Thread via Drew Holden:
We’ve all seen the various flip-flops of the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the last 18 months.
To help keep track, I present “Fauci vs. Fauci,” chronicling the twists, turns, contradictions and backtracks from the man and his agency.
To start, we need to focus on Dr. Fauci’s perspective on the virus itself and it’s risk to the United States.
In late January 2020, Fauci said that COVID was a “very, very low risk to the United States.”
I think it goes without saying that his perspective has evolved since.
One big, obvious area of flipping is around the benefits of wearing a mask. Dr. Fauci originally said that masks weren’t effective & publicly encouraged Americans not to buy them (guidance he doesn’t regret).
Now even vaccinated people need to wear masks.
And it wasn’t just the efficacy of masks in general. Less than a month ago , Dr. Fauci declared confidently that the CDC wasn’t going to change its recommendation about masking given the Delta variant.
We’ve already seen changes, and more are under consideration.
And how many masks were we all supposed to wear, anyway?
Was it one mask? Two masks? No mask? A face shield? Goggles? Depending on when you asked Dr. Fauci, it could’ve been anything.
Dr. Fauci was a leading voice suggesting for months that the pandemic couldn’t possibly have leaked from a lab in Wuhan (one that received US tax dollars, by the way).
That was until the consensus changed. And then, suddenly, the theory couldn’t be dismissed.
Complete 180
These reversals cut in both directions. Back in September, the CDC changed its rules – reportedly under political pressure – to reduce the people it advised getting tested, before quickly reversing course after pressure.
And you may have forgotten, but the CDC had a brouhaha also in September when new guidance about airborne transmission – including beyond 6 feet – went live on the agency’s website.
It was quickly scrubbed after a brief medical & news firestorm.
Not exactly confidence-inspiring
Schools have seen lots of reversals. In February, the CDC Director said schools could reopen safely w/o teachers vaccinated.
Well, a few calls from the teachers union later, the CDC reversed course. Weeks later, new guidance (sensing a theme?) was released focusing on teachers.
And we had plenty of flips when it came to teachers wearing masks.
First, the CDC said that they had to, back in May 2020.
Then earlier this month, the CDC said vaccinated teachers and students don’t need one.
But now? Back to where we started – masks for the vaccinated.
To support the mandate for children to wear masks, Walensky flat out LIES about children dying from COVID. She said more children died from COVID than from influenza but the CDC’s own data shows more influenza deaths among children than all childhood COVID deaths for the past two years. What’s more, without comorbidities such as leukemia, there are ZERO deaths.
Science, science, science. Unless the politics requires lies.
Uh huh. And you’ve got a link to that data which you won’t share, right?
I thought you watched MSNBC? That’s where she said it.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-this-isnt-about-the-science-heres-proof
“WALENSKY: I think it’s really important for people to understand that this is not a benign disease compared to other diseases our kids see. If you look at the mortality rate of COVID, just this past year for children, it’s more than twice the mortality rate that we see in influenza in a given year.”
“From 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC, a total of 124 children died of COVID. From 2020 to 2021, 213 children died of COVID. By comparison, influenza killed more than 400 children just last year. In fact, that was not an abberation. Influenza has killed far more children than COVID has in each of the past five years. It’s not even close. ”
And, of course, these numbers are skewed because we now know that the PCR test identified influenza infections as COVID infections.
Yep. You’re quoting what TUCKER CARLSON claims CDC data shows, NOT any CDC report or data itself. Carlson, of course, provides NO links, nor does he divulge anything that might aid in a search for such CDC data or articles.
I figured as much.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-this-isnt-about-the-science-heres-proof
Right. And he provided the data and figures. Now you can provide YOUR information that refutes it. But you won’t. Because you can’t. Because what I provided is the truth.
Walensky is a liar. Idiot Biden wouldn’t have installed her if she wasn’t willing to lie on command. The CDC is a political organization, weaponized by the Democrats and its credibility destroyed. Now, go cry.
297 is a bigger number than 199.
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“June 4, 2021 – CDC reported 1 new seasonal flu-related death in a child that occurred during the 2019–2020 season last week, bringing the total number of flu deaths in kids reported to CDC for that season to 199. Prior to 2019-2020, the 2017-2018 season had the highest reported number of pediatric deaths, with 188 pediatric deaths reported. This tragic milestone underscores the importance of vaccinating children.”
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2020-2021/pediatric-flu-deaths-reach-new-high.htm
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“Children are making up a growing share of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly 21% last week.
“About 88,500 new pediatric COVID-19 cases were reported between April 8-15, according to the latest weekly report from the AAP and Children’s Hospital Association. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 3.63 million children have tested positive, making up about 13.6% of all cases.
“At least 297 children have died of COVID-19, about 0.06% of all deaths. About 0.01% of children diagnosed with COVID-19 have died. At least 14,849 children have been hospitalized, about 2% of all hospitalizations. Roughly 0.8% of children with COVID-19 have been hospitalized.”
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/04/19/pediatric-covid-cases-041921
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“From 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC, a total of 124 children died of COVID. From 2020 to 2021, 213 children died of COVID. By comparison, influenza killed more than 400 children just last year. In fact, that was not an abberation. Influenza has killed far more children than COVID has in each of the past five years. It’s not even close. ”
“In a recent report, the C.D.C. itself acknowledges it could be vastly over reporting the number of children who have died from COVID. The C.D.C. report says that when considering everyone who died of COVID, roughly 2.5 of those who died had a co-existing medical condition unrelated to their deaths.”
“So, for every other age group, these sorts of comorbidities are much rare and that makes sense when you consider that COVID is much less dangerous for children. Now, Joseph Allen is a scientist who works in “The Lancet’s” COVID committee. He found that quote, “Three major studies over the past year all found the risk of death to be in the range of one in a hundred thousand to one in one million. Hospitalization rates for school-aged children younger than 12 (the group that can’t get vaccinated yet) hovered around three or four per million throughout the pandemic.””
“If you need perspective, those are extremely low numbers, much lower than the C.D.C. Director just claimed. Dr. Marty Makary who works at Johns Hopkins found a quote, “mortality rate of zero among children without a preexisting medical condition such as leukemia.””
So, Walensky contradicts the CDC’s own findings (which often contradict themselves, depending on what is politically necessary at the moment). In other words, she is LYING and the left has turned the CDC into nothing but another tentacle of their propaganda apparatus.
Masks do not work, hard stop…
Why do Trump’s cult members think a little piece of filter paper is part of an insidious communist mind-control conspiracy? Does this have something to do with fluoride toothpaste and energy efficient light bulbs?
Maybe because the left is frothing at the mouth to take away people’s liberties over that little piece of filter paper that, by the way, does absolutely NOTHING?
Why do the Left’s cult members not understand the slow slip into tyranny, especially when “the common good” is invoked?
That’s not how this country works. The government has no right to require masks.
They understand. They simply think it will mean less work and more free stuff for them. They are totally ignorant of history and couldn’t be more wrong.
On the package of masks you have does it say anything about the masks preventing transmission of viruses?
Please provide the brand.
“Wearing in public could prevent being arrested by the Thought Police and placed in a reeducation camp.”
fauci is a larger threat to personal liberties of Americans than Mike Lindell