Follow The Science...

We've been told since the beginning to "follow the science" as it refers to the COVID response. But have any of the "officials" followed the science?

Fauci was interviewed in March of last year where he warned of, "warned of 'unintended consequences' of masks, saying 'people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.' 'There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.'"

Then he changed his tune and claimed that wearing a mask was essential. Then he upped that to wearing two masks, because two is better than one. However, none of that goes with "the science." There are too many studies to list here that claim that wearing a mask is NOT beneficial.

When it came to the vaccines, the initial push was to "stop the spread."

Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Fauci explained to host John Dickerson that fully vaccinated people can go without masks even if they have an asymptomatic case of COVID-19 because the level of virus is much lower in their nasopharynx, the top part of their throat that lies behind the nose, than it is in someone who is unvaccinated.

"So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they're going to transmit it," Fauci said.

Fauci added that vaccinated people essentially become "dead ends" for the virus to spread within their communities.

But that quickly turned around once the number of vaccinated individuals started becoming infected.

"They are seeing a waning of immunity not only against infection but against hospitalization and to some extent death, which is starting to now involve all age groups. It isn't just the elderly," Fauci said. "It's waning to the point that you're seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital."

As a result of these findings, Fauci warned that vaccinated people should get their booster shot, as it might actually be more important than health officials first realized. "If one looks back at this, one can say, do you know, it isn't as if a booster is a bonus, but a booster might actually be an essential part of the primary regimen that people should have," he said on The Daily.

Fauci went on to say, "I think … that the boosting is gonna be an absolutely essential component of our response, not a bonus, not a luxury, but an absolute essential part of the program."

Then the CDC was called out about their claims as well.

The Centers for Disease Control are walking back claims made by its director that people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 do not spread the virus, clarifying that they do not yet definitively know if that's the case.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky had said Tuesday that "vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that is not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data." Her statement was based on a large study the federal health agency released Monday that had tracked newly vaccinated people in the U.S. over 13 weeks to monitor the efficacy of the vaccines in daily life. The CDC followed nearly 4,000 heath care workers, police, firefighters and other essential workers who received one of the two mRNA vaccines between Dec. 14 and March 13 and tested them weekly for COVID-19.

Because the majority of the vaccinated people did not test positive for COVID-19 during the 13 weeks, Walensky concluded that they did not carry the virus.

But after scientists criticized Walensky's comments this week, the CDC walked back her statement.

"Dr. Walensky spoke broadly during this interview," an agency spokesman told The New York Times on Thursday. "It's possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19. The evidence isn't clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence."

Then the CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky came out and admitted that the vaccines are not stopping infections, or the spread.

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well," Walensky told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death -- they prevent it. But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

That's why the CDC changed its guidance last week and is now recommending even vaccinated people wear masks indoors again, Walensky said.

Here's the link from the CDC website.

Today, some of those data were published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), demonstrating that Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus. This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation. The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones.

We can see that science is not the basis for the decisions they are making. There's a constant "walking back" of claims because as more data becomes available, it disproves what was claimed prior. Why are we to believe that any of the safety data are correct, when the efficacy data were totally flawed.

After all, they believed that the vaccine was 90% effective, and that those who were vaccinated couldn't spread the disease. The claim can be made that things changed as time went on and more data were gathered, and that's fair enough, but little data is available on the side effects?

For all of the information that they didn't know about protection and transmission --they also couldn't have known about long-term the side effects! Not enough time has passed to claim that the vaccines are safe, yet they are out there claiming it on a daily basis. WHERE'S THE SCIENCE?

Telling people that everything's just fine --until it's not, isn't science it is called propaganda.
 
 
 

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