With liberal San Francisco recalling their school board for not focusing on getting kids back in school, the mostly liberal cast of The View was up in arms over those who wanted to lift harmful mask mandates. Co-host Joy Behar proclaimed she would wear a mask “indefinitely” when around people despite being vaccinated and boosted. And Sunny Hostin wanted to keep kids smothered because she “worr[ies]” for them. But when they were confronted with common sense about masking, their minds melted.
With co-host Whoopi Goldberg kicking off the discussion by wondering “what should we be concerned about really right now,” Behar said she doesn’t listen to the science but rather “the little voice in my head that doesn't really follow 100 percent of what they tell me because they keep changing it.”
“A very short time ago, they were saying put the N95 masks on, and now make sure it's a -- and now they're saying you don't have to wear them anymore,” she huffed.
She’s so close to realizing the ridiculousness of the CDC and how the protocols were questionable at best, even Johns Hopkins found the lockdowns did nothing. But Behar was still insisting she was going to wear a mask.
“So, if I go on the subway, if I go in a bus, if I go into the theater, if I go into (…) a crowded place, I would wear a mask and I might do that indefinitely.” “So, I'm listening to myself right now,” she added.
In a bit brand synergy from Disney products, Hostin, an admitted helicopter parent, did her best impersonation of Helen Lovejoy from the Simpsons by proclaiming she was thinking of the children.
“I worry about the kids. Right,” she oddly asked the table. “Because we know there are kids under five that are in preschool that can't be vaccinated. We know that kids from 5 to 12 are the least vaccinated in the country. And I still worry about them.”
She even scolded parents who not only wanted their kids unmasked but also had the absurd demand that they attend school in person. “I don't think we're thinking about the children and the most vulnerable, and the elderly. We're not thinking about those people,” she sneered.
The only one making any sense was conservative guest co-host and Princeton Professor Lauren Wright who spoke the truth that “life is risk assessments. That's part of being an adult.” Adding: “Tradeoffs is a basic thing that we teach our graduate policy students at Princeton, and we need to be able to be adults about this.”
Wright then made the mistake of telling them that the mask mandates were not “based on science.” And Hostin reacted like she just insulted her mother:
WRIGHT: But this has not been based on science.
HOSTIN (offended): The masks weren't based on science?
WRIGHT: It’s really loose science from the very beginning.
The rest of the cast had mental meltdowns after Wright had spelled out how the CDC’s mask studies were horribly flawed. “If you read the studies, they're correlational. It's better than nothing. They're comparing cities with mask mandates to cities that don't have them, and there's no compliance consideration, there's no randomization,” she explained.
Behar wanted blame Republicans, co-host Sara Haines talked about makes being like umbrellas, and Hostin was paranoid about the people around her not being vaccinated.
This irrational masking freak out was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Olay and Vicks. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 17, 2022
11:02:15 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now today, the CDC is looking to ease mask mandates by next week if case numbers keep trending in the right direction, which is down. But a lot of Americans are done waiting. Parents in one San Francisco school district voted out three board members over concerns that they weren't prioritizing really doing the right thing for their kids in school. Some people are warning Democrats that keeping mandates for too long could be political liability, but we're just saying they're changing the mandate so that's gone out the window.
What should the -- what should we be concerned about really right now?
JOY BEHAR: Personally?
GOLDBERG: Personally. Personally.
BEHAR: Personally, I listen to the little voice in my head that doesn't really follow 100 percent of what they tell me because they keep changing it.
A very short time ago, they were saying put the N95 masks on, and now make sure it's a -- and now they're saying you don't have to wear them anymore. So, if I go on the subway, if I go in a bus, if I go into the theater, if I go into-- where else would I go?
GOLDBERG: A crowded spot.
BEHAR: A crowded place, I would wear a mask and I might do that indefinitely. Because why do I need a flu or a cold even?
So I'm listening to myself right now. I sort of – I mean, I don't think it's 100 percent safe yet.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I worry about the kids. Right? Because we know there are kids under five that are in preschool that can't be vaccinated. We know that kids from 5 to 12 are the least vaccinated in the country. And I still worry about them. I mean, there are effects from the Omicron variant that we don't even know about. I mean, Joy was telling me about – you were reading there could be some heart type of --
BEHAR: They have to look that up. There's stuff that they're not sure about yet that could affect your health in other ways. Yes.
HOSTIN: And so, I know parents want kids back into school. I wanted my daughter to be back into high school. Her whole freshman year of high school was remote, that was a terrible thing and it was difficult for her. But I’d rather that than have her get sick and somehow have these effects later on.
I don't think we're thinking about the children and the most vulnerable, and the elderly. We're not thinking about those people.
LAUREN WRIGHT: But life is risk assessments. That's part of being an adult. And this week, the risk of dying of COVID if you are triple vaxxed is one in a million. That's literally the risk. Getting in a car is one out of a hundred about. The risk for 18 to 49-year-olds is lower than that, and the risk for kids is even lower than that.
And so, we need to weigh risks. Tradeoffs is a basic thing that we teach our graduate policy students at Princeton, and we need to be able to be adults about this.
Why should you have to make decisions like this? Why has the messaging been so inconsistent that we're all Googling, okay, let me make my own parameters, my own rules about when do I wear --
HOSTIN: Because science changes things. Because science changes things.
WRIGHT: But this has not been based on science.
HOSTIN (offended): The masks weren't based on science?
WRIGHT: It’s really loose science from the very beginning.
BEHAR: Well, the Republicans -- come on.
WRIGHT: Of course, when we were not having vaccines, we needed those, and if you want to wear one, then you wear one. I was, you know, Lysoling my mail at the beginning. But now we have vaccines.
HOSTIN: But there have been scientific studies that show that masking does help the spread.
BEHAR: Science also shows that you don't have to Lysol your bags anymore.
WRIGHT: I know that. I know that.
BEHAR: There's different things that keep happening.
WRIGHT: And so, the point is the CDC has been very inconsistent about this. If you read the studies, they're correlational. It's better than nothing. They're comparing cities with mask mandates to cities that don't have them, and there's no compliance consideration, there's no randomization. And so, that's not saying don't wear a mask. It's just saying that the CDC -- when I hear them say, “we want you to take the mask off now and grab for it later,” what does that mean? What does it mean to inch back to reality?
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