The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe called the confusion caused by President Joe Biden’s mask mandates concerning.
“People don’t want to act like it’s March 2020 anymore,” according to Lowe. “The time to care about community transmission was February and March of 2020. Once the virus is a pandemic, it’s out there. There is no halting community transmission.”
Case rates and hospitalizations no longer matter, Lowe said.
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“What matters — the death rate, and primarily the death rate of the vaccinated. The strangest thing about this administration’s decision is for how much derision they have for those who have choose to remain unvaccinated,” she said.
“They are choosing to prolong all the regulations related to COVID that have been hampering the economy, just to protect the unvaccinated.”
The vaccine just protects individuals. It doesn’t hamper transmission, Lowe said.
“So why care about the community transmission rate if you’re getting a bunch of breakthrough infections among … a community of fully vaccinated people for whom this really is just the common cold or just the flu?” she asked.
When asked if she felt that the administration was attempting to prolong the pandemic to influence policy and decision-making, Lowe told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that she fully agreed.
Schools are a prime example, she said.
“The only reason you want that for a bunch of children who were never at risk of this thing anyway, vaccine or not, is if you want to continue the free lunch,” according to Lowe. “Classroom closures, thousands of kids quarantined every single day. The schools are not fully reopened until we treat this thing literally just like the flu for kids and we know fully.”
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation for Teachers, recently suggested that school mask mandates should remain in place until a zero transmission rate is reached.
Lowe called the notion ludicrous.
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“In a sane world, we would consider the one silver lining of COVID is that it really doesn’t affect young people, and keeping the schools opened would have been priority No. 1,” Lowe said. “But instead, the kids don’t have a union. The teachers have a union. It’s the least powerful people in society who are being made to mask constantly and be kept out of jobs. It’s service workers and students. Those are the ones who are doing forever masking.”
