Charlie Kirk spoke with Dr. Pierre Kory on Tuesday about the pandemic-era forced masking, vaccine mandates and how these policies are beginning to make a comeback. Kirk showed a clip in which CNN's Michael Smerconish confronted Anthony Fauci about an Oxford study, published last month, in which the lead author declared "There is just no evidence that ... masks make any difference."
"How do we get beyond that finding in that particular review?" asked the Smerconish.
Fauci clapped back in the clip, "Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals, when you're talking about the effect on the epidemic of the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong."
"Yeah, what he says, unfortunately, doesn't make scientific sense," Dr. Kory said response. "I mean, when you look at all the collections of studies, they did study individual protection, and there's no sustained or significant signal to show that it'll happen with individual protection. I mean, for sure, we know from epidemiology that mask mandates and public mask mandates work. But you know, a lot of those studies were in focus groups, and they followed individual patients, and there's nothing elusive to show that it helps."
Kirk spoke about a recent trup to Grand Teton Park, during which he was surprised to see both indivudals and groups wearing masks. Kory noted that “the way I interpret that is: It's just the result of the fearsome power of propaganda and repetition… It's that combination of injecting fear - ‘this variant is going to get you, masks work’ - and then it sets you up for the savior, which is the vaccine, and they just keep repeating it, 'wear your mask, wear your mask, wear your mask.’"
He continued "…this is an advertising campaign to sell more vaccines. Vaccine uptake has plummeted. How are you going to pick up vaccine uptake? Are you going to do the same thing you did two years ago? Fear, propaganda, censorship, period."
Kirk was quick to highlight the importance of Dr. Kory’s example.
"I just want everyone to take a second and understand what Dr. Kory’s saying there. You have people who see declining profits, and then they meet in a room and say, 'Let's make people afraid.' … 'We're not making as much money as we want to make, so let's go manipulate the masses, so they run around like sheep, and they're in a state of fear...'"
Kirk then asked the doctor to give his take on the CDC risk assessment stating the new Covid variant is "more capable of causing infection in people who have had the vaccine."
Kory clarified "…they're saying the vaccine…[is] not going to protect you from this new variant. They're also saying that about natural immunity. So basically, they’re saying this variant is more likely to evade either natural or vaccine immunity, which is another way of saying…go get your new vaccine."
"You know, this... I mean, this absurdity of a global vaccination campaign for a highly mutagenic coronavirus.” He continued, “It was illogical before it started, and we've had nothing but three years of evidence to show that vaccinating against immunogenic coronavirus does not work. And yet, they keep doing it."
He concluded, "…let's be clear about this…yes, there are people who have benefited from this whole construct, and it's not the common man."
Kirk concurred, "Covid has been a boom industry for the oligarchs. The oligarchs are more powerful, they are more determined, and they have more control over society than ever after COVID."
