Edited my comment with a couple questions.

Yup, the claim that Fauci said “masks don’t work” was grasped onto and used as political fuel for Trump’s supporters and his conspiracy-minded friends in the media.

Two questions:

Search mask effectiveness for covid - the CDC and Mayo are among the top results, both of which still recommend mask usage (including data) for reducing the contraction/transmission of covid. This directly contradicts your view. What do you make of that?

How would you have liked the mask policy to be handled in America?

There’s no point to continue arguing this - it has been debunked and settled. I know it’s tough to accept that a changing pandemic resulted in changing guidance from the CDC, but to expect things to always be the same is simply rigid, black and white thinking.

Fauci’s statement early on in the pandemic was to avoid a mask shortage for healthcare workers. Not that you care about the details, but that was well documented. Time went on, the mask supply changed, ergo advice from the CDC changed.

I do agree with you that the half-assed attempt to mask (as well as social distance and vaccinate) in America cost lives.

You’re surprised that people trusted masks (from your first comment), but now you think the way masking was done was counterproductive? How do you reconcile these two points?

So you’re good with masks, but not Trump

Your autocorrect must have changed “masks” to “Trump”

You think you’re smart, so I guess that’s what’s important!

Cops are only racist, not sexist.