He said masks don’t protect the healthy, but stop some virus from the sick and infected from flying about. In those days no one knew how infectious and how it really transmitted as we were wiping surfaces like crazy, when it really is airborne and far more infectious than the flu viruses. Furthermore, masks bought at the time and cloths sucked at protecting you from it. Now, we know what a good mask is. Masks, good masks WORK. That’s why he later said wear double masks as vaccinations begun, to protect as many as possible in the meantime. He had also seen that no one got sick from flu and colds as they were wearing masks for a year, because masks WORK!
Let’s not forget that only recently we have more data from millions of vaccinated as to mask wearing, social distancing, etc., and infections, what kind, how bad, and so on. It’s working, and you can’t argue with SUCCESS!
So, Fauci, like all of us, learned and adjusted. He wasn’t the only one advising no masks wearing for healthy people, as they were trying to have them available for health care workers treating patients. It took until the summer to be able to buy surgical masks with three layers, and the fall to be able to buy KN95 masks, which are really effective. US made N95 were still hard to get in early 2021.
Those are the facts. Throwing stones at Fauci just ignores them.
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