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All I know is that during the worst of Covid I travelled several times on airplanes always wearing masks as were everyone else and for the first time I never got sick.

I'm British, so forgive me but how did Fauci fuck up with masks? I don't think I've heard anything about that.

This is my thought too. There’s a lot of justified mistrust of our medical system which is exploited by malefactors of every kind. And also, there’s a ton of dipshits who are eager to be misled

?? What was wrong with masks other than relaxing their use too soon? The one thing I remember best from the winter of 2020-21 was that NOBODY caught the flu because of masks (a lot of them cloth) and social distancing. And I fucking hate wearing a mask.

He did not fuck up with masks. Why do people keep saying this? We STILL wear them in them in hospitals during flu/covid spikes and we never used to wear them before and they help. I haven't gotten covid from working in the ER, ever. Just from your friendly neighborhood Mall instead.

Talk to us hairstylists about masks not working. When shampooing hair, our faces are 10 inches from our clients faces. When shampooing out a color it's 10 inches for 10 minutes. I got Covid four times and it was after a wedding, eating in restaurants, and on a plane to FL. People are such babies.

2/ this really seems like pretty classic cherry-picking in the face of evolving knowledge.

I'm an immunologist in drug development. The only thing that was really fucked up was the initial Covid test from the CDC (not Fauci), which did have serious technical issues that rendered it unusable.

It drives me nuts that every scolding article about how public health officials made "mistakes" leads with this example. Feels like a media gotcha with no real connection to the underlying conflict. The people who don't like Fauci, also hated masks.

ah but Josh, you're forgetting: any reversal or other change in guidance means that at one point the guidance was wrong and therefore no guidance can ever be trusted

So the "fuck up" is not getting to the point (shortages) until the end of video? People I hear bemoaning a "fuck up" with masking are usually implying incorrectly that masks don't work or cause harm.

To be clear, the problem was that PPI was in such short supply that medical professionals were competing against the general public for access to N95 masks. Which was really just a "Americans elected Donald J Trump to be President and he sucks at it" problem.

Point to the lie, I dare you.

At first they told us to wear makeshift masks because there weren't enough good ones for frontline healthcare workers. The makeshift masks were mostly worthless. Not sure that is on Fauci though.

Fauci did NOT "fuck up" w masks. They saved lives.

He did not fuck up masks. Ask any of us healthcare workers.

Regarding masks, there was a bigger mistake that preceded Fauci's, and that was the failure of the entire pandemic preparedness "team" to make sure that masks were stockpiled. If this had been done, there's no mistake for Fauci to make. This is a DHHS-level mistake. It probably goes back decades.

"Years of documented, reproducible experimental research have reliably shown that the scientific method cannot produce reliable results"

I have a migraine now

In her defence, Neitzsche did argue that the fundamental problem of philosophy was 'the evaluation of values.' From what perspective do you do that? It drove him so crazy he decided to become an uber-mensch.

If only there were some kind of universally agreed on Method we could use to figure out the right Science

Funnily enough, it totally works if you replace each instance of "science" here with "god" ("invisible sky wizard" also works)

no no no, science is just like choosing a brand of handbag. if you don't like one then try another

I remember sewing hundreds of masks because they weren't available.

Science is imperfect and fallible hence I get to make shit up forever

And then when we did have enough masks, people were told to wear them everywhere, even outdoors where they are not needed unless people are literally sneezing on you. At the time, I did some CFD modeling of exposure in different cases and < 3ft outdoors was still way better than >12ft indoors.

Blatantly lying to the public permanently damaged trust in health authorities. And no, we wouldn't "instantly have run out of PPE". Because there were millions of ppl who could sew cloth masks - something that bafflingly never occurred to these authorities - and few believed the idiotic lies anyway.

what he should have said imo was something like "masks work, but we ask that you do not go out and buy them at this time, hospitals are short and need them the most. in the meantime here's how to make a cloth version." in any case we did run out of PPE anyway, Trumpers were stealing them

You imply Malice & Lying by Fauci which is asinine & out-right wrong When advice was to save masks for use by Hospital Staff who are dealing w actual COVID patients www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-a...

And if you think that this one thing "undermined trust", you're actually just participating in propaganda. The undermining trust was coming from exactly one group of people, and it was entirely people who wanted to shed masks, incinerate the vaccine, and spread the virus far and wide.

C. Didn't want people to go around with a false sense of security at a time when we were trying to get everyone to just stay home.