Yeah, N95’s weren’t available so let’s tell people cloth masks work. That way they will think they are safe and go about their normal lives only wearing a nearly useless mask. Let’s ignore doing so will spread the virus much faster, including hitting the more vulnerable.
My favorite part is that the cult of Fauci just ignores it.
He literally got on camera and said, do not go and buy masks. There is no reason for healthy people to wear masks. Stay home for 2 weeks to flatten the curve. (2 weeks never made sense BTW, given that were told the virus had a 14-day incubation period.)
Then a few weeks later, he got back and TV and said, "just kidding." I lied to you because we wanted HC workers to have masks. "Hope you didn't die up in those nursing homes. For the greater good!"
So the cultists went around wearing cloth masks, feeling safe, scolding everyone who suggested that it didn't make sense for a loose fitting piece of cotton, or surgical mask that is not designed to stop aerosols, to be effective in the end at preventing viral spread.
Then the high priest of the CDC came out and said "Two masks." So the cultists strapped 2 masks and shoved coffee filters inside them, and again, went around feeling safe, lecturing everyone, and somehow oblivious to the fact that they were apparently running around unprotected with 1 mask for the better part of a year.
Then, the good shaman of the CDC says...mmmm, no, cloth masks do nothing, so the true believers, go buy KN95 masks made by the good people of the PRC and they lecture about science, while ignoring that there were scientific people all along saying that it seemed wholly unscientific to assume that a T-shirt over your face would stop a virus. And again, they never consider that for 18 months, they were following guidance that was wrong, didn't get sick, but now we MUST follow the new guidance, because now, on the 4th try, the experts MUST be right, and anyone that points out that properly fitting an N/KN95 mask requires training and that there are health cautions about wearing one for extended period, well, you know what happens....the cult rolls on...the high priest enjoys his time on CNN, preaching to the kool-aid drinkers. Reality, history, logic...none of it matters when you are a true believer.
All that aside, here is my favorite part. Notice that none of the pols/bureaucrats/believers ever discuss what the goal of these policies is. There will never be ZERO COVID. It's an impossibility. The more you live like this, well, the longer you will be living like this. Viruses mutate. It's why we need a different flu vaccine every year. We are now taking a vaccine targeted at the original A strain of COVID for a virus that has mutated. With every variant, the vaccine becomes more and more mismatched. It's why people who are double vaxxed, boosted, and/or have recovered from covid are getting Omicron as much as the non-vaxxed.
We will be living this way until we change the focus from vaccination to therapeutics and early treatment(before hospitalization). Everyone will eventually get COVID. Stop thinking otherwise.