Fauci Couldn’t Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID-19: Lawyers

[The Barbarian]

I don't blame people for being confused about how the masks work. I do blame those who know better and lie about it. Dr. Fauci summed up what was known at the time, and it remains pretty good advice. Some people bad-mouthing him do know better, but hope the rest of us don't.

 

[Don't Panic]

I don't blame people for being confused about how the masks work. I do blame those who know better and lie about it. Dr. Fauci summed up what was known at the time, and it remains pretty good advice. Some people bad-mouthing him do know better, but hope the rest of us don't.

reminds me of my time working with aseptic cultures, we caped them with silicone foam. The pores in the foam where way larger than the bacteria we were trying to keep out, but statistically, the probability of a particle getting through the thousands of times the particle diameter was low and so, they worked. Silicone Sponge Closure SKU:2004-00002 - Bellco Glass | Laboratory Glassware Common sense is largely like dirt, it is everywhere but mostly worthless.

 

[KCfromNC]

Are the far right still going after Faucci and masks??

Beats having to explain why red states who followed right-wing messaging on the pandemic continue to see higher death rates from it.

 

[The Barbarian]

reminds me of my time working with aseptic cultures, we caped them with silicone foam. The pores in the foam where way larger than the bacteria we were trying to keep out, but statistically, the probability of a particle getting through the thousands of times the particle diameter was low and so, they worked.

Yes. This is why non-woven materials do a better job when lining woven masks. A tortuous path through the mask makes it much more likely that the microbe will encounter a fiber. I expect that the silicon foam also has random paths that would serve the same purpose.

I once wanted to be a bacteriologist. I have a bachelor's degree in the field. You?

 

[The Barbarian]

Beats having to explain why red states who followed right-wing messaging on the pandemic continue to see higher death rates from it.

Today's winner.

 

[KCfromNC]

Today's winner.

Not for the people falling for the right wing propaganda, of course.

 

[dqhall]

Turns out, even "drug store masks" are pretty effective at protecting others from people infected with COVID-19. They are somewhat effective at protecting the wearer as well.

Can face masks protect against COVID-19?

Face masks can help slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Learn about mask types, which masks to use and how to use them.

www.mayoclinic.org

If you are wearing a mask and you sneeze or cough, water droplets containing viruses are blocked, reducing risks of high level contamination.

 

[dqhall]

Dr. Anthony Fauci couldn’t cite any studies that changed his mind about masking against COVID-19 during a recent deposition, according to lawyers who were in the room.


Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, was among the U.S. officials repeatedly urging people to not wear a mask early in the COVID-19 pandemic unless they were showing symptoms. Among his many public and private statements, he wrote in a Feb. 5, 2020, email that “the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”


About two months later, Fauci and other top officials reversed course and issued widespread masking recommendations, regardless of symptoms.


Asked about the change while under oath on Nov. 23, Fauci couldn’t provide any studies, according to lawyers representing plaintiffs in a case against the federal government.

Fauci Couldn’t Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID-19: Lawyers

www.theepochtimes.com

Here is a study from Stanford Medical showing surgical masks reduce the spread of COVID.
Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

I don't blame people for being confused about how the masks work. I do blame those who know better and lie about it. Dr. Fauci summed up what was known at the time, and it remains pretty good advice. Some people bad-mouthing him do know better, but hope the rest of us don't.

Of course what's even sadder is that right-wing Christians (TM) who are all about the Bible being right on everything, ignore Leviticus 13

"The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, `Unclean!'"

 

[The Barbarian]

Of course what's even sadder is that right-wing Christians (TM) who are all about the Bible being right on everything, ignore Leviticus 13

"The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, `Unclean!'"

Funny.

 

[Diamond7]

Dr. Anthony Fauci couldn’t cite any studies that changed his mind about masking against COVID-19 during a recent deposition, according to lawyers who were in the room.

Masks prevent people from touching their nose which is how most virus are spread.

 

[Diamond7]

"The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, `Unclean!'"

In general, I do not have a problem with the NIV - But this needs to be explained.

Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

To rent or tear your clothing is an expression of sorrow. In the same way, they shave their head to show anguish of the soul with bitter mourning.

The Leper represents sin. Moses had an issue with his sister. She was mocking him and she came down with Leprosy. Moses prayed for her and she did recover.

Also, this was a very highly contagious disease. So people with the disease were obligated to warn others to stay away from them.

I know a pastor who would pray for leper people. He believed God would protect him and he never got sick.

 

[Fantine]

Do you have any hard statistics that show that following the CDC's protocols result in more deaths and hospitalizations?

Until then I'll listen to the scientists.

After 2.5 years (and not having taken my third booster yet) I did get COVID after attending a Broadway touring company performance in a crowded theater. My daughter and I both caught it, were sick for about 2-3 days and then recovered rapidly (and I'm 73--a high risk person.)

I am grateful we had our vaccines, and in retrospect we think we probably should have worn masks at the theatre, but hindsight is 20/20.

 

[Say it aint so]

I can't help but chuckle at the claim of spreading misinformation, while the source for that misinformation being the epoch times.
You just can't make that up.