CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today Keep upOn Wednesday, the mental psychosis was used to keep viewers in constant fear of COVID-19. The masking required as the only protection against sickness and death. Specifically, they argued flying’s “less safe” And “cases will continue to go up”Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ended the CDC mandate to fly and use public transportation.
CBS brought in Dr. Tom Frieden (ex-CDC chief) to back their arguments. Frieden didn’t waste any time, arguing required masking is needed in the much the same way we have drunk driving laws, food inspections, and requirements for medical prescriptions:
[W]e rely on the society to make sure that your kid doesn’t get hit by a drunk driver, that the food we eat in a restaurant doesn’t make us terribly sick, that the rest — that the medicines we pick up at the pharmacy are not contaminated. The government and society must be prepared to defend us against any new or more severe health risks.
Socialist co-host Tony Dokoupil brought up immunocompromised people, which led Frieden to insist the way to ensure their safety is “if everyone is masking” and “[t]hat’s why we are all connected and…that my health depends on what you do.”
Fill-in co-host Vladimir Duthiers asked if it would be safe for his immunocompromised father to fly so long as he was masked, but Frieden replied it wouldn’t because, due to Mizelle wiping out the mandates, “flying just got less safe.”
Gayle King (co-host, Democratic Party donor) raised the bar by lamenting that “cases are already going up now”It is unclear if the decision will worsen it.
But worse yet, she condemned the notion that the government couldn’t forcibly demand everyone be masked:
That’s what I struggle with and I struggle with people making the decision I’m not going to mask. It doesn’t matter if you can’t wear a mask that only effects you. It can also affect so many people.
Ah, yes. Pesky freedom, Gayle!
Frieden validated her sheepish world and said it “doesn’t make a lot of sense” to grant us peons the opportunity to be maskless.
Only footnoting vaccinations and therapeutics, Frieden argued for continued masking for an unknown period because “a more dangerous variant” could arise that’s more deadly.
“We really need these kinds of tools to protect people, not just to save lives, but also to keep our economy growing,” He concluded.
Tom Costello, a long-time reporter for NBC, argued that masking is popular because of the popularity of masks. “kept them healthy for the past two years” People “are worried about a new COVID variant spreading fast with 2,600 deaths just last week.”
Costello cited a tweet from new White House COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish wishing everyone had given the CDC two more weeks of required masking to obtain enough data about the new variant, but that’s hollow given that time the government asked people to stay home two weeks to slow the spread.
Costello brought in MSNBC contributor Dr. Vin Gupta before ending with concerns about how Mizelle could have made it harder to keep people safe in future pandemics (click “expand”):
GUPTA – Is that the sort of precedent we want? Do you think that is the right type of precedent? This is terrible precedence.
SAVANNAH GUTHY: To change anything, the Justice Department will have to appeal the ruling in favor of the mask mandate. The Justice Department remains unsure about this.
COSTELLO : Yes. Justice might appeal if CDC is determined to enforce the mask mandate. The CDC has so far not spoken. Listen, Justice would likely not request a stay because the cat’s out of the bag. The idea that this could lead to political liability for the White House and President is not something people want. They are worried about the precedent. If the CDC is not allowed to enact these types of health measures in the event of another pandemic, then that’s something that they feel like they need to address now, appeal it now and try to establish a proper — in their view, a proper working relationship through this.
Savannah Guthrie was co-host and worried about it. “rolling the dice on a favorable ruling.”
In the 8:00 a.m. Eastern hour, Costello was back and reiterated how “quite a few people” have told him “they’re just not comfortable yet dropping the mask given the fact that COVID is spreading and…many people say they’ve been very healthy for the last two years, not even a cold.”
Wednesday’s spreading of psychological paralysis over COVID was made possible thanks to the help of advertisers such as Ensure (on CBS) and Kohl’s (on NBC). Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.
Click here for CBS and here to view the transcripts of April 20, respectively.
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