Marco Rubio tweeted yesterday that Dr. Fauci lied about masks, and you’d have thought he took out his stick and pounded on a liberal hornet’s nest like a piñata:
Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March
Dr. Fauci has been distorting the level of vaccination needed for herd immunity
It isn’t just him
Many in elite bubbles believe the American public doesn’t know “what’s good for them” so they need to be tricked into “doing the right thing”
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 27, 2020
What Rubio is referring to is that well known guidance from Fauci in March, where he said the American people didn’t need to be wearing masks:
As we all know Fauci has since changed his tune, which he claims was based on information about asymptomatic spread.
With regard to Fauci’s comments on herd immunity, he initially said that about 70% would need the vaccination in order for there to be herd immunity. He’s recently changed that to about 90%.
He’s also claimed that our ‘worst days’ with this COVID pandemic may still be yet to come:
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday expressed concern that the worst may still come in America’s battle against Covid-19, agreeing with President-elect Joe Biden’s recent assessment that the “darkest days” in fighting the virus lie ahead.
“And the reason I’m concerned and my colleagues in public health are concerned also is that we very well might see a post-seasonal, in the sense of Christmas, New Year’s, surge, and, as I have described it, as a surge upon a surge, because, if you look at the slope, the incline of cases that we have experienced as we have gone into the late fall and soon-to-be-early winter, it is really quite troubling,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
“We are really at a very critical point. … So I share the concern of President-elect Biden that as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse.”
So now you can see why Rubio tweeted this, but he’s getting attacked liberals in the media as if he’s wrong:
Marco Rubio is casting doubt on the expert that has guided America through the COVID crisis while the president that Rubio continues to support has spread lies and conspiracies about the virus.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 27, 2020
I have had the chance to briefly interact with Dr Fauci and his colleagues and students while at NIH and I can attest he is a solid professional with probably more clinical knowledge than anyone in the field of Infectious Diseases. What “Christian” Marco Rubio is saying is a lie.
— Exploding Trumpenguin Singh MD 🌊 (@LabyrinthWeaver) December 27, 2020
the kind of tweet that could get a person hired as communications director for Ron DeSantis https://t.co/S9ep8GpGlG
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 28, 2020
What a bunch of schmucks! And the list goes on and on and on…
But not everyone is attacking him:
I’m failing to understand why this tweet is so controversial. Fauci has admitted twice now to deliberately misleading Americans. Whether you agree with his reasons for doing so are irrelevant. https://t.co/CrjYNvtndj
— Jessica Chasmar (@JessicaChasmar) December 28, 2020
Actually he told the truth about masks then. He is lying now. https://t.co/N337crUCi4
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) December 27, 2020
No public official has a right to lie to the American people, regardless of intention. https://t.co/hQeBjpgMlM
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) December 27, 2020
I’m not anti-mask and neither is Rubio. His point is what we’ve always known, that our ‘betters’ feel like they need to exaggerate or lie to us in order to trick us into doing the right thing, as if we’re too stupid to understand the truth. And the truth is that healthy people really don’t need to wear masks. If you aren’t sick, you can’t pass on any illness. 2+2=4. Also unless you have a really good N95 mask, what you have won’t protect you if someone sneezes near you or if coronavirus particles are floating in the air you just passed through. The particles are too small to be blocked by a mask.
But that said, I do wear one when I go out just in case I have something that I could transmit. I’m a little unclear on whether asymptomatic transmission has been debunked, so I don’t mind wearing one to keep my output contained. It also makes other people feel better and keeps potentially obnoxious people from yelling at me.