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Early on Fauci was telling everyone how useless masks were [1]. I have a couple people in my social circle that were banned from fb for saying he was wrong ea

Early on Fauci was telling everyone how useless masks were [1]. I have a couple people in my social circle that were banned from fb for saying he was wrong early on about masks being ineffective. And several others were banned later for pointing out fauci's earlier stance and calling it all propaganda. You are not allowed to think for yourself. Pick up that can. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-XVfZCX-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-XVfZCX-o

deregulateMed 5y ago
N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster. What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.
- djrogers 5y ago
  > What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks Don't know if you remember last march/April, but there were no N95 masks to give out in a lot of places...
  - deregulateMed 5y ago
    I agree, but by October they were everywhere.
  - ceejayoz 5y ago
    Right, but what about by this March/April? I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check".
    - TheCoelacanth 5y ago
      This April they're mostly useless in the US because you can just get vaccinated. If you're refusing to get vaccinated, you're probably refusing to wear a mask too.
      - ceejayoz 5y ago
        There's a lot more to the world than the US, and that's really missing the point. "We're out of masks" is a perfectly good answer to "why aren't governments giving them out" in March 2020; it's not a good answer a few months later.
    - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
      > I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check". Partly because it isn’t the role of government to “give” you things you might want while they are paid for with foreign debt in box.
      - ceejayoz 5y ago
        Disaster mitigation and relief has long been a governmental responsibility.
    - joshuamorton 5y ago
      There was a proposal to do this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usps-announcement-to-send-5-masks-to-every-american-household/39cd11c9-3e38-4d8a-9d70-7c3215ab9cf8/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp... It was killed for political reasons.
- merlinscholz 5y ago
  Last year in Germany you could get IIRC 7 free N95/FFP2 masks at the local pharmacy for free. The pharmacists were supposed to show you how to wear them.
read_if_gay_ 5y ago
Lab leak hypothesis.
YeBanKo 5y ago
"We have recently been notified of a potential policy violation and after a thorough review of the video materials uploaded, it has been determined that the content is misleading and contradicts official government records. As a result of this decision, you access terminating to Youtube and other Google products, including Gmail, has been terminated. The decisions is final. This message is auto-generated" “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
beirut_bootleg 5y ago
To be fair he never used the word "useless". That's the title submitted by the person who uploaded that. There could be a bit of confirmation bias here. It's as easy for someone with little trust in their government to point to this and say officials are flip-flopping on the information released, as it is for others to interpret it as Fauci saying "don't expect a mask to fully protect you".
- ipsum2 5y ago
  It really was that clear cut. The US surgeon general: https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020926/https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020926/https://twitter.c... "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
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deregulateMed 5y ago

N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster. What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.

djrogers 5y ago
> What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks Don't know if you remember last march/April, but there were no N95 masks to give out in a lot of places...
- deregulateMed 5y ago
  I agree, but by October they were everywhere.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  Right, but what about by this March/April? I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check".
  - TheCoelacanth 5y ago
    This April they're mostly useless in the US because you can just get vaccinated. If you're refusing to get vaccinated, you're probably refusing to wear a mask too.
    - ceejayoz 5y ago
      There's a lot more to the world than the US, and that's really missing the point. "We're out of masks" is a perfectly good answer to "why aren't governments giving them out" in March 2020; it's not a good answer a few months later.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    > I don't understand why most functional governments didn't eventually have a monthly care package of "here's your masks, hand sanitizer, the latest newsletter, and your stimulus check". Partly because it isn’t the role of government to “give” you things you might want while they are paid for with foreign debt in box.
    - ceejayoz 5y ago
      Disaster mitigation and relief has long been a governmental responsibility.
  - joshuamorton 5y ago
    There was a proposal to do this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usps-announcement-to-send-5-masks-to-every-american-household/39cd11c9-3e38-4d8a-9d70-7c3215ab9cf8/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp... It was killed for political reasons.
merlinscholz 5y ago
Last year in Germany you could get IIRC 7 free N95/FFP2 masks at the local pharmacy for free. The pharmacists were supposed to show you how to wear them.

read_if_gay_ 5y ago

Lab leak hypothesis.

YeBanKo 5y ago

"We have recently been notified of a potential policy violation and after a thorough review of the video materials uploaded, it has been determined that the content is misleading and contradicts official government records. As a result of this decision, you access terminating to Youtube and other Google products, including Gmail, has been terminated. The decisions is final. This message is auto-generated" “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

beirut_bootleg 5y ago

To be fair he never used the word "useless". That's the title submitted by the person who uploaded that. There could be a bit of confirmation bias here. It's as easy for someone with little trust in their government to point to this and say officials are flip-flopping on the information released, as it is for others to interpret it as Fauci saying "don't expect a mask to fully protect you".

ipsum2 5y ago
It really was that clear cut. The US surgeon general: https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020926/https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020926/https://twitter.c... "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
- deleted 5y ago
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