Feb 2020 emails reveal Fauci knew all along masks

Harambe wrote:

I strongly encourage all but the most committed trolls to no respond to the avuncular poster. He's nothing but a extremely dimwitted, pernicious madposter. You won't get anywhere with her.

You seem very committed.

The Unkle wrote:

Fauci wrote: "Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.

"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.

Feb 5, 2020.

Weeks later -- masks are mandatory.

No contradiction there.

Sheesh.

No contradictions -- just more lies from you.

Weeks later, not "masks" and not "mandatory". In the words of Trump on April 3rd, the CDC advised the use of "non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure".

The justification is consistent -- cover the faces of the infected, including "presymptomatic" and "asymptomatic" infections -- to protect the uninfected.

rekrunner wrote:

forward planning wrote:

Wow. Now you're suddenly a Virologist an Immunologist and an Epidemiologist. And you've achieved this academic greatness all in the space of 15 months.

Chapeau!

I'm none of these things -- I just know how to read.

How good do you think you are at interpreting data?

forward planning wrote:

rekrunner wrote:

I'm none of these things -- I just know how to read.

How good do you think you are at interpreting data?

The nice thing is you just need to be able comprehend how skilled scientists interpret the data! Or you can read Naomi Wolf conspiracy theories, she's a doctor too right?

It's pretty easy to synthesize studies and read expert commentary and understand the consensus. Sadly, motivated reasoning and fishing for fringe studies tend to win out among the mid-wit COVID denier types.

Remember when people didn't understand exponential growth in Sprin 2020? Same people still denying.

Harambe wrote:

forward planning wrote:

How good do you think you are at interpreting data?

The nice thing is you just need to be able comprehend how skilled scientists interpret the data! Or you can read Naomi Wolf conspiracy theories, she's a doctor too right?

It's pretty easy to synthesize studies and read expert commentary and understand the consensus. Sadly, motivated reasoning and fishing for fringe studies tend to win out among the mid-wit COVID denier types.

Remember when people didn't understand exponential growth in Sprin 2020? Same people still denying.

Spring is a tough time for the old immune system isn't it?

forward planning wrote:

rekrunner wrote:

I'm none of these things -- I just know how to read.

How good do you think you are at interpreting data?

I let the scientists interpret the data, and I read what they wrote, including the limitations.