Five Years Ago, Fauci And The CDC Demolished Science, And It Has Hasn’t Recovered
And it probably never will
It's now been five years since the great COVID Panic of 2020. Lockdowns and school closures began in March, thanks to the nonsensical "15 Days to Slow the Spread" mandate. But mask wearing started in the first week of April 2020. All thanks to the heavy hand of the CDC.
With that in mind, it's worth revisiting what the CDC had stated in late February 2020, followed by an about face when the decision to recommend universal masking was announced just a few weeks later.
The CDC hosted a telebriefing update on February 26, 2020, where they explained how they had run pandemic planning exercises based on the best available evidence from over 200 journal articles over 20 years of research. They specifically mentioned personal non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI); measures individuals could take to protect themselves.
"Personal NPIs which include personal protective measures you can take every day and personal protective measures reserved for pandemics.
Personal protective measures reserved for pandemics include voluntary home quarantine of household members who have been exposed to someone they live with who is sick.
The CDC and other federal agencies have been practicing for this since the 2019 influenza pandemic. In the last two years, CDC has engaged in two pandemic influenza exercises that have required us to prepare for a severe pandemic and just this past year we had a whole of government exercise practicing similarly around a pandemic of influenza."
Notice something? They never once mentioned masks. And when Anthony Fauci did mentioned masks in February 2020, it was on 60 Minutes, where he recommended against using them, explaining that they didn't provide the protection most people assumed. The nation's leading public health experts either never mentioned masking, or purposefully downplayed it.
So what happened?
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