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<\/p>\nBRETT: Last week was a huge week when we saw the change in the standards on the CDC requirements — not requirements, I guess. I guess the recommendation as it relates to masking and where you mask and how you mask and when we mask and do you mask and whom do you mask and all that sort of stuff, right? Well, there are a number of CDC updates that I think are worth kind of taking a look at, especially looking at how the narrative on masking and covid-19 has sort of manifested itself in different ways over the last number of months.<\/p>\n
A great example of what the mainstream media was doing a month before the election to make President Trump appear to be ineffective in handling this crisis. Last October 14th, 2020, on CNN\u2019s “New Day” Co-Host John Berman said to former medical school professor William Hazeltine that we\u2019ve been worried about the possible winter surge from covid. It\u2019s not even a month into fall and we\u2019re seeing this alarming increase. So what does that tell you?<\/p>\n
HAZELTINE: It tells us that we don\u2019t have this pandemic, this epidemic under control. And I\u2019m extremely concerned that the president is being advised by people who speak of herd immunity. Herd immunity is another word for mass murder. That is exactly what it is if you allow this virus to spread, as they are advocating. We\u2019re looking at two to six million Americans dead. Not just this year, but every year. There is no such thing as herd immunity. This is an unmitigated disaster for our country.<\/p>\n
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BRETT: You know, if you walked up to William Hazeltine on his own, just sitting in a diner or a coffee shop and he\u2019s sipping his coffee and you walked up to him and said, “Yes, Professor Hazeltine, a question for you. I believe herd immunity is another word for mass murder,” he\u2019d flip out. He\u2019d lose his mind. Because he knows under normal circumstances making that assertion is foolishness. But he also understands that he needed to go and be the lead guest on the fear factory, which is CNN\u2019s “New Day,” where they get everything revved up nice and early in the morning so they\u2019re upset and panicky. And that\u2019s what he did.<\/p>\n
And given what the CDC director said last Thursday and again in the news cycle this weekend, there\u2019s a big gap between the reality of the horrible statistics in our country and this worst case scenario presented by the CNN reporter and host. Now let\u2019s go back to August 7th of last year when Dr. Anthony Fauci said this.<\/p>\n
FAUCI: We don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna be 50%, 60%. Hopefully I\u2019d like to see 75% or more. But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach. You\u2019ve gotta think of the vaccine as a tool to be able to get a pandemic to no longer be a pandemic but to be something that\u2019s well controlled.<\/p>\n
BRETT: What? Well, here\u2019s Rush reminding us that it was Andrew Cuomo that messed things up in New York with the virus. It wasn\u2019t Trump. Here\u2019s Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Andrew Cuomo is out saying Trump had nothing to do with the vaccine. Andrew Cuomo, who couldn\u2019t have done 5% what Trump has done. People died with Andrew Cuomo running the coronavirus circumstances in New York unnecessarily. So now Andrew Cuomo is just livid that Trump called him on the, you know, Fredo\u2019s brother said, “I\u2019m not accepting any vaccine that comes from Donald Trump.” Trump said, okay, fine, we\u2019ll put you at the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n
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BRETT: That was the only person saying that about the vaccine. Kamala Harris said she wouldn\u2019t take it, she wasn\u2019t gonna trust the Trump vaccine. Gavin Newsom — that\u2019s right — Gavin Newsom came out and said, “Well, we\u2019re gonna test and see what — what the vaccine\u2019s really made of. I\u2019ve got my own independent experts here in California. We\u2019ll be testing all this stuff.” Now, if you flip any of those people to today — and I know it\u2019s whataboutism, I know people hate the whataboutism, but if you were to flip any of those people today and you would have say DeSantis in Florida, McMaster in South Carolina, Abbott in Texas, and they come out and say the same sort of things about Joe Biden\u2019s coronavirus rollout and Anthony Fauci and they say this about — that the herd immunity is mass murder, all that sort of stuff, you would literally have news reporters from the cable outlets camped on their front lawns yelling and screaming and demanding retractions and apologies and all those sorts of things. And yet, and yet each and every time the Big Government pharma crew — and I\u2019m not talking about pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m talking about your CDC types, your Dr. Faucis, et cetera, every time they put out a warning, they have to walk it back. It was only about four weeks ago that Dr. Rochelle Walensky, or Rochelle Walensky, the one who is running CDC now, came on television and said, “I\u2019m so worried, I\u2019m so worried and upset. I feel like it\u2019s — we\u2019re going to a really dark place right now.” Now all of a sudden they come out with a revised mask mandate numbers and — and who has to wear it and where you have to pair it and all that sort of stuff. What changed? Politics. The Democratic Party and politicians that come from that understand the politics of manipulation of the masses. They get it better than anybody.<\/p>\n
They absolutely do. Remember when they were telling you in the midst of the George Floyd riots, at the hottest point, right, we\u2019re talking early June, mid-June of last year, there were doctors inside the NIH and the CDC and at well respected medical schools around the country who were saying, don\u2019t worry enforcing social distancing or the mask mandates during riots because systemic racism is a public health crisis worse than what you\u2019re seeing with the pandemic.<\/p>\n