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....
....MUCH MORE
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 of the healthy and this: "Six Years Ago: The Moment Millions Of People Lost Their Faith In Science" and...I'd better stop now.
