{"id":243210,"date":"2021-05-06T05:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-actions-masking-the-science-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T05:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:12:30","slug":"bidens-actions-masking-the-science-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-actions-masking-the-science-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden&#8217;s actions masking the science: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28ead8a17f1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28ead8a17f1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-actions-masking-the-science-devine\/#Feds_Do_Giuliani_injustice\" >Feds Do Giuliani injustice\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden&#8217;s actions masking the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Everyone is laughing about the weird perspective in the photo of the Bidens visiting the Carters in Georgia last week, but the most significant thing about the image was that neither the president nor Jill Biden was wearing a mask around 96-year-old Jimmy Carter and 93-year-old Rosalynn, who also were sans mask.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And good for them. They were all acting perfectly in accordance with CDC guidance allowing vaccinated people to have small indoor gatherings without masks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So why on earth did the Bidens put their masks back on the minute they walked outside?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a political party that professes to \u201cfollow the science,\u201d it is a confusing message that erodes trust in public-health experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While his mouth might say the opposite, the president\u2019s mask tells us he doesn\u2019t believe the vaccine works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden, or at least those around him, are perfectly aware that the message he sends by clinging to his mask is at odds with the current science of COVID-19 and the need to encourage stragglers to get vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vaccinated since December, Biden was mocked around the world when he wore his mask during a virtual climate summit last month. Almost every other leader \u2014 from Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel to Canada\u2019s Justin Trudeau and the European Commission\u2019s Ursula von der Leyen \u2014 was boldly bare-faced on screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with members of the public wearing double masks the rest of their lives if that\u2019s what they want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the US president should not be modeling fear, especially at a time when vaccine hesitancy threatens to delay herd immunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"President Joe Biden wearing a mask outdoors at a rally in Duluth, Georgia on April 29, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-18165201 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/AFP_9922AJ.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/AFP_9922AJ.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/AFP_9922AJ.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/AFP_9922AJ.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/AFP_9922AJ.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden wearing a mask outdoors at a rally in Duluth, Georgia on April 29, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019re not getting leadership from Biden\u2019s COVID czar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, either. Alhough fully vaccinated, Fauci says he still won\u2019t eat indoors, go to a movie theater or get on a plane, and he wants the rest of America to be just as timid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was on CNN Wednesday defending the CDC\u2019s absurd guidelines for summer camps, which require vaccinated adults and kids over the age of 2 to be masked at all times, even outdoors. The rules are at odds with the CDC\u2019s own advice that there is minimal risk of transmission outdoors and that children are at low risk of illness or spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call [the guidelines excessive] but they certainly are conservative,\u201d Fauci chortled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CDC makes decisions based on science.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That would be reassuring if we could believe it. But after The Post\u2019s revelation this week that some of the CDC guidelines on school reopening were dictated by teacher unions, you have to wonder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American Federation of Teachers shamelessly described the CDC as its \u201cthought partner.\u201d How humiliating for the CDC, a once-respected institution paid a whopping $8 billion last year to dispense impartial health guidance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allowing vested interests to dictate public-health policy is the exact definition of politicizing science.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Biden is not alone among progressives who have turned away from their professed faith in \u201cthe science.\u201d An illuminating article in The Atlantic this week, headlined <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/05\/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown\/618780\/\">\u201cThe Liberals Who Can\u2019t Quit Lockdown,\u201d<\/a> describes progressives who refuse to give up masks and other pandemic restrictions in defiance of scientific evidence and data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their \u201cdiligence against \u00adCOVID-19 remains an expression of political identity \u2014 even when that means overestimating the disease\u2019s risks or setting limits far more strict than what public-health guidelines permit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For many progressives, \u201cextreme vigilance was in part about opposing Donald Trump.\u201d If Trump said, \u201cKeep schools open,\u201d then they would do everything they could to keep schools closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not science, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attitude of pious leftists who have turned mask-wearing into a morality test is neatly encapsulated in a comment overheard in Washington, DC: \u201cI guess I\u2019m vaccinated so I don\u2019t have to wear a mask outside \u2014 but . . . I really don\u2019t want people to think I\u2019m a Republican.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is Biden\u2019s message and, politically, it makes sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He can\u2019t admit that the vaccine rollout was well under way at a rate of 1.6 million shots in arms the day he took office, or he won\u2019t be able to pretend it\u2019s his triumph. He can\u2019t admit that the economy was storming back in a nice V shape before he did a thing, or he won\u2019t be able to justify the $6 trillion in crisis spending his party is ramming through Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" alt=\"President Biden holding up a mask while speaking outside of the White House on April 27, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-18165210 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_BIDEN.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_BIDEN.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_BIDEN.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_BIDEN.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_BIDEN.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden holding up a mask while speaking outside of the White House on April 27, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So Biden needs Americans to remain masked and fearful just long enough for him to claim credit for the end of the pandemic and the strength of the economy. He once suggested that Independence Day would be our date with freedom, but this week. he pushed it back to Labor Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He offered no science to justify the delay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enough. The introverts and opportunists have had their day \u2014 or rather, 14 months \u2014 and now it\u2019s time for the rest of us to come out of the closet, vaccination papers in hand and actual science to back us up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police officers, grocery clerks, construction workers, bus drivers, medical professionals, Amazon sortation associates, waiters, priests, private-school teachers, drug dealers and homeless people, all have been braving human contact for months, so it\u2019s time for the rest of us to ditch the PJs and get back to the land of the living \u2014 or else what is the point of this great metropolis?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Feds_Do_Giuliani_injustice\"><\/span>Feds Do Giuliani injustice\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to understand why federal prosecutors are treating former Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a villain, to the extent of raiding his apartment at dawn and spying on his iCloud account with a covert warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>History shows that former President Donald Trump\u2019s former lawyer has been begging to cooperate with investigations. He had information about the Biden family\u2019s operations in Ukraine that he was eager to share, when Trump was being impeached for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" alt=\"Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his home raided by the FBI on April 28, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-18165164 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/USA-GIULIANI_PROFILE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/USA-GIULIANI_PROFILE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/USA-GIULIANI_PROFILE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/USA-GIULIANI_PROFILE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/USA-GIULIANI_PROFILE.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his home raided by the FBI on April 28, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Jonathan Ernst\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In November 2019, the month before the impeachment, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> leaks about an investigation by the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York were damaging Giuliani. He said he wanted to confront any allegations head on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the office rebuffed his offer to be interviewed, so his lawyer, Robert Costello, asked a well-connected former official at the Department of Justice for advice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were faced with Hobson\u2019s choice,\u201d says Costello. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t go to the [New York US attorney] so we thought about going to [US Attorney John] Durham in the District of Connecticut.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They decided against contacting Durham, the special counsel investigating the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax, because they thought it would further antagonize the New York US attorney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Costello\u2019s contact came through, and he soon received a call from the US attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that [the Department of Justice] had directed him to call me and set up a meeting with myself and Mayor Giuliani to receive the evidence we had about the Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani and Costello flew to Pittsburgh on Jan. 29, 2020, at their own expense and were met by FBI agents in black Chevy Suburbans and driven to FBI headquarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There, they met for three hours with the US attorney, the chief assistant US attorney, the chief of the criminal division, two other attorneys, the special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh FBI office, his deputy and three other FBI special agents, according to Costello.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani provided documents and a list of witnesses to back his tales of skulduggery involving Joe Biden, the firing of Ukraine\u2019s chief prosecutor and Hunter Biden\u2019s $83,000-a-month gig on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. Giuliani\u2019s information has been validated since, and yet the New York US attorney is treating him like an uncooperative witness. That\u2019s not the way justice is supposed to work.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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