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Like i said i'm not in the US, but our "healthcare secretary" equivalent similarly uttered "mask don't work, don't buy them, and if you have some, give them to hospital" at the start of Covid, amongst a littany of other disinformation, so honestly, not surprised.

It's like the GIEC group 3. If you really want to understand what is happening, you need to read group 1 and 2 data directly (i did that during Covid, it took 3 month and a new notetaking app), because you have science, and "science" (what's funny is that one of the justification for lying was "avoid sentiment of helplessness and despair").

Anyway, not surprising, USians "elites" seems super-condescending all the time (on both side), i think it's baked into their personality, so they lie to "reassure" or shit like this. We have the same in our country, even if its not as widespread.