CNN:
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Sunday that people have to be honest with themselves when deciding whether to wear a mask after the agency lifted masking requirements for vaccinated people.
Honest?
“Well, I’m entering a bar at 11 a.m. Did you really think I was vaxxed?” asks Saturday Night Live’s Beck Bennett as “Man walks into a bar” without a mask during the show’s cold open.
“We’ve had a collapse of truth in this country,” Rep. Liz Cheney told CNN’s Jake Tapper Friday night. The House Republican caucus ousted Cheney from her leadership position last week for refusing to lie about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
A member of Cheney’s caucus was photographed helping Capitol security barricade the doors to the House chamber during the Jan. 6 Trump insurrection. Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia claimed last week it was little more than “a normal tourist visit.” To call it an insurrection is “a bold-faced lie,” he said.
You can trust him to be honest about his vaccination status.
Conservative New York Times columnist Brett Stephens dubs theirs the Reprobate-tarian Party “in thrall to a mendacious Mussolini manqué whose only saving grace is that he lacked the guile of a Vladimir Putin to competently steal the election.”
That’s more brutally blunt than honest. And it is a sad commentary on the sort of people who turned mask-wearing into a front in the culture war while promoting hydroxychloroquine as a cure for a disease they claimed was a hoax no worse than the flu as hundreds of thousands of corpses stacked up and supplies of body bags ran short. When COVID-19 vaccines finally arrived, they claimed the serum contained tracking microchips.
Sure, CDC, people like that need to be honest with themselves.
“Democrats see competence, Republicans see chaos” in President Joe Biden’s tenure so far, read a Washington Post Sunday headline.
“It is a crisis. It’s chaos. It is a catastrophe,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said at a news conference about the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border.
But nothing Donald Trump couldn’t cure with anaphora, aliteration, and a hefty dose of human rights violations.
As for the pandemic, new cases have plummeted since Biden took office and control of vaccine distribution.
I think that people who were not inclined to wear a mask were not inclined to wear a mask before Thursday,” Walensky told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked if she trusted that people would wear a mask if they were unvaccinated.
A bit of honesty mixed with wishful thinking then.