It’s no wonder most Americans harbor much skepticism about the COVID-19 pandemic: It seems like “the science” behind the virus changes almost by the day.
One of the most recent confusing trends is whether double masking in public is a wise thing to do.
Based on the premise that hey, if one mask is good, certainly two masks would be better — at least according to the country’s lead immunology bureaucrat, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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“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,” Fauci told NBC News on Monday.
Last month, The New York Times got in on the ‘two-mask’ theory as well, noting:
Football coaches do it. Presidents-elect do it. Even science-savvy senators do it. As cases of the coronavirus continue to surge on a global scale, some of the nation’s most prominent people have begun to double up on masks — a move that researchers say is increasingly being backed up by data.
“Science-savvy?” Really? The one thing that has been lacking throughout this pandemic is science.
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert who served on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board during the transition, now says two masks might actually be more harmful than just one.
“When we talk about double masking, remember what we’re really talking about is just trying to prevent the virus from being excreted by me into the air or me inhaling the virus from someone else in the air, and it’s both a function of face fit and face filtration,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, noting that two masks could increase a person’s chance of getting the virus.
Osterholm, who is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, added: “Think about your swim goggles. When’s the last time anybody leaked at the lenses? They leak at the fit.”
“So, what we’re concerned about is that many of these face cloth coverings do have already compromised fit or filtration capacity,” he continued. “If you add on another mask, you may actually make it tougher for the air to move through the two-cloth area, and then at that point, it causes more air to actually leak around the sides, which actually enhances your ability to get infected.”
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“I’m not saying that some couldn’t be used in a better way. But at the same time, there are many that actually, you may do more harm. Let me just say right now one thing that’s really, to me, very important is we see up to 25 percent of people who wear it under their nose. You know, that’s like fixing three of the five screen doors in your submarine. You know, what’s going on there? We’ve got to get people to start using these right. That would help right there tremendously,” he added.
So which is it? Who knows? Even Fauci has backtracked.
“There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference,” Fauci said Sunday during a video livestream interview with the American Federation of Teachers.
Fauci on double masking:
“There’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference” pic.twitter.com/ptVivQfuwt
— Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) January 31, 2021
So — what is ‘the science?’ It’s obvious even our ‘experts’ don’t know.
