Fauci Finally Admits in New Interview That Masks Don't Work

The truth comes out

Over the past three years, Dr. Fauci has been the face of masks and their associated mandates.

Fauci initially told the public, confidently, that masks were ineffective and unnecessary. In doing so, he followed years of scientific evidence and research that confirmed masks were ineffective when worn by the general population.

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But just a few weeks later, with no new randomized controlled trials, no new data or evidence to justify it, he completely flip flopped.

Masks instantly became a vitally important, necessary tool to prevent the spread of COVID. First, he claimed that they were meant as source control, to stop people from infecting others.

Then, he said that masks were protective for the wearer as well. All based on low quality evidence that intellectually honest observers would safely disregard.

After reality continually proved him wrong, he then moved to recommending that the public should wear two masks.

He provided no evidence for that claim, only that it was "common sense" and would "likely" be more effective.

Fauci defended indefinite mandates, saying he disagreed with people who believed masking should be a choice. He defended forcibly masking children, based on nothing but his immense desire to compel behavior.

But now that mandates are over and he's moved on to the next phase of his career, profiteering from his objectively disgraceful performance during the pandemic, the truth can be told, apparently.

Anthony Fauci wears a mask while speaking to members of the media before an event on the Biden administration's Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fauci Always Blames Others

The New York Times in their role as one of Fauci's chief promoters, has previously given him the opportunity for him to defend himself.

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While the interviewer, David Wallace-Wells did push back on Fauci at times, the discussion mostly serves as a vehicle for Fauci to criticize states, politicians and individuals for not listening to his advice.

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For example, Fauci expresses exasperation and inaccuracies about death rates between Republicans and Democrats. Naturally, he blames it on poor vaccination rates and political divisiveness.

"I mean, only 68 percent of the country is vaccinated. If you rank us among both developed and developing countries, we do really poorly. We’re not even in the top 10. We’re way down there. And then: Why do you have red states that are unvaccinated and blue states that are vaccinated? Why do you have death rates among Republicans that are higher than death rates among Democrats and independents? It should never ever be that way when you’re dealing with a public-health crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in over a hundred years," Fauci said.

Fauci: The divisiveness was palpable, just in trying to get a coherent message across of following fundamental public-health principles. I understand that there will always be differences of opinion among people saying, “Well, what’s the cost-benefit balance of restriction or of masks?” But when you have fundamental arguments about things like whether to get vaccinated or not — that is extraordinary.

Yet after the slightest disagreement from Wallace-Wells suggesting that it may not have made much difference considering poor results across the world regardless of political situation, Fauci then immediately contradicts his own previous answer.

Fauci: Yeah, you’re probably onto something there, David. I remember a public conversation I was having about the importance of a very effective degree of preparedness — how much it will allow you to escape significant damage from an outbreak. And I remember saying, depending on the transmissibility, morbidity and mortality of a particular pathogen, that sometimes no matter how well you are prepared, you are going to get a lot of hurt. This was one of those outbreaks. And you’re absolutely right. When you look around, nobody did great, except maybe one or two countries. Most everybody did poorly. Even those countries that had no political divisiveness the way we had, they did poorly. There were gaps and inadequacies in both preparedness and response that varied among different nations.

It’s enough to make your head spin.

This, of course, ignores that highly vaccinated countries with vastly different political systems have seen explosions in COVID-related and all cause deaths despite much higher compliance.

New Zealand, for example, with one of the world's highest vaccination and booster rates, saw all cause mortality skyrocket in 2022. The population adjusted rate was by far the highest it'd been in the previous 20 years, regardless of vaccination.