
alleged efforts to monetarily incentivize CIA analyst to change their position on the virus’ origin.

A senior high-level CIA officer
told congressional investigators earlier this month that following a review, six members of a seven-member COVID Discovery Team determined there was sufficient evidence to make a low-confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab. Only one member allegedly figured zoonosis to be responsible.

The six analysts were bribed to change their position, according to the whistleblower.

Wenstrup and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to CIA Director William Burns requesting documents and communications pertaining to the research team and its interactions with other branches of the government, along with pay and bonus histories of the team’s members.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic asked on X, “What difference does it make to @CIA whether the pandemic originated at a Chinese lab or in nature?”

Early in the pandemic, the U.S. intelligence community
concluded that the virus “was not manmade or genetically modified.”

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has since changed its tune, noting in a
June 2023 report that the intelligence community found “biosafety concerns” at the WIV and determined “genetic engineering” of coronaviruses was in fact taking place at the Chinese military-linked facility.

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Adam Carolla says he’s banned from Howard Stern’s show due to his views on COVID: ‘I was right about everything’

Radio host Adam Carolla said that he’s no longer welcome on “The Howard Stern Show” because of his disagreements with the host regarding COVID-19.

On “The Adam Carolla Show,” the comedian and guest host Teresa Strasser discussed a story about Howard Stern‘s reaction to talk show host Bill Maher. Maher critiqued Stern’s love life on his podcast “Club Random,” which prompted Stern to state that his friendship with Maher was over.

Stern’s reaction stemmed from Maher’s comments that the radio host gushes over his wife too often on his show.

“He goes on about how much he loves his wife, Beth [Stern], which he has been doing on the air for like 10 years,” Maher reportedly remarked. “But we know Howard had this other wife before Beth,” he added.

“Could we just not gush about the person while the other person can still hear it?” Maher said, according to the Huffington Post.

Stern responded to Maher’s comments, “What a sexist thing to say! Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say.”

“I think I’m no longer friends with him,” he added.

“That didn’t seem that harsh,” Carolla said about the anecdote. “I think Howard’s skin’s getting a little thinner as he gets a little older,” he added.

This prompted Strasser to ask Carolla if he had been on Stern’s show in recent months.

“Have you been on his show in a while? You were great on that show!”

“No. I’m no longer welcome on that show because I was right about everything COVID,” Carolla quickly replied. “So it’s important that I be punished for being correct about everything COVID.”

“Were you wrong about anything?” another host asked. “Not COVID-related, nothing, no … you can bring it up,” he remarked.

Carolla was one of the earliest critics of COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns, tweeting in September 2020 that it “turns out the people dying from covid are old or sick or both.”

After facing harsh criticism for his remarks, the comedian stood his ground. “No one appreciates being called a ‘pussy.’ I get it,” he said, according to the Wrap.

“I think the backlash has to do with ostensibly being right in many cases,” he opined. “We’re living in a callous world. You guys wanna f**king close down society, you’re gonna get some callous tweets. That’s how it works.”

Stern recently defended the idea of being called “woke,” saying if woke means “I can’t get behind Trump” or “that I support people who want to be transgender, or I’m for the vaccine — dude, call me woke as you f**king want!”

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Did the CIA BRIBE experts to dismiss COVID lab-leak theory? COVID subcommittee member SPILLS the details.

It’s been almost four years since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, but we still don’t know exactly where the virus came from. Was it really a pathogen spawned in a bat cage? Or did it come from a lab with sinister intentions?

Army Reserve officer, war veteran, doctor, and COVID subcommittee member Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) joins Glenn Beck to discuss this most serious issue.

Wenstrup tells Glenn that when the pandemic began, he began looking into how to effectively treat patients, and during this research, he “discovered that we were actually engaging with China in the lab in Wuhan to create gain-of-function viruses.”

Fast forward three years, and now “we have somebody coming forward as a whistleblower … to both the Intelligence Committee and to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which I chair, and he’s made many allegations,” says Wenstrup.

“The CIA, in trying to figure out whether this came from a lab or from nature, put together a COVID discovery team,” he tells Glenn.

Here were their results:

“Six of the people — they came to the conclusion with some level of confidence that this came from a lab,” Wenstrup explains, “and the senior person, according to these charges, said it came from nature.”

So it was a 6 to 1 vote.

But was that shared with the public? Of course not.

But they didn’t just conceal the findings; they outright lied.

“What they ended up doing at the end of the day [was] releasing to the public and to the Intelligence Community … [that] the CIA was unable to determine” the origins of the virus, explains Wenstrup.

“Well, it sounds like they had a really high number of people who were able to determine,” he says.

Granted Wenstrup’s committee has a responsibility to “follow up on everything to do with the with the pandemic,” it’s now “seeking documents, communications,” and to speak with “Andrew Makridis, who the whistleblower says was the chief operating officer and had a lot to do with constructing this.”

Wenstrup admits that it’s deeply concerning to find out “our own intelligence department is changing things from what people actually did and said to fit a narrative that they want.”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.

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Meta’s Threads blocks COVID-related searches to combat so-called disinformation — health officials slam decision

Meta’s new social media platform, Threads, recently confirmed that it is blocking COVID-related search terms in order to combat disinformation, according to the Washington Post.

Threads, a social media site launched by Mark Zuckerberg’s company in July to compete with X, formerly known as Twitter, has already landed in hot water for censoring search terms that could populate sensitive results.

The Post reported that the platform is intentionally blocking search results for several terms but declined to provide a list. The outlet noted that Threads populates a blank screen when users search for “covid,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines,” and “vaccination.” Additional blocked search terms included “sex” and “porn,” the Post stated.

When using COVID-related search terms, Threads provides users with a pop-up link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Threads told the outlet that the platform plans to temporarily block sensitive searches while it continues to work on its results feature.

“The search functionality temporarily doesn’t provide results for keywords that may show potentially sensitive content,” Threads stated. The company said it will enable complete search functionality “once we are confident in the quality of the results.”

Taylor Lorenz, a Washington Post journalist, criticized Threads for blocking the search terms, calling it “extremely irresponsible.”

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri replied to Lorenz on X, stating, “I hear you, and we’re working to support more searches quickly. We’re trying to learn from last mistakes and believes it’s better to bias towards being careful as we roll out search.”

Health officials torched the social media company for its decision.

Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, told the Post that he was initially excited to utilize the platform’s search feature.

“The decision to censor searches about COVID will make it harder for public health experts and people who work in public health to get out important info to the public about how they can protect themselves,” Tran explained.

Tran claimed that blocking search results “will only leave an information gap that will be filled by misinformation from elsewhere.”

“The best solution is to take proactive steps to elevate multiple trusted sources and address misinformation,” he added.

Julia Doubleday, an outreach director at the nonprofit World Health Network, told the outlet that “social media is a lifeline for patients, literally.”

“Long covid patients have died of organ failure, infections, cardiac events and more, and social media is one place they can share information. Cutting off communication between suffering and disabled patients is cruel in the extreme. It’s indefensible,” Doubleday said.

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Whistleblower claims CIA paid off analysts to reject COVID-19 lab-leak theory: ‘Biggest COVID coverup yet’

The Central Intelligence Agency bribed analysts who concluded the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, a new whistleblower has alleged.

The explosive allegation was disclosed in a letter that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R) sent CIA Director William Burns on Tuesday.

The lawmakers explained that a CIA analyst, described as a “multi-decade, senior-level” official, testified that CIA leaders paid off six agency analysts who had concluded the pandemic originated through a lab leak — animal-to-human transmission.

“According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team (Team). The Team consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise,” the lawmakers wrote. “According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis,” they explained.

“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” the lawmakers said.

The claims are significant because the allegations both contradict and explain a declassified report the director of national intelligence released in June. That report said of the CIA’s investigation:

The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to
determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on
significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.

That report explained the National Intelligence Council and four other intelligence agencies believe COVID originated from animal-to-human transmission, while the Energy Department and FBI believe “a laboratory-associated incident was the most likely cause.”

Turner and Wenstrup, therefore, demanded Burns turn over all documents related to the CIA’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic by Sept. 26.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has relentlessly pursued the truth of the pandemic and the U.S. government’s role in it, called the new whistleblower allegations the “biggest COVID coverup yet.”

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Commentary: The people vs. Anthony Fauci and ‘white coat supremacy’

Dr. Anthony Fauci is concerned that “people will not abide” by the Centers for Disease Control’s recent masking recommendations. For their part, the people have good reason to disregard the recommendations — and Fauci along with them.

After more than 50 years in government and 38 years heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci announced his retirement at the end of 2022. With the 82-year-old still dishing it out, Americans might dial it back a few years.

At various times, Fauci recommended that people wear no masks, then one mask, and then two masks. As the Cochrane study showed in January, masks are more or less useless against COVID-19. In an appearance last week on CNN, Fauci said other studies showed otherwise but failed to name a single one.

Fauci was also a hawk on the vaccines that failed to prevent infection and transmission of COVID. Indeed, Fauci and Joe Biden, both vaccinated and boosted, have tested positive for COVID. The NIAID boss wanted children, the least vulnerable group, to get multiple vaccinations nevertheless.

Fauci funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain-of-function research that makes viruses more lethal and transmissible. The WIV, in turn, received shipments of deadly pathogens courtesy of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, a Chinese national who headed the special pathogens unit at Canada’s National Microbiology Lab. In 2017 and 2018 alone, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the WIV.

Fauci maintained that the virus arose naturally in the wild, which is a matter of speculation, not science. The mysterious virus was able to produce new variants that Fauci said were already here and highly transmissible. And of course, that demanded more vaccinations, masking, distancing, and so forth. Like the alleged natural origin of the virus, none of this was authenticated or replicated by scientists with no ties to the NIAID, the NIH, the CDC, or Big Pharma.

Fauci is on record that he represents science. That is a strange claim for a medical doctor whose biography shows no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology. Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, has said Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” But he was, heading the NIAID from 1984 through 2022.

During that time, Fauci oversaw drug trials on African-American foster children in New York, forcing them to take AZT and other dangerous drugs. For the full story, read “The Real Anthony Fauci” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And as Rebecca Culshaw contends in “The Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All,” fast-track approval for mRNA vaccines was “essentially a massive clinical trial [that] was conducted in real time on the entire population.” The results are still coming in.

Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966, but if he ever practiced medicine, it was only for a short time. In 1968, he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health. The number of COVID patients Fauci has treated is unknown, but a fair estimate would be zero. He’s a bureaucrat, first and foremost, wielding executive-level power but never having to face the voters.

This Lysenko-esque figure is still running his mouth, but the people have little if any reason to heed anything he says. On the other hand, since he’s never been held accountable, Congress has good reason to investigate him. The same goes for the Centers for Disease Control, which has failed at its primary task.

The CDC’s intrepid Epidemic Intelligence Service failed to prevent the “novel coronavirus” from arriving stateside. In early 2020, EIS veteran Nancy Messonnier delivered a series of briefings that faithfully echoed China’s talking points. The EIS, supposedly the nation’s medical CIA, also seems unable to detect the new variants and stop their spread within the country.

People yearning to breathe free and live free should reject the CDC’s mask recommendations. For its part, Congress has good reason to downsize the CDC and NIAID or eliminate them altogether. White coat supremacy is incompatible with a constitutional republic. The struggle against white coat supremacy is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Lloyd Billingsley is the author of “Hollywood Party,” “Barack ’Em Up: A Literary Investigation,” and “Yes I Con: United Fakes of America.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal, FrontPage magazine, and many other publications.

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‘A lot of red flags’: Florida surgeon general advises people to stay away from new COVID-19 vaccine

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said during a press conference on Thursday that people should not receive the updated COVID-19 booster vaccine.

The booster in question has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but it is apparently designed to defend against the BA.2.86 Omicron subvariant of the illness, per Fox News.

Ladapo said that “there’s a new vaccine that’s coming around the corner, a new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and there’s essentially no evidence for it.”

“There’s been no clinical trial done in human beings showing that it benefits people,” he continued.

“There’s been no clinical trial showing that it is a safe product for people — and not only that, but then there are a lot of red flags.”

While addressing specific concerns about the booster, he suggested that the updated vaccine “actually cause cardiac injury in many people.”

However, Lapado urged Floridians to make their own decisions based on their own convictions. He suggested people make decisions based on their “resonance of truth,” instead of relying on “very educated people telling you what you should think.”

“When they try to convince you to be comfortable and agree with things that don’t feel comfortable, [that] don’t feel like things you should agree with, that is a sign, right? That’s a gift,” Lapado said.

Ladapo went on to suggest people take on healthy nutrition habits instead of leaning on updated vaccines.

Last month, the surgeon general condemned the use of COVID masks and a new round of potential lockdowns, writing on X: “What do you call re-imposing mask policies that have been proven ineffective or restarting lockdowns that are known to cause harm? You don’t call it sanity. These terrible policies only work with your cooperation. How about refusing to participate…”

Ladapo’s comments about mask mandates come as the mandates appear to be making a comeback in some parts of the country. The New York City health department suggested that masking up over Labor Day weekend was a “good idea.”

Lionsgate has apparently instituted a mask mandate for certain floors of a California office, and Morris Brown College in Georgia also implemented a mask mandate at the start of the school year.

Florida law has banned businesses, schools, and government entities from implementing such mandates.

Dan Bongino recently posted: “Only morons wear surgical masks as protection against a microscopic airborne virus. Legitimate imbeciles. We’re all laughing at you for falling for this stupidity yet again.”

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THESE are the first places reinstating COVID MASK MANDATES

Surprise, surprise. COVID hysteria is back.

Don’t be shocked if you see “mask required” signs start popping up as we make our way into the fall season.

Some places have already started requiring people to wear masks, even though “masks do not work,” says Dave Rubin.

Who’s leading the charge in the reinstatement of masks, you ask?

Schools, mostly.

One elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, has reinstated a mask mandate for students.

“The damage you are doing, especially to a young person – a third-grader – putting them in this thing; I cannot believe this is where we’re at again,” says Dave.

“They can’t see their friends; they can’t smile; they just bow to the system; they become little cogs in a machine,” he continues, adding that the entire ordeal “is just so evil.”

The University of Michigan has also taken action. According to the school’s new policy, students who test positive for COVID must evacuate their dorms for five days and live in a hotel room or with a relative.

“If you have a kid at a college who’s got COVID, let him spread it with a bunch of young, healthy people, and maybe they’ll have the sniffles for a little bit,” but “don’t send them to Grandma’s house, you morons,” laments Dave, pointing out the obvious flawed logic.

For now, these mandates are mostly within schools, but rest assured you’ll see more and more institutions jump aboard in the days to come. By now we know hysteria is just as contagious as the virus.

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Anthony Fauci was just CONFRONTED by the most UNUSUAL suspect

It’s an odd day when CNN makes sense.

This past Saturday, CNN host Michael Smerconish confronted Anthony Fauci with a study that showed masking made little to no difference in the course of COVID-19.

“The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, was published last month,” Smerconish told Fauci, explaining that the conclusion was “there is just no evidence that they — masks — make any difference.”

Even the N95 masks were found to “make no difference.”

Fauci retorted with what seemed to be more garbled nonsense, saying that on an individual level they work, but “when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong.”

“This dumba** really wants you to believe that somehow it didn’t work on a pandemic level, but on an individual level, they worked,” Sara Gonzales of “The News & Why It Matters” comments. “Well, no, idiot. Because if they worked on an individual level, they would work on a pandemic larger scale.”

Jaco Booyens, while noting how ridiculous Fauci’s reasoning is, isn’t surprised.

“It’s so on par with their whole message,” he says. “The collective.”

“The individual doesn’t really matter, you know. So the collective is made of a bunch of individuals, and the virus attacks the individual, right. And if the mask doesn’t work for the individual, it won’t work for the collective,” he continues.

Gonzales notes that despite the plethora of information now available, like the study the CNN host brought up, people are still beginning to wear masks again.

“I have seen people start wearing masks again in public. I automatically judge you. I am judging you,” she says, adding,

“Like you’re really, you are really going to do this again.”

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CNN host shocks viewers when he confronts Dr. Fauci with study, expert analysis on mask efficacy

CNN host Michael Smerconish confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday over a recent study that questioned the efficacy of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What about the study?

In January, the Cochrane institute released a new systematic review studying the impacts of “physical interventions” to slow the spread of respiratory viruses. The study concluded that wearing masks “probably makes little or no difference to the outcome” on flu-like or COVID-like illness or laboratory-confirmed flu or COVID-19 compared to not wearing masks.

Oxford epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, the study’s first author, said after the study was published, “There is just no evidence that [masks] make any difference.”

“Makes no difference — none of it,” he explained, speaking of N-95 masks. He said policymakers who enacted mask mandates were “convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”

What happened on CNN?

Smerconish confronted Fauci about that study and Jefferson’s analysis, introducing it by quoting New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who described the review as the “most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses.”

Fauci, however, refused to budge.

“Yes, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individual, when you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” he responded.

“But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there are many studies that show that there is an advantage,” he continued. “When you [look at] the broad population level like the Cochrane study, the data are less firm with regard to the effect on the overall pandemic. But we’re not talking about that, we’re talking about an individual’s effect on their own safety. That’s a bit different than the broad population level.”


Dr. Fauci responds to study that says masks didn’t work

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There are several problems with Fauci’s response.

First, he cited “other studies,” but declined to name a single one. Second, he claimed those “studies” show mask efficacy at the “individual level.” But to study the efficacy of masks, participants are placed in two groups — one with masks and another without masks — and the rate of infection between the groups is compared. There is no way to study these outcomes on an “individual level.”

And don’t forget: while Fauci now claims masks are effective on an “individual level,” mask mandates were justified with the reverse logic. Politicians advised people to wear them, even those who did not want or need to wear them, in order to protect others.

Finally, Fauci spoke as though everyone’s risk to COVID-19 is the same. Sure, everyone can contract it. But the pandemic proved that not everyone is equally likely to die from it. The people most likely to die from COVID-19 are elderly people and those who are metabolically unhealthy and have multiple comorbidities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in fact, said that just “over 5%” of COVID-19 deaths include people in which COVID-19 “was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.” But for people whose death certificate listed COVID-19 and other conditions, “on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death,” according to the CDC.

Still, viewers were simply amazed that a CNN host dared to challenge Fauci directly on the efficacy of masks.

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