In less time than it takes for the sun to rise twice, the CDC reversed itself on mask usage last week. On Thursday, The CDC announced that those who have been vaccinated can go maskless. This followed an announcement on Wednesday that mask usage was still the norm for everyone.
The whole mask narrative was a false one from the beginning. Despite the media’s attempts to coerce Americans into blindly following the CDC’s directives, more and more Americans were seeing through the subterfuge. Graphs of COVID infections were seeping out into the public realm. Big Tech’s censorship was slowly being overwhelmed by the facts.
As Tom Woods noted:
The propaganda surrounding masks has generally gone like this: if maskers can find a place where cases or deaths came down following the introduction of a mask mandate, they attribute the decline to masks – even though neighboring areas without the mandate saw a similar or greater fall.
And when the numbers shoot way up again, even though everyone is just as masked as before, this trend is met with complete silence.
The best the maskers have been able to do is to claim that things would have been even worse without the masks. But that won’t do. If masks are so effective that wearing them for four to eight weeks would bring COVID-19 under control, and they’re potentially more effective even than a vaccine, we should see an unambiguous trend in the charts when people start wearing them in large numbers.
Yet we don’t. Over and over again, we don’t. “Studies” claiming to show such a thing always start and stop at times designed to make masking appear more effective than it is. Look at a wider timeframe and the alleged effect vanishes.
One CDC study, released in February 2021, stopped reporting numbers in October 2020. You might notice a slight – slight, I tell you – uptick after that:
Why the sudden reversal from the CDC? States that had re-opened were proof of the fallacy of the narrative. The story was being shredded by word of mouth. I personally had witnessed this over and over at a venue where people from many states were visiting. Those who were from areas with significant restrictions could not believe the openness, the lack of social distancing, the ambivalence toward mask usage in my local area.
This is what states like Florida, South Carolina and Texas have accomplished. They have exposed the lie on mask usage. They have also exposed the lack of scientific facts to support all of Dr. Fauci’s endless moving goalposts on the COVID narrative. We were told to “follow the science” when they were just making it up.
But we are not done yet. Our children are still at risk. As David Marcus over at the Federalist notes:
Societies and cultures are often judged by how they treat the weakest among them. In nothing are these judgments so justified as in the treatment of children. Just as parents who put their own comfort and safety above that of their children are harshly and rightfully scorned, so too should be societies that do so.
By this measure, Americans have much to be ashamed of in our fight against COVID. At every turn, our children have suffered so adults might feel more at ease.
If this was not already clear, and it certainly should have been, last week’s reversal of mask guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was a blaring billboard graphically displaying this depravity. These scientists decided vaccinated adults and teenagers are now to be rewarded with a mask-free existence.
Who does that leave behind? Who must still cover their mouths and noses? Children younger than 12. Once it was said they should be seen, not heard. Now they should not even be seen.
Some in our society have turned a blind eye to the genocide of the unborn. The most vulnerable among us have their lives snuffed out with alarming regularity particularly in our cities. Just how depraved are these people?
Are we going to do the same thing with our children who live among us? Why are our children still being forced by the CDC to wear masks? Will we turn a blind eye to their welfare?
David Marcus says:
As we march in our own Children’s Crusade, in which every adult is free to get a shot and return to normal life while our kids remain under unscientific restrictions, we should feel deeply ashamed. Instead, we hear that our children are tougher than we give them credit for, that a mask isn’t a big deal anyway, and that protecting teachers from children is more important than the children’s welfare.
So let’s ask ourselves if we are really going to do this. Are we really going to sit maskless in church while kids younger than 12 breathe through fabric? Are we going to return to our bars and nightclubs unrestricted while children go about their days with faces hidden by masks? Are we going to pretend that it doesn’t matter because experts tell us so?
What has marked and marred the coronavirus response more than anything else is Americans’ abdication of the responsibility to make their own choices, for themselves and for their kids. It is like a dream state in which the plastic of our reality bends before our eyes at the whim of so-called science. It is a solipsistic sleep from which far too many Americans refuse to awake.
If anything can make us snap out of our slumber, one would think it might be the welfare of children. But in a society in which even bearing children is often scorned as a loss of freedom or a threat to holy Mother Earth, we let them languish, all in the name of keeping ourselves safe from harm.
Of all the side effects of COVID, none is more stark and disturbing than Americans’ disregard for the welfare of our children. Let us pray that, like the virus itself, this horrible new normal in which we sacrifice our kids dissipates. And then let us beg their forgiveness.
Amen!