This mask:
Is not this mask:
One of these masks is remembered like this:
“The Lone Ranger! With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof-beats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again!" Introduction to the “Lone Ranger” radio program
And the other will be remembered like this:
“Face masks, these face masks, are the most important, powerful public health tool we have, and I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face coverings,” Redfield said.
One of these masks kept us safe from the evil in society and the other plunged us into its depths.
Robert Redfield, MD was the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Trump. Redfield made that statement during Congressional testimony on September 16, 2020. He also asserted this:
“I’ve said that if we did it for six, eight, ten, twelve weeks, we’d bring this pandemic under control,” Redfield said. “We have clear scientific evidence they work, and they are our best defense.”
At the time he made this statement I was dumbfounded because it was a pure lie.
There was and there continues to be no “clear scientific evidence” to support Redfield’s claim. In fact, during his testimony he didn’t cite a single source to support his assertion — not even the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH is a CDC agency that was established in the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act to conduct research to support OSHA rule making for new and improved standards for workplace exposures to chemicals, hazardous physical agents, and biological agents. In 2001 Congress directed the establishment of the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPL) within NIOSH:
”NPPTL was established in 2001, at the request of Congress, with the mission of preventing disease, injury, and death for the millions of working men and women relying on personal protective technology (PPT).”
NIOSH always had responsibility for the testing and certification of respiratory protective devices but the establishment of the NPPTL strengthened that authority. CDC knew this because NIOSH for administrative reasons, had been placed within the CDC. NIOSH also knew then as it does now that the surgical mask is not a respiratory protective device and was of no benefit to the control of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the general population
After Redfield gave his testimony Congress two things happened, First, this man —
had to find away around this written statement: “Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading [an] infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection….”
Second, Robert Redfield was no longer a constant presence at President Trumps daily SARS-CoV-2 briefings.
I never understood where Redfield got the idea that a surgical mask would prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. After all, even the infamous Tony Fauci said that they were not meant to protect their wearer from SARS-CoV-2 and so did NIOSH. Nevertheless, Redfield had committed the nation to a public health practice that was nonsensical and completely without scientific support.
Not only did CDC push the use of surgical and homemade cloth masks in all of their guidances on preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 but businesses made their wearing mandatory and both the legacy media and social media made wearing a mask a matter of the utmost morality and virtue.
Case closed. Masks were the answer to stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
But then when virtually everyone in the nation was masked, the Delta variant appeared. From late October 2020 through late February 2021 the Delta variant spread throughout a mostly masked nation. When a panic stricken people asked what should be done to protect themselves because they realized that the surgical mask was failing to keep them “safe” this man said:
“If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective….”
“THE SCIENCE” that we were told to follow had been replaced by Tony Fauci’s “common sense” which had no scientific basis. It was a complete fiction.
There remains to this day no scientific data to support Tony Two Masks’ assertion or those assertions of the CDC, the legacy media or social media. Of all of those sources the CDC is most to blame for misinformation about the efficacy of the surgical mask as an effective tool for preventing the spread of SARS-Cov-2. An excellent review of the CDC’s utter manipulation of “THE SCIENCE” and the data supporting mask wear can be found here.
Based on these lies and they are lies, we masked ourselves at work, while shopping, and in some cases driving alone in our cars. But of all of these the places in which it was “mandated” that masks be worn the most sinful was in our schools. The harm caused by putting our children in masks, hiding them from society and eliminating any hope for needed socialization with their peers was unforgivable except perhaps by God.
The Lone Ranger wore a mask to protect us from evil.
The CDC, Tony Two Masks, the legacy media, and social media shamed us into wearing masks in an act of societal control and pure theater and in the process they made us lose OUR common sense.
”And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.” Mark 10:16
Union, KY
9 March 2022
Good stuff! That Citizen's Journal article you link has a TON of references linked in it that are great! Lots of reading to do to get through them, but they definitely back up your points and back up what I have been saying since MArch of 2020. Keep up the good work!