By Selwyn Duke

“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” So said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in a February 5 e-mail. It’s just one of the many indications that widespread masking is more COVID Ritual than science. What’s more, an Irish study cited on Fox News last night had found that it isn’t just that masking schoolchildren is useless — it’s actually dangerous to their health.

It’s not as if this is the first masking red flag we’ve gotten. Past studies have found that masks become as pathogen-laden Petri dishes on people’s faces, that they can restrict oxygen intake and induce dangerously high carbon dioxide levels in children’s bloodstreams, and that wearers may be inhaling unhealthful plastic microparticles from them. Despite this and ostensibly motivated by the COVID-19 Delta variant’s prevalence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that our country’s 56 million children and teens wear masks regardless of vaccination status, their communities’ infection levels, and even though children aren’t generally threatened by, and don’t seem to readily transmit, the virus.

Of course, the CDC has flip-flopped on masks more than once, following the lead of Fauci, who changes COVID positions like clothes. Yet even if you believe CDC 5.0 and Fauci 9.0 (unless I missed a few iterations) and reckon that masking reduces contagion, a simple rule must be remembered.

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