{"id":50745,"date":"2021-02-01T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50745"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:34:58","slug":"now-fauci-the-fearmonger-says-two-masks-wont-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=50745","title":{"rendered":"Now &#8220;Fauci the Fearmonger&#8221; says two masks won&#8217;t make a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Week After Saying \u2018Wear Two Masks\u2019, Fauci Says It \u2018Won\u2019t Make A Difference\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cThere\u2019s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50748\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50748\" class=\"wp-image-50748 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230716646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230716646.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230716646-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230716646-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Less than one week after advising Americans that wearing two or even three masks would be \u2018more effective\u2019 against the spread of coronavirus, Dr Fauci has done a complete 180 (again) and admitted that there is no data to suggest it will make any difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/25\/fauci-wearing-two-masks-is-better-than-one\/\">made the comments<\/a>\u00a0last week, the media began to push the idea that two masks wasn\u2019t enough, and that people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/27\/experts-now-say-americans-should-wear-three-masks\/\">need to wear three<\/a>, or even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/28\/doctor-tells-nbc-americans-should-consider-wearing-four-face-masks\/\">four masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, during an interview at the weekend, Fauci completely contradicted his own comments from the previous week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci on double masking:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptVivQfuwt\">pic.twitter.com\/ptVivQfuwt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEliKlein\/status\/1355991619225448450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise, given that Fauci has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/fauci-says-he-doesnt-regret-telling-americans-not-to-wear-masks-at-the-beginning-of-the-pandemic\/ar-BB16P84e\">flip-flopped<\/a>\u00a0continuously on masks, having\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-video-masks-idUSKBN26T2TR\">originally said<\/a> that \u201cthere\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask,\u201d and that they are little more than symbolic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRa6t_e7dgI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>Later, Fauci fully embraced the masks and stated that they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/11\/fauci-unless-americans-take-the-vaccine-the-masks-need-to-stay-on\/\">\u2018need to stay on\u2019\u00a0<\/a>until everyone is vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/19\/professor-of-medicine-brags-about-wearing-two-face-masks-to-inauguration-despite-having-been-vaccinated\/\">previously highlighted<\/a>, it went from wearing a mask to now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/21\/cbs-medical-editor-says-americans-should-wear-two-masks\/\">wearing two masks<\/a>\u00a0being the best way virtue signal.<\/p>\n<p>Why concern yourself with trivial matters such as breathing when the wearing of multiple face coverings is so effective in delivering social media clout?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the fact that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8966883\/Masks-DONT-stop-spread-Covid-experts-criticise-troubling-lack-evidence.html\">there is no evidence masks do anything<\/a>\u00a0get in the way of that dopamine hit.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/02\/01\/a-week-after-saying-wear-two-masks-fauci-says-it-wont-make-a-difference\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/02\/01\/a-week-after-saying-wear-two-masks-fauci-says-it-wont-make-a-difference\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Week After Saying \u2018Wear Two Masks\u2019, Fauci Says It \u2018Won\u2019t Make A Difference\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}