Vaccinated people need to wear a mask around unvaccinated people because it isn’t known whether or not they can spread the virus TO unvaccinated people.
Mask wearing has always been primarily about preventing the spread from people with Covid TO others.
We’re 14 months into this, how bout you start paying attention?
Pay attention to what Floggy? Fauci? The CDC? Which of their 29,372 conflicting directives does Mad Dr. Hypoflog suggest we listen to? Certainly it's no longer science, so which edicts or directives?
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Analysis: The CDC Can't Stop Undermining Its Own Credibility
Earlier in the week, we gave the CDC
half a cheer for its impending, if embarrassingly belated, changes to guidance on outdoor masking. The new guidance finally arrived on Tuesday. It is profoundly underwhelming, to put it kindly.
One science-based reality is that outdoor transmission of COVID is vanishingly rare – almost non-existent – even among unvaccinated people.
Another science-based reality is that the vaccines work incredibly well, offering robust immunity.
The notion that the CDC is still recommending that fully vaccinated people wear masks in some outdoor settings is untethered from the data, and yet again sends the counter-productive signal that maybe the vaccines don't work. They really truly do, of course, but that's not what the Powers That Be repeatedly insist on conveying. National Review's Phil Klein wrote a
succinct and scathing post about the new CDC rules, calling them "a joke:"
"To be clear,
the science was overwhelming last year that the risk of outdoor transmission of COVID-19 was low to non-existent. Anybody following the science should have never felt compelled to wear a mask outdoors during the pandemic. Furthermore, somebody who is fully vaccinated is at minimal risk of catching COVID-19 indoors or outdoors. Earlier this month, the CDC itself reported that out of a universe of 66 million individuals who were vaccinated at the time, just 5,800 got the virus.
That’s less than 1-in-10,000. The idea that the CDC, even in loosening outdoor mask guidance, is still insisting that vaccinated people wear masks in crowded outdoor settings is completely unmoored from science or reason. This is a bungling agency that has made one mistake after another throughout the pandemic...It would be easy to say that every American should just ignore the CDC, because the people running it have exposed themselves as unserious people. But the problem is that
state and local officials as well as private business often defer to CDC guidance. So if you live in a Faucistan sector of the United States, your daily life is likely still going to be affected by whatever the CDC decides to cook up."
Ben's right, masking is now ideology.
Saw an interesting comparable quote yesterday:
"Totalitarians love their symbols, whether armbands or facemasks."
