Several Democrat states like New Jersey are suddenly preparing to end their mask mandates in about a month or so and now one of CNN’s docs, who has been a major supporter of mask and vaccine mandates, now says the ‘science has changed’ and mask mandates aren’t needed any longer:
"The science has changed." @DrLeanaWen explains why she supports lifting some pandemic restrictions and thinks the decision to wear a mask should shift from a government mandate to an individual choice. pic.twitter.com/vaiybBBF2b
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 8, 2022
I really didn’t know that science could change on a whim like this. So what exactly changed?
She claims the vaccines protect very well against Omicron, even though it’s been heavily reported that this is a mild variant. Does it even need a vaccine?
She claims that we now know about ‘one way masking’, that someone who wears a high quality mask can protect themselves even if others don’t wear a mask. But that’s always been the case. N95 respirator masks are just about the only mask that offers protection against the small covid molecules. They go right through the pores in lesser masks. Just go back to Dr. Fauci at the beginning of the pandemic saying masks don’t really work:
If you keep watching Wen, she says we no longer need to pay attention to ‘case counts’. Now, she says it’s only hospitalizations that matter. Good grief, that’s always been the case too. If someone gets sick and doesn’t need to get hospitalized, no big deal. They can recuperate at home and no harm done. It has always been about hospitals getting overwhelmed with very sick covid patients.
So since none of this has changed, what really has changed? Maybe it’s the politics…
As others noted, there is nothing in The Science™ that changed to justify Dem politicians suddenly ending mask mandates. All that changed is the political fear they have.
Conflating "The Science" with politics like this is a key reason many lost trust in public health experts. https://t.co/yYpjR4b5Bt
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 8, 2022
These liars. None of the science changed from Christmas break when she was trying to get the whole population to switch to N95s. https://t.co/3NYh09UUw3
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) February 8, 2022
Isn’t it fascinating how the “science” keeps changing to suit Democrats’ political objectives? Kind of like the “science” in 2020 said you could shop in person but had to vote by mail? (And notice the “science” behind mail voting is not being revised at all). https://t.co/2kjAjQjHy1
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) February 8, 2022
This sounds like a few hundred years ago when the authority of the day had to stop persecuting people for saying the Earth is round.
Apparently the “science has changed.”
Code words for “we have been wrong.” https://t.co/1tc8bhGDc7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 8, 2022
Maybe a political operative – the former Planned Parenthood president – should NOT be the networks go-to medical “expert”.
The science didn’t change. Democrat poll numbers changed! https://t.co/e82KlFAbTY
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) February 8, 2022
I ran this through Google translate and got this:
"The midterms are coming." https://t.co/77TtMPlQoO
— Billy Hallowell (@BillyHallowell) February 8, 2022
Nope, only the season has changed and @TheDemocrats are preparing for chilly midterms! https://t.co/2YCYNTppfx
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) February 8, 2022