Dr. Scott Gottlieb's Unbelievable Confession: 'A Cloth Mask is Not Going to Protect You' from Airborne Viruses

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA chief who quickly transitioned after leaving office to become a Pfizer board member, has made an admission about cloth masks that should make Americans question the "science" they have been told was unquestionable all along.

Gottlieb appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" with host Margaret Brennan and punctured the widespread belief that cloth masks provide any significant protection from airborne respiratory viruses, such as Covid-19.

"I have been looking at pediatric hospitalizations at this record high," Brennan claimed. "And concerned about sending my son back into a pre-school even with a mask on."

"What do you tell parents?" she asked breathlessly. "Are cloth masks just not good enough anymore?"

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At this stage of the pandemic, cloth masks don't provide much protection against COVID-19, according to @ScottGottliebMD.

"Cloth masks aren't going to provide a lot of protection, that's the bottom line," he said. "This is an airborne illness. We now understand that. And a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. It could protect better through droplet transmission, something like the flu, but not this coronavirus."

Dr. Gottlieb goes on to make wild claims about the severity of Covid-19 among the pediatric population, claiming that more than 600 pediatric deaths (95% of them with underlying health conditions) among a population of 73 million under age 18 is a cause for masking children and mandating they be immunized despite the vaccines failing to significantly stop the spread. Covid-related mortality is approximately one percent of all pediatric deaths in the past two years.

Margaret Brennan, for her part, also fed the hysteria of the risk in Covid to children by making a misleading claim about child hospitalizations. Dr. Anthony Fauci recently disabused parents of this notion.

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Fauci: "If you look at the children that are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with Covid, as opposed to because of Covid."

“And what we mean by that: If a child goes into the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” Fauci said.

Fauci had once shared a similarly candid assessment as Gottlieb's on the efficacy of masks in a February 2020 email to an HHS official.

"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection," he wrote in the email.

"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material," he said. "It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you."

That was two years ago.