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Did you believe Fauci when he said there was no benefit to wearing the masks? How did he get it so wrong back then?
He made one statement back in February regarding skipping the protection of masks, since then he and others have made around 2 million statements recommending a mask
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Did you believe Fauci when he said there was no benefit to wearing the masks? How did he get it so wrong back then?
I guess you believe the rumor mill when in a March interview he said "In the March 2020 clip, Fauci said: “Right now in the United States people should not be walking around with masks … You should think of healthcare providers who are needing them and the people who are ill.”
Based on what was known then that was acceptable but that changed in the following month "Since at least April 2020, the CDC recommended that everyone wear cloth masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19."
So why is medical science on an unknown virus expected to be static? As more is learned the recommendations change. With an elected leadership that won't follow the best recommendations or set an example for others I am sure we will continue to see states like Texas go through the roof with new infections...
Conspiracy theorist ideology has a pathological NEED to be anti-intellectualist as its primary mental self defense mechanism. If the people who actually know what they are talking about are right, all the loony toon conspiracies fall apart. If the conspiracies fall apart, the ego invested in the conspiracies suffers a fatal blow.
From anti-vax to Qanon, conspiracy theorist ideology is basically the unifying principle of Trump's base at this point, so this is just expected as a matter of course. Most of these people were ideologically scattered and/or politically disengaged. Trump changed that, and united them as a voting block - alienating the moderate(and sane) wing of the republicans in the process - there is a reason he built his base off of the birther conspiracy lie: it allowed him to target the subgroup most prone to being manipulated with misinformation.
...Uniting the mildly aggrieved and alienated into a political force - that's good. Trump does possess some skill but not: deporting any illegals, building his Mexico wall or stopping the "fake" virus is going to result in him not being reelected.
Dr. Chuang Yin-ching, head of Taiwan’s CDC, told people in February to start wearing surgical face masks and the government went on a crash program to provide them to everyone for fifteen cents each. 95% of the population voluntarily began wearing masks outside the home. Today the pandemic is over here. 7 people out of a population of 24 million died of Covid-19 in one of the most densely populated countries on earth, making social distancing impossible. There hasn’t been a new domestic case of Covid-19 since April 12th. Schools and businesses were never shut down.
Did you believe Fauci when he said there was no benefit to wearing the masks? How did he get it so wrong back then?
I don't know, but why is Trump STILL getting it wrong after all these months? Is he incapable of learning?
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