*Smart, intelligent scientific knowledge and thinking have said all along
that masks do not work, and social distancing does not work, and lockdowns
do not work. They are fear tactics. Multiple scientific studies that have
shown that they do not work.*
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Former FDA Chief Says Social Distancing Mandate ‘Wasn’t Based on Clear
Science’
By Jack Phillips <https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-jack-phillips>
March 21, 2021
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
<https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-commissioner> Scott Gottlieb said that the
six-foot social distancing
<https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-social-distancing> mandate that was
employed across much of the United States and the world to deal with the
CCP virus pandemic “wasn’t based on clear science.”
“This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single
costliest mitigation tactic that we’ve employed in response to COVID … and
it really wasn’t based on clear science. … We should have re-adjudicated
this much earlier,” he said in an interview
<https://twitter.com/CNBCClosingBell/status/1373017828866068498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1373017828866068498%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fone-year-ago-gather-crowds-masks-are-useless-only-few-percent-are-vulnerable>
with CNBC.
Amid the relaxation of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus
<https://www.theepochtimes.com/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html>
guidelines—including
one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying it’s
safe for schoolchildren to have three-foot distancing—Gottlieb suggested
that masks may also be safely removed.
“We now know that the vaccines dramatically reduce your chance of both
contracting COVID and becoming symptomatic to the point where you are going
to have a bad outcome; we also know it reduces asymptomatic disease and
reduces transmission … we are seeing that in the data,” he said.
Gottlieb also was asked about a public dispute between Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who also is a physician, about whether masks
should be worn after a recipient is vaccinated for the CCP virus, which
causes the disease COVID-19.
“You’re telling everyone to wear a mask,” Paul told Fauci, who has faced
increasing pushback over his statements in the press. “If we’re not
spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater? You have the vaccine and
you’re wearing two masks, isn’t that theater?”
Fauci responded by saying that “masks are not theater” and that he “totally
disagree[s]” with Paul’s statement.
Gottlieb said “both [Paul and Fauci] made valid points,” but noted that
“Senator Paul was right, we need to see light at the end of the tunnel and
have guidance that prescribes an environment where people can start doing
things again.”
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on March 19 that new studies have
shown that in schools, three-foot distancing is sufficient if other health
safeguards are in place. Studies have found that there is a low
transmission of the virus in schools.
“These include universal and correct use of masks, physical distancing,
hand washing, and respiratory etiquette, cleaning to maintain healthy
facilities and diagnostic testing with rapid and efficient contact tracing
in combination with isolation in quarantine and in collaboration with local
health departments,” Walensky told CNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/health/cdc-physical-distancing/index.html>.
