Mask Mandates Sum Up All That Is Wrong with the New Covid Regime

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Early in the pandemic, public health officials, including the United State’s leading voice in public health, Dr Anthony Fauci, were very emphatic that there was no scientific rationale for universal mask-wearing by the general public - certainly not by people who experienced no symptoms of disease.

This advice was consistent with the prevailing international wisdom about pandemic control. It was not a standard part of the tool-kit of pandemic policy to recommend that entire populations wear masks, irrespective of their state of health.

All of that changed rather abruptly around April/May 2020, when public health officials all over the world began recommending that people wear any type of mask they could get their hands on whenever in public, in particular in indoor settings (though some also suggested wearing masks outdoors). In this video, you can find this remarkable volte-face on masks illustrated by the case of Dr Anthony Fauci. His story is pretty representative of the dramatic s…