Robert Redfield on mask wearing

Facemasks are the most important powerful public health tool we have.  And I will continue to appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face coverings.  I've said it, if we did it for 6, 8, 10, 12 weeks, we'd bring this pandemic under control...  We have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense.  I might even go so far to say this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against Covid than when I take a Covid vaccine, because the immunogenicity may be 70% and if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine's not going to protect me.  This facemask will. 

~ Robert Redfield, CDC Director, appearing before U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, 2:10 mark, September 16, 2020

(Immunogenicity is the ability of a vaccine to build an immune response to the virus.)

Rochelle Walensky: "This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated"

There is a clear message that is coming through.  This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.  We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk, and communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. 

~ Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, "CDC Head: COVID-19 Becoming ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’," US News & World Report, July 16, 2021

The CDC on excess deaths in 2020 for ages 25-44

The largest percentage increase in excess deaths from all causes was among adults aged 25–44 years at 26.5%.

~ Center for Disease Control and Prevention, "U.S. reports about 300,000 more deaths during pandemic than in typical year," Reuters, October 20, 2020

(Original CDC source)

Allan Stevo on who to believe when wearing a mask to reduce coronavirus transmission

It would look, on the surface, like the CDC is contradicting itself. One organ of the CDC said one thing in April and another organ said something else in May, which would not be the first confusing message from the CDC. One may feel torn between who to believe. That need not be the case at all. 

You have the top brass at the CDC, composed of political hacks saying to wear something, anything, as long as it vaguely resembles a mask. Their statements shift whenever it’s expedient to them. Then, in contrast, you have the peer-reviewed scientists pointing to the well-established, long-established fact that masks don’t work for reducing coronavirus transmission. 

I don’t know what the political hacks are trying to pull or why, and I don’t particularly need to know in order to understand why not to trust political hacks. What I know is that what they are saying is predictably inaccurate. This is the case for much of what political hacks say. Just because it comes from the hacks does not make it wrong, but hacks have a bad track record when it comes to science. They just don’t have a primary penchant for truth. If they did, they would not be political hacks. 

Face masks don’t work in preventing the spread of Covid. The science on that is well-established.

~ Allan Stevo, "Reminder: CDC Says Masks Don't Stop Covid," LewRockwell.com, September 24, 2020

Ron Paul questions the coronavirus death statistics

On March 24th, the CDC issued an alert stating that doctors should classify “probable COVID-19” or “likely COVID-19” as Covid-19 deaths. Perhaps that explains the seeming drop-off of pneumonia deaths this year and the simultaneous spike in Covid-19 deaths as some researchers have reported.

The BBC reported last week that, “At present in the US, any death of a Covid-19 patient, no matter what the physician believes to be the direct cause, is counted for public reporting as a Covid-19 death.”

Does that sound like a scientifically sound way of determining how deadly Covid-19 really is?

~ Ron Paul, "End the Shutdown; It's Time for Resurrection!," LewRockwell.com, April 7, 2020