Leana Wen Is Not Being Honest with You

Leana Wen Is Not Being Honest with You (Commentary by Noah Rothman)<br /><br /><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you" rel="noopener">https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you</a><br /><br /><a href="https://gorightnews.com/leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you/" rel="noopener">https://gorightnews.com/leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://rumble.com/vuw2um-leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you.html" rel="noopener">https://rumble.com/vuw2um-leana-wen-is-not-being-honest-with-you.html</a><br /><br /><a href="https://rumble.com/embed/vs9ws4" rel="noopener">https://rumble.com/embed/vs9ws4</a><br /><br />The science has changed,” declared Dr. Leana Wen. The George Washington University public health expert, columnist, and ubiquitous presence on CNN since the start of the pandemic buoyantly informed the network’s viewers that the receding threat posed by Covid-19 is an outgrowth of new scientific revelations about the virus.<br /><br />What revelations? Well, first, the vaccines work, she said. Children now have access to those vaccines. If you want to mask up, you “the wearer” are protected. And because the Omicron variant is “milder,” we should not rely on case counts as a reliable metric to gauge the pandemic’s threat to public health. Accordingly, any masking ordinance “should shift from a government mandate” to an “individual responsibility.” That is especially true for young children because “there actually is a harm that we should be discussing of children continuing to mask.”<br /><br />These are welcome admissions, but it is unclear what “science” has evolved to a point that now enables Wen is to articulate the same principles in the same language that critics of Covid-mitigation regimes have been stating for months. We’ve known for a long time that masking children has profound psychosocial consequences that are arguably not justified by the threat Covid infection poses to children. We’ve know