Back in March, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a widely seen interview told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook that there’s no reason people in the U.S. should wear a mask.
By the end of March Dr. Fauci said he was engaged in “very active discussion” with administration officials about reversing the guidance and lest you think we are picking on Dr. Fauci, Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted “STOP BUYING MASKS!”
But by the first week of April NPR reported Americans should wear face masks as a way to help stifle the spread of COVID-19, Fauci said, in what NPR called “a departure from previous government guidance to only wear a mask if you were caring for someone with the illness or had it yourself.”
“If everybody does that, we’re each protecting each other,” Fauci said in an interview with PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff.
In response to the change in guidance some jurisdictions, such as three Massachusetts cities began requiring people to wear face masks in public in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The cities of Cambridge and Lawrence announced that the new order requires anyone over the age of 5 to wear a clean face mask or face covering when in any indoor or outdoor space that is open to the public.
The same order applies for people in Somerville over the age of 2. Those found in violation of the order will face a $300 fine reported 7News, Boston.
L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer (not a physician, she has a PhD in “social welfare” from Brandeis University) said that every person in L.A. city and county was mandated to wear masks outdoors.
Yet, on April 23, John Solomon’s Just the News reported “Sunlight destroys COVID-19 within minutes [22],” and scientists’ government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, making the “wear a mask outdoors” order look ridiculous and unscientific.
What’s more, Dr. Russell Blaylock, in a lengthy article for technocracy.news [23] warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer. The bottom line is that if you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask.
If you are suffering from whiplash or feel like you are watching a tennis match join the club.
And if the medical and public health advice is conflicting, wearing a mask – or not – now seems to have become a political statement as well.
#Resist twitter user Kim Chernecky (@kchernecky) tweeted:
I seriously fear for humankind seeing all the idiots that don't understand social distancing or the importance of wearing masks to protect against spreading the plague.
Minnesota Democrat elected official Liz Olson (@LizOlson218) tweeted:
Watching the “open MN protest” at the Capitol: people w/o masks, passing a mic, standing close.
In contrast, I think about the correction worker, Joshua, who sleeps in an icehouse at the end of his driveway to keep his family & people at the prison safe.
#WhoCaresForUs
Jake Sherman, the Politico Playbook writer and NBC News – MSNBC commentator (@JakeSherman) tweeted:
A group of Republican lawmakers are huddled face to face, maybe a foot or two from each other in the corner of the House chamber. Patting each other on the back. Not only not wearing masks, not social distancing. Zilch.
While National Review writer and alleged conservative David French (@DavidAFrench) lashed-out at anti-maskers in a tweet saying:
If it wasn't clear before, the defiance of masking (as a means of re-opening) from some folks on the right makes very clear now that their version of the "common good" is nothing more than making you conform to their will. Ask them to do anything for others, and that's tyranny.
However, despite the Twitter shaming, and in some cases having the police called on them for not wearing a mask [24], many Americans are not inclined to wear masks.
Ken (Papa) Schmidt (@Papa7326) tweeted:
I haven’t quarantined 1 single day. I don’t shake hands or hug people. Wash my hands a little more. No I’m not wearing a stupid mask. I run my business & make money. Impossible to work from home or stay home
Twitter user Matt (@Matt91403) tweeted his opposition to L.A.’s mask order, saying:
@MayorOfLA might be the stupidest man in the country. He is certainly the worst mayor of Los Angeles. I’m not wearing a mask dude
And on the other coast, Chris Mullen (@chrisNJnow) tweeted:
You can stay inside. I’m going to the beach and I’m not wearing a mask. Get a grip.
While Twitter user Avenge Flynn Now (@k_ovfefe2) pointed out in a May 15 tweet:
President Trump said he gave people the option to wear a mask or not when they're outside, which explains why some people are wearing them and some aren't.
And Big Vern (@BigVern17854769) responded:
Isn't it amazing how Freedom and Liberty works? #NoMask
As the unconstitutional lockdowns begin to come off, even in anti-liberty strongholds like Democrat-run Los Angeles, other mandates, such as wearing a mask when outdoors, are being imposed. We are interested in what CHQ readers think about wearing a mask – please let us know in the comments below.
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