The statement of Anthony Fauci, former presidential health advisor to Joe Biden, about masks, spread on social media.
The doctor had confronted CNN anchor Michael Smirconich, who presented a study dealing with the “uselessness” of masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Netizens criticized Fauci after he admitted the ineffectiveness of masks in controlling the epidemic. But he insisted that on an individual level, other research shows that face coverings are effective in reducing the spread of the virus.
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Fauci stressed during the interview that at this point, “we’re not talking about forcing anyone to do anything.”
“Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the general public, but he still absurdly claims that masks work individually,” Republican Senator Rand Paul wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter). “More resourcefulness.”
“This is amazing,” said the podcast co-host. Trigger gauge Konstantin Kisin. According to Fauci, masks work on an individual level, but not on an epidemic level. It seems reasonable.”
“Fauci faced the most accurate data analysis possible that masks make no difference against Covid,” said conservative commentator Buck Sexton.
“Not at all, not at all… zero,” Sexton added. And he mumbles some nonsense about digital illiteracy – about ‘personal protection’. He’s a fraud and a liar».
“It’s really hard to assume that Fauci’s catastrophic errors were made in good faith when he refuses to acknowledge the obvious facts that don’t require a PhD to decipher,” said Cliff Sims, a former senior official at the University of California. White House.
“It sounds more like, ‘Trust the science!’ It only applies when it fits Fauci’s personal or political narrative,” Sims continued.
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