The CDC’s New Unscientific Mask Rules are Going to Hit Your Wallet Hard
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is going to issue new mask guidelines and they will be more expensive and equally useless as the ones before.
As reported by the Washington Post, they will update their guidelines with the following, if people “can tolerate wearing a KN-95 or N-95 mask all day”, they should do so.
Of course, they offer no science behind it or any actual study showing the benefits of wearing an ‘improperly’ fitted N-95 or KN-95 mask.
We have known since the beginning of Covid-19 that pieces of cloth, bandanas, and even those Chinese made surgical masks are ineffective against the spread of Covid-19. Anthony Fauci told us that much when he insisted, before flip flopping, that masks were useless and unnecessary.
Now the CDC wants Americans to forgo the cheap and ineffective masks, for a more expensive, hard to find, and just as ineffective N-95 or KN-95 mask.
The reality is that unless you are properly fitted to wear any of those models, the masks will not do what they are supposed to do. Additionally, N-95 and KN-95 masks are supposed to be replaced every 8 hours with a new one to be effective.
An improperly fitted N-95 or KN-95 mask can be more dangerous to one’s health that not wearing one at all. It can restrict your oxygen intake and increase your intake of C02.
Just like the toilet paper frenzy and binged buying, these masks are hard to find because the hoarders are already at it. Companies are raising the prices as fast as they can make them, with prices as high as $80.00 dollars for a pack of 40 KN-95, from a low of $17.00 dollars back in November. Talk about price gauging.
It seems Omicron has been pumping the sales and influenced the CDC decision to issue new guidelines, but the fact remains that Omicron is less dangerous than the Delta variant and your chances of landing in the hospital because of it are minimal.
It is obvious the wealthy will have no problem purchasing these masks, but low-income families cannot afford to pay $80.00 for a pack of 40. A pack of 40 only gives you enough masks for an average of 5 days ‘protection’, for a single individual, if one follows the manufacturer’s guidelines.
The CDC has been all over the place about masking or not. They have changed their guidelines as fast as they can to placate the mainstream media and the blue check marked virtue signalers on Twitter. Why this time would be any different?
Who is going to certify the authenticity of the hundreds of N-95 and KN-95 flooding the market? Because it is stamped “KN-95 or N-95” does not necessarily make it so. Buyer beware is my suggestion.
We have reached a 40-year inflationary record of 7%. Things are more expensive; food, gas, electricity, heat, you name it. Now the CDC wants to impose more burdens on American citizens by telling them an N-95 or KN-95 is the answer to Covid-19 salvation. Poppycock!
Decisions, decisions. Food or masks?