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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

UNMASKING COMMON SENSE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

How Many Masks Are Enough?; Remember the .4%; Dr. Merritt Highlights Decades-Long Fraud; ICAN is making major waves; A Milestone Reached at The HighWire

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you are out there in the world, it's

0:16.7

time to step out onto the high wire. Well, I'm excited to report that we're making

0:23.3

a lot of great progress when it comes to this pandemic. The science seems to really be

0:28.1

advancing and we're recognizing more and more what it's going to take to overcome this

0:33.3

thing. Now, of course, the discussion of the week has really been revolving around masks.

0:39.0

We've been reporting for almost a year now all of the studies that showed that masks are

0:43.9

not effective at stopping transmission of the virus, including the CDC's own study. But

0:49.7

Tony Fauci really enlightened us this week that there's some advancements in the thinking.

0:56.1

Maybe the fact is we just weren't wearing enough masks. Take a look at this.

1:01.7

A lot of folks are hearing now about double masking wearing two masks or trying to get one

1:08.0

of those N95 medical grade masks. You know, it likely does because I mean, this is a physical

1:14.6

covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in. So if you have a physical covering

1:21.4

with one layer, you put another layer on it just makes common sense that it likely would

1:26.9

be more effective. And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing

1:31.4

a version of an N95.

1:34.8

Now I mean, that's I guess news to all of us that we're only wearing one mask you out

1:39.4

there. Obviously you weren't doing your civic duty by wearing two masks. The one mask clearly

1:44.2

is not the most effective way to go. I think about all the individuals that might have died

1:48.8

this year that went out in public in the one mask thinking that that was capable of stopping

1:53.0

the virus. But later they were over the age of 65. It maybe had co-morbidities and found

1:58.4

that they caught the virus anyway because the one mask obviously might not have been

2:02.6

enough. But the question is what is enough? I mean, we've seen articles now even this

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