WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Several months ago, Senator Rand Paul was suspended from Youtube after he said that cloth masks don’t work.
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Now CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen has said that cloth masks are essentially useless. When asked this week about people attending Holiday parties, she said, “If you choose to go…wear a three-ply surgical mask. Don’t wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There’s no place for them in light of Omicron. And so wear a high-quality mask, at least a three-ply surgical mask.”
I do not think that Mayor De Blasio should cancel NYC’s New Year celebration. This is outdoors & requires vaccination. Yes, omicron is surging, but we need to continue activities that are of high-value while adding precautions that reduce risk. @BilldeBlasio @VictorBlackwell pic.twitter.com/tyOfQ5fT7g
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) December 20, 2021
If President Trump or any other Republican made these comments, it would be labeled misinformation. This is not mere speculation. When Senator Rand Paul said it in July, Youtube suspended him.
“Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work,” Paul, an eye surgeon, said in a video. “They don’t prevent infection.”
NBC news said that Paul’s comments were “false”.
Paul said in a follow-up video that he was referring to cloth and over-the-counter masks. He went further, saying that the government’s endorsement of these masks can be dangerous, because people do things they would otherwise avoid, mistakenly believing they are protected.
Now CNN has made the same “false” statement that Paul was banned for saying. Yet Youtube is not suspending CNN. Rather than misinformation, now it’s science. Which means that the media labels “misinformation” not based on facts, but whether they like the person who is stating the facts.
All this proves that Democrats, who claim to “follow the science”, are doing no such thing.
New York State and other Democrat-controlled states and cities are reimplementing mask mandates in response to Omicron. If you wear a cloth mask you are fulfilling the mandate. Kids in schools are wearing cloth masks in the name of science.
Yet according to CNN they are “facial decorations”. Which means that the government is forcing us to do something useless, while people mistakenly think that they are preventing the spread, contradictory to science.
In response to Paul’s comments, Youtube wrote the following:
“We removed content from Senator Paul’s channel for including claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies. We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views.”
Um, nope. Their policies are not consistent. They don’t apply to CNN.
Youtube and the rest of the mainstream media owe Rand Paul an apology. He is a man of science, but because he is conservative and supports Trump, and he has the audacity to question Dr. Fauci and the CDC, he is branded a science denier, and everything he says, even studies and data, is automatically branded misinformation and dismissed by the liberal elites.
I’m curious who wrote this article, it well-written. Authors should be required to sign their names. Simply signing it as op-ed is not enough. Regarding YouTube’s rules – we all already know that it’s rules for thee and not for me.
Quality American N95 masks are widely available there days.
Not the same thing. She said three-ply surgical masks work. They can be bought over the counter. Rand Paul said over the counter masks don’t work.
For better or worse, YouTube is a private company and can set its own rules. They are NOT an extension of the government, and therefore are not subject to uphold the first amendment.