The U-turn regarding masks and the subsequent political divide over them has come to symbolize the chaos of the U.S. response to the still-raging pandemic. It also may be particularly damaging for America’s global standing, as it has drawn in not just political leaders like Trump but also widely respected public health experts who did not initially back the wearing of face masks.
“I’ve always thought of the CDC as a reliable and trusted source of information,” Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, told The Post last week. “Not anymore.”
Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key adviser on the pandemic in the early months, was asked at a House hearing this week whether he regretted the previous advice against masks.
Fauci said he did not regret the decision, arguing that at the time there was a “paucity of equipment” for front-line health workers.
The debate about masks could intensify in coming weeks as U.S. cases surge amid economic reopening. Some state governments are newly moving to mandate the wearing of masks in public, but plenty of people, including the president and some of his supporters, still rarely wear one.
In other nations, there is no such divide. In many Asian countries, surgical masks were socially acceptable long before the coronavirus pandemic, partly as a result of experience in past pandemics, like SARS in 2003.
Somebody has to step up and articulate this weird shit - the fucked up effect of this scatter gun scatter-brained libertarian approach - where the ninth and tenth amendments reign supreme and everybody's just on their own, and free to make it up as they go along. And if reality smacks you down, then you just wish some other reality into existence and go from there.
In the meantime, the top 1% of Wealth Hoarders here in USAmerica Inc got half-a-trillion dollars richer while our government was sending $1.4 billion dollars in Pandemic Relief checks to dead people.
This is what it looks like when we run the current "conservative philosophy" out to its logical extreme.
This is not a government
This is fucking robbery
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