No no no no no, your timeline is completely fucking off. I read your article and what Fauci was clearly referring to when he spoke of his earlier anti-mask statements was the period in early March when he and Jerome Adams came out against masks (such as the 60 Minutes interview I posted weeks ago). By the time of the May article in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 21, the mask-wearing was completely in vogue and virtually all states were requiring it. Also, Fauci never came out in May to publicly state what was in the May 21 article that he had contributed to.
So please, don't give me that bullshit. Fauci simply knows that hardly anyone knows about the May 21 article, and he is doing what he has done his entire career in DC: play the political game. It is plain as day that Fauci is a political creature and a celebrity character as much as if not more than an "infectious disease expert." My judgment from the beginning has been that he is in large part a celebrity clown, and his numerous contradictions and vacillations have confirmed that assessment in recent months.
Just a quick side note: I am for defunding NPR. I find it pathetic that Republicans always agree to fund that shithole network, which is a complete waste of money. There can be a classical music station unpolluted by white left-wing political inanities.
We actually don't know a whole lot more. The more perceptive among us recognized what was going on in March. But I'm glad that you believe in the ignoble, I mean noble, mythology of NPR and the New Slavetrader Times. The March 24th WSJ article from two Stanford scientists that I posted said there were likely millions of asymptomatic carriers, and that reality has been borne out in the months since.
Pence is a fucking meathead. Why does him wearing a mask prove anything? And I am for the face masks too; I just believe in a different use for them. I think they are great to wipe your ass with if the lockdowns are causing a toilet paper shortage at your local department store. (That said, I do like bandannas; they are one of the few positives I can take from this nightmarish and dystopian lockdown period.)
Btw, I find Fox News's hyping of "covid" in recent months to have been totally pathetic. Instead of resisting the Democratic Party's idiocy at every turn, they have conceded far too much ground. Hannity and MacCallum just put out commercials imploring people to wear masks, and in March Fox News did as much fearmongering about "covid" as the other channels instead of resisting this fraudulent narrative the whole way through.
Watch Cali
Republicans have been weak and pitiful in standing up the covid lockdowns. They should have been laughing at the New York Times editorial board and acting like they heard nothing from them. But then again, I have no respect for the NYT editorial board so I suppose it's easy for me to say that. I think they're a joke and they should not be treated as even remotely serious intellectuals.
If Republicans had any resolve or toughness to them, they would point to this story right here as reason for an immediate opening up of American society on Monday July 6th. Time to end the bullshit. The lockdowns are causing more death than they are preventing:
Pandemic unleashes a spike in overdose deaths
The coronavirus threat put on hold a billion-dollar research program focused on new forms of addiction treatment.
06/29/2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/pandemic-unleashes-a-spike-in-overdose-deaths-345183
Again, the May 21 article came out long after the masks were in vogue. What Fauci was referring to in your article were the anti-face mask statements that he and Jerome Adams made in early March. He was not referring to the May 21 article, which he assumes 99% of people don't know about. And you and AntiPusher would not know about it either were it not for me and my sources.
Btw, how about Trump being right about hydroxychloroquine? Even CNN had to grudgingly admit it today when reporting about that new study.