Masks probably won't protect you much from other people who aren't wearing them. They will protect other people from you. That's what Fauci and others missed at the time, they were concerned with giving people advice on how to protect themselves. This is different, it's a way of protecting others.
I have my criticisms of Fauci, he certainly was late in realizing the danger, but so were an awful lot of other people. He was right about HCQ (that the evidence did not warrant people's taking it without a doctor's advice); he appears to have been right about asymptomatics (roughly half of infected people); and he also appears to have been right about the IFR, mortality rate, 0.5 - 1.0%.
Fauci's biggest problem--and this will be inherited by his successor, if one should come anytime soon--is that he can't criticize his clown boss without getting into a lot of trouble. Fauci constantly has to make his points diplomatically, e.g., when Trump said he wanted to open the country by Easter, Fauci said that idea was "aspirational", which is diplo-speak for "insane".
Clown boss? How about
clown show with this task force. Lol. Fauci is a fearmonger who seems to enjoy presenting the ominous side of everything. It's amazing how so many people worship this guy. He misinforms and changes his tune so much (his own colleague, Deborah Birx, stated the CDC inflated the death counts by "25%", and that you can't believe anything the CDC states and Fauci says nothing just pretending it was never said). And watch here how he squirms as he gets berated by Rand Paul on the Senate hearings ref the reopening of the schools:
View: https://youtu.be/ZYk3T39Xa4Y
You think wearing masks should be optional? I guess you run red lights and routinely exceed the speed limit, too, right? I mean, anyone can see when the intersection or road is clear ahead, why should we have to submit to what the government tells us to do? Maybe you *** and piss wherever you are, too? Why should we be compelled to find a bathroom in public, after all, the mess we leave behind won't affect us.
Bad comparison - traffic violations are punishable offenses that have been determined by the
Legislative process. Too many violations or violating more serious offenses (DUI, Hit & Run, Reckless driving, etc) can result in a loss of license or even jail time.
And yes, I do think masks should be optional as something that technically can't be mandated by the government.
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Professor of Law & former NJ Superior Court Judge, gave a brief overview of the legality of the mask mandates by some of the states. If a person is
proven contagious then yes - the government has every right to mandate a mask or even forced quarantine. Other than that, a mask could only be mandated on Federal or State property:
'These mayors and gubernatorial edicts are just suggestions'
www.google.com
The people that are most vulnerable; the elderly and
particularly the ones with multiple medical-conditions (hypertension, diabetes, chronic lung diseases, heart disease, obesity) who are pharmaceutical dependent should be wearing masks! Or just stay at home at all costs. These are overwhelming the people who are getting sick and needing hospitalization, and dying -- you know the very high percentages involving this selected group. The stats clearly spell that out no matter what country you examine.
And many of these people were in & out of hospitals/urgent care centers for complications from their conditions in the months and years proceeding this pandemic. They have serious pathologies and NEED TO STAY AT HOME. Nursing homes, which have very sickly people with immune systems ill-equipped to fight off any viral or bacterial infections, should have been completely lockdown from day one (and who's the idiot that sent infected COVID patients to the nursing homes that caused a significant number of deaths in NY - something like 43% of all deaths in NY occurred in nursing homes?!?).
Bad news for older people like me: a vaccine may not have that much effect for us. That would mean we depend on younger people getting vaccinated, and these polls showing large percentages of people won't take the vaccine doesn't give me much comfort. I'm really beginning to think I may have to stay in lockdown for the rest of my life.
https://onezero.medium.com/the-coronavirus-vaccine-may-not-work-on-the-elderly-3fc176f75751
I don't think you're much older than me...are you? (59). I don't worry about it because there are things a person can do to strengthen their immune system. And there are cases of many older people over 55 who tested positive for the virus but yet were either asymptomatic or experienced very mild symptoms (e.g., Rand Paul, George Stephanopoulos, Sean Payton, Madonna, etc.). The problem is so many Americans have been fearmongered into believing that there's nothing they can do to personally reduce their risk of getting sick (dietary changes, excercise, supplementation, etc). And these are the nation's health experts that seem to know nothing about some simple things people can do. It's all fearmongering 24/7 and people then demand protection from government starting the blame game if they get infected (blaming the young people of course). But fearmongering improves the ratings of these networks & media outlets - so it's going to continue.
Excercise, healthy diet and vitamin D can do wonders for the immune system...this isn't groundbreaking but our
illustrious health experts seem clueless!
An antioxidant produced during exercise may prevent or reduce the severity of acute respiratory distress syndrome. It may also offer a pathway to a new treatment.
news.virginia.edu
WHO declared SARS-CoV-2 a global pandemic. The present aim was to propose an hypothesis that there is a potential association between mean levels of vitamin D in various countries with cases and mortality caused by COVID-19. The mean levels of vitamin ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov