The first half of the headline is the title of a 1958 play.
For our purposes it would more accurately be "Look Back In Rage" as the....well, let's get to the link before I...
From, of all places, Outkick, February 24, 2026:
Pro-Maskers Accidentally Admit Masks Don't Work, Debunking Anthony Fauci And Years Of Mandates
It's obvious to anyone who paid even the slightest amount of attention to COVID outcomes that masks do not work. The evidence against masking is overwhelming, from the decades of studies that confirmed masks did not stop respiratory infections, to years of universal masking failing to stop or even moderately slow the spread of the virus during the pandemic.
But there are a committed few, like Japanese soldiers continuing to fight years after the end of World War II, who are pushing for universal permanent masking.
RELATED: Data From 2020 On Mask Usage Provides Yet Another Example Showing Masks Don't WorkFor those who claim to follow science, their decision to ignore the evidence against masking is humiliating denialism. Akin to arguing against gravity or that the earth revolves around the sun. But in a remarkable feat of self-humiliation, some of the endless maskers wrote a lengthy letter to the World Health Organization that accidentally undermined the entire public health profession, their argument, and their religious leader, Anthony Fauci.
Forever Maskers Accidentally Admit Masks Don't Work
In a new letter to the WHO head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, several mask fanatics, in an effort to promote the use of N95 respirators, claim that surgical masks do not "provide adequate protection against flu-like illnesses including COVID," according to The Guardian. The letter says that there is "no rational justification remaining for prioritizing or using" surgical masks, because they provide "inadequate protection against airborne pathogens."Hilariously, one of the organizers of the letter, Professor Adam Finkel of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, also debunked one of the most popular pro-masking arguments. Anyone who argues against masking on social media has come across someone responding, "Well, if masks don't work, why do doctors wear them?" Ignoring, of course, that not all doctors wear masks, only surgeons do.
But Finkel specifically highlights that those masks were never supposed to stop viruses or respiratory infections, but were "invented to stop doctors and nurses from sneezing into the guts and the hearts of patients."
Finkel went further, saying that surgical masks are to respirators as typewriters were to computers. Those masks, he continued, are "obsolete."
So the forever maskers now admit that cloth or surgical masks do not stop airborne viruses. They admit that surgeons do not wear masks to stop respiratory viruses, and that wearing lower-grade masks, the exact type worn by the vast majority of the world for years on end to stop COVID, could not have possibly stopped COVID. Incredible. All the masking we did was never going to work, because surgical masks don't work. According to people pushing for permanent masking.
And for reference, here's how disastrous this is for Fauci and all the advocacy he did in favor of cloth masking.
In 2020, Fauci told the American Medical Association that "We need, as a nation, to show a degree of consistency of everybody following public-health recommendations on wearing masks or other face coverings...The goal should be universal wearing of masks." Masks or face coverings, he said. The exact type that his followers now acknowledge doesn't work.
In April of that year, he told PBS that it doesn't matter what type of mask you wear, it just needs to be some type of "facial covering" in order to stop COVID.
"We want to make sure that this issue of having a broader community approach towards putting on a facial covering doesn't, in fact, get in the way of the primary purpose of masks... That's why what we're talking about are things that may not necessarily need to be a classical mask, but could be some sort of facial covering."
In that same interview, he said, "we’re talking about cloth or fabric masks," when recommending which type people buy. Then, of course, as masks were failing everywhere, he turned to recommending double masking, saying to layer surgical and cloth masks.
"If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective," he said, defying science with one of the dumbest, most indefensible remarks from a public health expert in the history of the United States....
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Anyone who had sixth grade biology knew how small a virus is and how ridiculous the idea of masks that were intended to stop spit bubbles, stopping a virus was, and they knew it in real-time, January/February 2020. Actually you didn't even need sixth grade biology. The outro from an earlier Outkick article, August 2022's "YouTube Now Allows Users to Say Masks Didn’t Stop COVID Spread":
It wasn't just the "experts". There was a whole tribe of twitteratti passing that misinformation around.
And then there was the smart-ass eight-year-old who asked "If I can smell a fart through the mask does that mean it's working or not?"
Go away kid, you bother me.
Combined with the quarantining the healthy and this: "Six Years Ago: The Moment Millions Of People Lost Their Faith In Science" and...I'd better stop now.
