CDC Credibility Implosion: New Mask Mandate Makes No Sense
Even much of the mainstream media is confused and frustrated by yesterday's sudden flip-flop by the CDC, advising that everyone once again begin wearing masks indoors. They claimed it was because the "delta" variant was eluding the vaccine, while at the same time continuing to claim that the vaccine was very effective and that everyone should take it. Both of these things cannot be true...and most Americans understand that. Will the push-back on this incomprehensible policy-shift gain momentum?
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
You know, I told you a little while ago that I've become an optimist.
Everybody knows I'm an optimist with a lot of reservations because I always add a time element in there.
Yeah, I'm optimistic.
You know, in 30 years from now, we might have more liberty than we have today.
But no, I think long term there are some positive things.
I think our history is good.
And I think people are waking up.
But I told you that I want to talk more about the positive things.
And we have an opportunity if we follow my rules, which is optional.
Everything we do today or ever, we could turn it into a positive.
You say, what are you talking about?
How can it be positive?
What are those clowns doing?
What if you read an announcement from Fauci?
How can you be positive about what he's doing?
Well, they're self-destroying themselves.
That's what they're doing, self-destruction.
So you read all this stuff going on and we say, how can they survive this?
And they have done pretty well.
But it just is just getting so bad.
I'm sort of sensing that they're losing track.
When I saw today that the postal union was saying that they don't want to wear these, get these vaccines.
They don't want mandates.
That's 220,000 government workers.
And you know how obedient a government worker has to be.
I would say a few people are waking up.
They're getting sick and tired of it.
And they don't believe all this stuff that's going on.
So in that sense, I think that a little bit of making fun of people who are doing things that make no sense.
And every day it makes less and less sense.
So we should point it out, but we should also say that could backfire on them and it could diminish their acceptance.
And I think it's happened already.
I think if you compare to way things were a year ago, everybody was terrorized.
It's sort of like maybe we've accelerated the war, the war against the American people.
Because when we talk about international wars, people are always supporting the military and making us safe and march with the soldiers, invade this country.
And then after a time, people finally say, enough is enough.
And then they say, well, we better get out.
And I so frequently use Vietnam as an example.
I just wish that this discuss with Afghanistan would work and we'd really come home from there.
But anyway, back to the new regulations.
They're still involved, I think, in mischief, over manipulation, over-regulation.
I think they're involved in political power.
I think the opposition to our views, they are also on the side of the people who make a lot of money doing this.
But I wanted to start off more specifically with an article that Jeff, our friend Jeff Tucker, wrote.
And the title of his article appeared on Zero Hedge, the CDC's Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing.
And I guess you can see where, well, that could be good.
And if that's what's happening.
But it also means that our work just gets more tedious at times to make sure people understand what is going on.
And that is part of our job is try to expose all the planning that they have.
But they started with this thing the other day about new regulations, and they have put them in the place.
But people are saying, well, they don't make any sense.
What are they doing here?
Excuse me.
And I guess one summation of this is they want more masks.
And you say, oh, okay, I understand their point.
Some people didn't get vaccinated and they still think that they might have it.
And they stretch the point.
Well, we should put, they should have to wear their mask.
That's not it.
They want the people who are vaccinated to wear masks too.
And that is when people finally, you know, have ended this.
And this, of course, is the subject and the point that Rand has made when he had a chance to pressure Fauci.
So anyway, the regulations are getting ridiculous.
The people are waking up and people just don't feel scared to death.
And the one thing is, is we have to realize they want to keep it going.
And we'll talk about other reasons why they'll do things to try to get people more frightened because maybe we need more shots, not less shots.
And besides, there's the Delta virus variant.
We have to deal with that.
And they're already warning.
There's one more deadline than the Delta.
So they're preparing the people.
But this is where I think it ends.
And I think we're seeing the beginning of the end.
And we want to keep up the momentum.
And I think we should deal with this in a firm way.
I believe, of course, intellectually there has to be with the ideas and a little ridicule is not against the rules, making fun of people doing the silly things that they do.
And politicians are vulnerable.
They generally do a lot of that.
So, Daniel, I think that there is a shift and we have to keep the momentum going.
I hope you're right, Dr. Paul.
It's hard to be optimistic because of what you hear, but you are definitely right about one thing, which is the new mask guideline doesn't make any sense.
You know, President Biden inadvertently sputtered out the truth earlier this week, about a week ago.
He said, get the shots.
If you get the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID.
Well, that's always been the case with vaccines.
If you get a vaccine against the measles, you don't get the measles with very few exceptions.
But what they found, they claim, and we know this for a fact, that a lot of people that are getting the virus are vaccinated.
And that's why the CDC said, okay, forget it.
Got to go back to masks because they worked so well the last time.
You know, Dr. Paul, we spent almost a year demonstrating graphic after graphic that masks did absolutely nothing to change the seasonality of the virus.
And we're seeing the emergence of a summer virus starting in the South and it will move to the North.
Right now, New York has a much lower number of cases than down here in Texas and in Florida.
That's the case last year, as it is all year.
These are seasonality.
But what they want to do is they want to say, well, it's because of the Delta variant.
That is a sneaky thing that came through and it's evaded our vaccines.
And so we're supposed to believe that the geniuses who made this never thought before in the past that viruses mutate and variate and change.
Maybe that's the reason we've never had a vaccine for a coronavirus before, because they do tend to do this.
But they want to blame it all on that.
They want to bring back the masks that did not work well.
And they're trying their best, but Dr. Paul, you're right about one thing.
There is a little bit of pushback.
Most Republicans were completely spineless last time.
They did everything they were told.
And now there's a little bit of pushback.
The House majority leader, the House minority leader, the GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy, is pushing back against Pelosi, demanding that everyone in the Capitol complex wear a mask.
He says it's just a power grab.
That's all it is.
But here's something interesting, Dr. Paul.
She has advised, she ordered the Capitol Hill police to arrest staff and visitors who failed to comply with the new mask mandate.
Now, this is a great opportunity for Republicans en masse to defy this mandate that she claims is true.
And we'll see what happens.
But you're right, there is a little bit of pushback.
But the fact is, this new mask order makes absolutely no sense.
And more people, even as you say, the mainstream media, Washington Post, they're saying, we need some data here.
This doesn't make any sense.
You know, there's a group that is very influential and they're becoming more influential all along.
And I think it's a good indicator, and that is the angry parents.
They have a right to be angry.
Some are described they're furious about it.
And this whole thing, they, and I witnessed that in our family because we have a large family of kids at school and what you have to do to get the kids to school and try to calm down their nerves and this sort of thing.
So they now, you know, thought, well, it was over and it was promised.
And we're hoping our governor is going to protect us against the thugs that want to come in here and make the kids wear these masks.
But that's where the resistance is, whether it's going to be in Texas or someplace else.
It's when the parents finally wake up.
They're still, no matter what the wokeism people want to do about family life and all, they can't destroy that.
There's still this very natural, very beneficial, loving concern about their children.
And the far left talk a lot about it.
It says all about the children, all about the children.
What they're talking about is they want the government to take it over.
And this is part of it.
Take it over and take care of the children.
No, the parents are seeing this and they do not like the idea that there's going to be a lot more, you know, people coming in and saying you must wear these masks.
And these are the rituals that you have to go through.
Yeah, you know what's interesting, though, there's a war between the maskers, the people who want to control people by forcing them to put something on their face that, of course, doesn't block the virus.
It's way too small.
And even Fauci himself admitted that's the case.
Between those people on the one side and the other people on the other side who want to sell vaccines because they're making a lot of money.
And in fact, someone pointed out today that these vaccines are the most profitable product of big pharma in its entire history.
Pfizer will be having $33.5 billion in sales, $10 billion in profits, primarily driven by these shots.
So you have on the one hand, people like Walensky who want to push people around.
On the other hand, you have people like Scott Gottlieb, who used to be in the FD and now he is working for Pfizer.
He's on the board.
So he's reaping some of those profits and he's feeling a little bit of nervous because what does it look like if they have to look for booster shots saying you have to still wear a mask if you get the vaccine?
Well, people are starting to think this must be junk.
It doesn't work.
And so you have kind of a situation where Gottlieb is going after Walensky at the CDC.
He says that he thinks it's unnecessary.
He came out yesterday and said, I think this new mask mandate is unnecessary.
In three weeks, we'll be through this, he said.
And he's probably paying attention to India, which I think is only about 7% vaccinated.
They had a big spike with Delta because that's where it originated.
It was originally called the Indian variant, but people thought that might be racist.
So they decided to call it the Delta variant.
It went like this, it spiked up.
Everyone was talking about India, the worst in the world.
Nobody's vaccinated.
And then it went like this and dropped like a rock.
And nobody talks about India anymore.
And the same thing happened with the UK, as we said yesterday.
It spiked up really big.
Then they actually got rid of their mask mandate and it went down, regardless of whether they had the mandate or not.
So Gottlieb is banking on this literally because he's worried that his product is kind of a piece of junk.
You know, the rule is if you follow science, you have to give up common sense.
And that's what they do.
Their science doesn't permit you to use just a little bit of common sense.
And, you know, in the old days, you know, the families knew a little bit about infectious diseases.
And there was a parental responsibility for seeing that the kids would get natural immunity from all the childhood diseases.
So it isn't like there would be an absence of a concern for the kids if we give up and don't depend on Fauci for this information.
But I think this thing on Scott Godley and Pfizer is very important because it sounds like he's coming our way.
And he might just because it's the right thing to do.
But it might not be, his decision might not be that wonderful.
It might be very, very pragmatic.
Because the other way you could look at it is if he, if, if, if there is another virus coming and this thing goes on and he endorses this and they say Fauci gets fired.
I mean, the American people, especially, you know, for all the people who are resisting now, there are thousands, if not millions more just waiting for the signal.
So that means when the next variant comes, Pfizer may not be in the driver's seat.
They may not get to drive it like they are now, and they won't be believable.
So we can't tell what the motivations are.
But I thought it was very interesting that somebody from the FDA as well as Pfizer now has changed his tune.
He's coming around to a more logical position.
What I think everyone recognizes, even people that we would view as the opposition, i.e. the mainstream media, that the rollout of this new regulation was absolutely botched in a classic way.
Because Walensky came out and said, okay, breakthrough cases, everyone's got to wear a mask indoors now, vaccinated or not.
And people say, okay, well, where's the data?
Was there a new study?
Did something new come out?
Where are you getting this data from?
And she said, well, we have unpublished data that we, you know, we're not going to show you.
And people were skeptical, rightly skeptical.
Some have suggested that they used a study that came out of India that actually failed a peer review and was yanked.
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And they even in that study, they used a vaccine that is not in use in the United States.
That's suggested that the one thing they cited, they haven't cited the data, but people are catching on.
And, you know, Steve Doocy from Fox gives Jensaki a hard time.
He's the only one who asked tough questions at the White House press briefing.
And here's what he asked yesterday.
Obvious question.
If vaccines work, then why do people who have the vaccine now need to wear masks again?
And here's what Jen Saki said.
Listen to this answer, Dr. Paul.
Because the public health leaders in our administration have made the determination that is a way to make sure they are protected.
Their loved ones are protected.
Makes absolutely no sense.
They can't back it up right now.
They're probably going to pull something out of their ear eventually, but they roll out with this new order that will have massive changes in the country.
We're going back to the dark days of 2020, and they have nothing to back the decision up with.
Well, when you hear talk like that, it becomes very annoying to me because we're talking about something they can't know the answers to, and they shouldn't even be involved.
Where did they get this authority?
Is it in the Constitution that they should be protecting us against everybody and telling them what they should put into their bodies?
Most Americans are waking up to that and they should.
But I wanted to mention also, there was an article about how effective the vaccine is, because if that isn't, if it's very effective, you know, Pfizer gets all the publicity for it.
But it wasn't as good as they thought.
It falls to 84% effective after six months.
So this was considered not good news.
But guess what?
The pro-vaccine people turned it into a positive news.
Well, it's not too bad.
I'm glad we have this information because now we know we need a third shot.
So to say, you know, no matter what, this test show, if it's negative, we have to have the third shot.
So that's how they took that answer.
But they knew disapproval as if the FDA is the proper place to go.
You know, most people that I know that care about how things operate in a free market is and a constitutional republic.
This isn't something they're supposed to do.
The FDA, there will be an FDA, but it will be private.
Somebody's going to do it.
And it doesn't mean that they're going to have perfection, but you don't have a Dr. Fauci running everything.
That's where the problem is.
You have one bureaucrat in alliance with some one world guy like Gates.
And then you go to the company that once you do your bidding, you get a pretty good job there.
So it's very lucrative.
So it's pretty hard for them to be totally objective when it comes to this.
But this is amazing.
Bad news.
It wasn't as good as we thought.
Oh, no, not so bad.
We need just three shots for everybody.
But the people better not accept that.
They don't need it.
And that's what this whole thing is about in the last couple of days.
They show they've overstepped their bounds.
So I think the third shot, what they're doing is using this thing.
Oh, no, even if you had the virus, you've had the vaccine, you still can carry the Delta version of it, the variant.
So we have to give you masks to wear.
And it seems to me like the masks are, and I can understand it.
It's much more annoying than getting another shot.
Both are dangerous and dumb, but I think this whole thing is not going to go over well.
And we shouldn't let them get away with saying bad news about the efficacy of a medication means that we just have to give you more of it.
Yeah, the one thing we're not talking about now is the VARES database, the database of adverse reactions, where more than 12,000 people have died, have been reported to have died in a way that's possibly related to the vaccine.
Remember in the swine flu, I think it was just a dozen or so died from that vaccine when they pulled it right away.
And now we're seeing 12,000.
We're not talking about that.
You know what else?
Something they're not talking about, Dr. Paul, is a little country called Sweden.
No lockdowns.
They never had them.
They never had a mask mandate.
They never had a vaccination mandate.
And over the past month, they've had zero COVID deaths.
They've defeated COVID by letting the virus work through society as it normally does.
Here's a couple of things that I noticed, Dr. Paul, that are, you know, first of all, here's one that's questioning.
This is an article we both saw.
It was in the Chronicle.
And they're quoting Robert Wachter.
He's a chairman of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco.
Pretty serious guy, obviously.
But he has an obvious question with regard to this new mask order if you're vaccinated.
And he says, if we're seeing more breakthroughs, is it just because the virus is better and the vaccine doesn't hold up quite as well?
Or is the efficacy of the vaccines beginning to wane independent of the Delta?
That's the question that no one is asking.
Is this a vaccine that's very short term and you're going to have to get many, many shots?
And here's something that doesn't make sense.
And here's Rachel Walinski in her presser yesterday.
Now, think about this logic.
I made a note yesterday when I read it.
This is the worst logic I have ever heard.
She said the threat of a variant that is immune to the current vaccine is the exact reason why more Americans must get vaccinated with that vaccine.
So it makes no sense.
There's a threat of a variant coming that'll elude this vaccine.
So we better get out there and take this vaccine right away.
It doesn't make sense.
And I think more and more people are noticing that.
In a normal world, Walensky has made so many gaffes from back in March where she had a sense of impending doom to her endless flip-flops, at least as bad as Fauci.
She's a failure in this position and she really needs to go, I would say, immediately.
But of course, that's only the symptom of a bigger problem.
Well, all I can say is they're giving us a lot of ammunition to do what I'd like to do is to expose them, let the people decide, let them lose confidence in this whole system.
And when you hear the stories like you just told, that just gives us more ammunition and we have to just keep pounding away at it.
You know, I see that there was an article about the groups of people, there are certain groups.
Everybody's measured by groups, not by individuals.
And there are certain groups that are more obedient than others.
But the least obedient group they listed were the people who identified as white evangelicals.
Oh boy, don't ever be one of those guys because they're the most dangerous.
Why couldn't that be a double whammy?
You know, for our side of the argument.
First is they shouldn't be practicing medicine.
They're inept.
They're doing a lousy job.
But what about the religious element?
There used to even be a little bit of respect for separation of church and state, but not now.
They closed the churches down during lockout.
A lot of churches didn't open due to the pressure of the government.
So it's more than just one element of our liberties that are being challenged.
But like I say, the more foolish they get, the more people should wake up.
I do want to bring up something I found a little bit humorous.
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And I think we talked about this particular restaurant a while back.
And that was the restaurant in Huntington Beach.
And from the very beginning, he has not cooperated.
He has resisted, never had any violence involved, nothing.
And yet he has stayed open.
And he put up a sign.
His sign out there.
Supposedly says that you can't come in here unless you prove you have not been vaccinated.
So he wasn't looking for him, he wasn't playing that game.
But of course you know theoretically how can you prove you work by vaccinating.
You know, with it's a, it's a thing, just to make the point, how silly some of this stuff gets.
But uh, but he deserves a lot of credit for uh having stood his ground and uh doing it the right way.
Uh, and fortunately they uh haven't decided to put him in prison or find some other little thing that's going on, and I sure hope our mentioning him once again doesn't get him into any trouble.
Well, dr Paul, i'll just finish up by saying yes, that there there was a spike in the summer, as there is uh, but thankfully, as people know about viruses would say uh, the variants are less deadly and that's good news.
Uh, a lot more people get them.
They're more transmissible but they're less deadly, as what we're seeing uh, in places like Missouri is we're seeing it just getting over the threshold and it'll begin to do what we saw in India and the Uk, drop off very quickly.
So in that sense uh, Gottlieb is right, within a couple of three weeks uh, this is going to be gone by the radar and thankfully, if you look at deaths uh, they're not significant as they were last year when there was a spike, so that's very good news.
Um, it doesn't stop the hysterical people from demanding our freedoms and our liberties uh, but those of us who are rational are, uh are, encouraged by what we're seeing uh.
The other thing, the final thing, dr Paul, is I would say that we're on pins and needles about the conference right now.
I did send out an email to everyone that holds a ticket uh, that we're worried about what might happen if the hysteria uh catches uh, but we will not hold a uh Covid, restricted uh event at all.
So uh, if you're, if you're, a finger crosser, cross your fingers.
If you're a prayer, say a prayer uh, that we'll be able to continue with the event.
Dr Paul oh very, very good Daniel uh, I want to close by praising a congressman.
Uh, if I met this congressman, I do not recall.
I see him on the television, I know he's a good conservative and I know he has to be a pretty good congressman because he represents part of the district I used to have and he he gave a speech yesterday where he got fed up and he let them have it of how ridiculous he did really did a fantastic job, of how silly all this stuff was, and there was an amendment on the floor that he got time for.
He probably introduced it, because you can introduce an amendment to adjourn anytime you want.
And that is priority.
So they had a vote.
It wasn't all lopsided.
There were some people, a significant number of people who voted to adjourn.
And his argument was all this stuff about viruses and all these things.
And they're ignoring all the big issues.
There's all the big issues and they're concentrating on this.
So he deserves a positive.
If anybody's listening to us here today, it's from his district.
You ought to give him a compliment.
His district was out, you know, just west of San Antonio.
And the two cities that I used to have was New Brompels and San Marcos.
And he still has that district.
Anyway, he needs encouragement because it's the kind of spirit that I think we're looking for.
We need more of that and we need it to spread.
And this is our goal is to get people excited about it and put in the energy to it because you have to feel good about speaking out to resist what's happening in a peaceful manner.
Because that is the tool that we have.
It's the most powerful tool you can have.
And we have to defend our position based on principles and the Constitution and doing it in a diplomatic and a professional way.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.