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Ready For More? Media Outlets Still Purposefully Misleading Readers To Push For Masks, COVID-Era Restrictions

Mandates end, but stupidity never does

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Ian Miller
Aug 23, 2025
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They were always going to fight back.

After years of mask mandates, vaccine passports and lockdowns utterly failed to stop COVID, it seemed like the tides had finally turned. A number of politicians associated with authoritarian policies either resigned or lost elections. General conversations had either moved toward accepting that our Anthony Fauci-led COVID response was a disaster, or in the case of those who supported those mandates initially, moved toward ignoring that it ever happened.

For many, it's an assumption that society has moved past pretending that masks and other non-pharmaceutical interventions are necessary. But that assumption is based on the premise that people can admit they were wrong. And if we've learned anything from how the media conducts itself, it's that they will never, ever, in fact they are quite literally incapable to admit they were wrong.

So even five and a half years removed from the start of our pointless restrictions, they haven't given up on pushing to bring them right back, as evidenced by the media openly advocating for science-denial and more mandates moving forward.

Anthony Fauci wearing a mask
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, departs following a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Younger children across the U.S. are now eligible to receive Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, after the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week granted the final clearance needed for shots to begin. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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