Sure enough but both sides need to put their swords down on covid in my opinion. The mask debate to me is now in the realm of say what are the best food for cardiac health . Some say it's the keto diet and others say it's Mediterranean while others say it's the Paleo. Who's right? If the goal is stop the virus dead in its tracks cloth masks don't do it . A properly fitted N-95 is the best . That's not maga or Fauci ,it's fact . I am to a point wear it ,don't wear it . What ever..You wearing it is not protecting me any more than it's protecting you. if you feel better ,good..good for you.
My take is there are people , bureaucrats, in the public government health that never had their day in the sun. The emergency management guys, well every hurricane season they get to be center stage . Public health, except for STDs and stuff, nobody really cares .
covid hits and they are importanter and because of that they dispense information like in the beginning masks don't work,but our healthcare workers need them. Then when the market is flooded mask do work . Look at us in public health we are doing something . Problem is the masks were only marginally effective and then politics got involved and that's it. Faucians versus Maga . It became something it should not have and in my opinion the trust that half this country has now in the CDC and NIH has been eroded greatly . The other half hangs on every word as it's gospel. Shouldn't we all need and want to trust them ? Shouldn't we all also have a healthy dose skepticism?
At best they did what they did to prevent panic and calm the fears of soccer moms and suburbia . Wear a masks save your neighbors life . It showed us government was in action doing stuff. It's like the nuclear bomb drills they did in the 50s to calm kids nerves about nuclear war. hey duck and cover under your cancer causing formaldehyde desk. Yah that will save you from the blast,shockwave and subsequent inferno . Nobody should blindly follow ANY politician or now a bureaucrat.