CDC Mask Guidance Update, Rochelle Walensky PBS Interview
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced updated guidance stating that fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear masks in most settings. The policy shift follows a reported one-third decline in national COVID-19 cases and new data regarding vaccine effectiveness in real-world settings. President Joe Biden emphasized that the new rules rely on an honor system rather than federal enforcement mechanisms.
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00:00 I hate this, i hate dogs. I hate people. I didn't like it. Adam Curry, John C Devorah. It's Sunday May 16th 2021! This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination Episode 1347! This...is no agenda. Free at last! And broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas. Capital of the drone star state In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's gloomy once again At least in a northern part Where I am I'm John C. Duvorak It's Crackpot & Buzzkill Yeah baby yeah free we're free We're good to go
00:42 Nothing wrong. No mask, no vax head and no mask is good wearing masks in San Francisco? No one's wearing masks in San Francisco everyone Oh everyone oh but that's so wrong So wrong they're not following CDC guidance this So I did go to the San Francisco meetup And that's where I saw that everyone still wearing masks in San Francisco yes, and they're still wearing masks in Santa's a yeah I think you need some instruction. I saw a picture and you weren't wearing your mask correctly What? I was... no, it doesn't say. Was i wearing a mask or not? Yes you were! This picture is great. Is John wearing this mask on his forehead like diagonal across your forehead very good but this goes along with I'm vaccinated are you vaccinated yes I'm vaccinated John are you vaccinated
01:36 I don't know what... yes, yes. As a matter of fact i am vaccinated. Of course you're vaccinated! You could just say it there's no lie i'm vaccinated i've been vaccinated i'm vax to the max not for covid but i've been vaccinated we don't have to say that part so the keeper tried it out she's nuts and but she didn't get video which is a point off she went to nordstroms without a mask walked through the whole place shopped around No one asked her anything. Then at the makeup department, finally the lady came over and said, uh ma'am you have to wear your mask And she said what? You don't trust the CDC and our president? The answer is no! The answer is put your mask on lady or you're out of the store But I thought it was a valiant effort
02:27 Yeah, I think it's still...I think there is still leeway for people that run retail operations to have their own rules. It's like no shirt no service and no gun stuff like that No, that's fine! And no guns, no shirts, no shoes But let's listen to the actual facts straight from the horse's mouth and when i say horse's mouth I mean in this case This is the director of CDC The Centers for Disease Control on PBS so this is a good network So there are no phonying or faking around And she is going to tell us, I'll tell you up front. She's gonna tell us that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask and you don't have to worry about people lying! This is incredibly good news
03:10 But if you kind of listen to what she's saying, it gets even more interesting. Let's start... You know there are several things that were all happening at exactly the same time which I think really motivated us to move forward Okay so something motivated them to get forward? I agree the CDC change was sudden People were very shocked They didn't know what to do It was confusing Very, very confusing but something motivated them. The first is over the last two weeks our case rates in this country have come down by about a third. Ah that would be it they couldn't hide the fact that cases are going down and so now they're going to say well
03:48 Because we're vaccinating cases are going down. Likely very much due to the scale up of vaccinations that we've been able to do. Second is that you know, we have new science now basically shows that the vaccine is working its effectiveness in real-world settings outside of our trials Ooh, oh I'm sorry. Did you just call this whole thing a trial? Effectiveness in real world settings outside of the trial...outside of our trials has demonstrated that it works just as well as it did in the trials that these vaccines are working against variants and then if you are vaccinated your very unlikely to be able to get asymptomatic disease and therefore transmit to other people
04:33 So this is a very loaded one besides the obvious trial flub because of course we're still at a trial I Disagree with that. That wasn't really she was I know what she was I didn't feel that what you your interpretation is correct Okay, then let's continue right but meet but uh It seems to me that this is contradicting all the reports of people who get the vaccine then get COVID. If you get COVID... We'll get to that section in a moment She goes on about that good Oh no, we got all of this So the only question people really care about is oh my god
05:11 Can I be, what if people are lying? What if they take off their mask and they have it. They're seething infected individuals! Is it safe?! I may be able to go out without a mask. I've been fully vaccinated but there may be others without a mask who have not been vaccinated And what is my risk from them in this new world, this new set of guidelines? So if you are fully vaccinated the risk is extraordinarily low and that was why based on the studies that we have been published and that we have seen. The risk to the vaccinated person is extraordinarily rough. I want to emphasize that if unvaccinated people choose to take off... Extraordinary what?! Low! Extraordinarily low! No she didn't say rough
05:56 to the vaccinated person is extraordinarily rough low. I think row it's how her colleagues speak they do that what was she trying to say there this sounds like a true try to get out comment just ordinarily low listen again on the studies that we have we've been published and that we have seen the risk to the vaccinated person is extraordinarily rough now I think it's just the extraordinarily she got hung up on the are Nah, I don't think it's anything. But it is extraordinarily low! Low? I want to emphasize that if unvaccinated people choose to take off their mask and they have not been vaccinated then the risk to them is still the same as it was before. Oh no! We really want to empower people to take this responsibility into their own hands If you are unvaccinated please get vaccinated to decrease that risk
06:48 And if you don't choose to be vaccinated, then please continue to wear a mask and practice all of the mitigation strategies we have said up until now. But Republicans- This truly is an honor system is it not? I mean, we heard President Biden say today there aren't going to be enforcement mechanisms are not going to go around arresting people who haven't been vaccinated who are not willing to- Who want too I safe to take your mask off and we felt that was important information for the public to have. If you're not vaccinated, that's again is taking your responsibility for your own health into your own hands and we would say protect yourself. We would recommend vaccination and if not then I would recommend wearing a mask
07:46 This is great! So there's very low risk if you're not vaccinated. So there's no problem, there's no problem and in fact she even threw this in... What we've done is we've empowered the American people to make their own decisions about their own health Oh thank you thank you I'm thanking for empowering me to make my own decisions now I'm happy, i think this is good. I think there's reason for it. I think this phase is over we need to move to the next phase of The Great Reset but we can't get there yet not according to MSNBC. MSNBC is not buying what the CDC says It's very troubling for them personally including primetime star Rachel Maddow.
