Many people are desperately trying to come up with a rationale to continue wearing a mask now that the CDC has changed its guidance on the issue. Also, the NYC Pride Parade bans cops from participating, a teacher is caught on camera berating a student, and 60 Minutes is the latest mainstream media outlet to report on the impending UFO invasion. This is real, folks. We'll talk about that, plus our daily cancellation and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Walsh Show, many people are desperately trying to come up with a rationale to continue wearing a mask now that the CDC has changed its guidance on the issue.
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00:01:52.120So it's been a hard few days for folks on the anti-science left.
00:01:56.940As we covered late last week, the CDC announced that vaccinated people can take off their masks.
00:02:01.000This news was irrelevant to people like myself who took the mask off long ago or never wore it to begin with, except when forced to.
00:02:07.780Those in our camp were not waiting for permission from the CDC, nor have we ever claimed that the CDC is the ultimate unquestionable authority on all things science.
00:02:17.140For us, the CDC announcing that we could walk outside and breathe the air without a mask is like the Food and Drug Administration announcing that we're allowed to eat a sandwich for lunch.
00:02:27.020Like, thanks, but I wasn't really asking for your opinion and I don't care.
00:02:40.000It's a process through which the natural world is investigated and its workings are better understood.
00:02:47.240That's all that science is and all that we should see it as.
00:02:50.700This is why the phrase trust the science is itself unscientific.
00:02:55.160Because most of the time when someone says that, when they say trust the science, what they mean is that you should trust the assertion that they are making in the name of science.
00:03:03.860But trusting the science means precisely that you don't trust the assertion and instead you look at the process by which they arrived at their conclusion.
00:03:34.940These are the people, after all, who think that men can have babies.
00:03:38.380So, clearly, this is not about science.
00:03:40.120No, for them, science is just the label that they have put on their preconceived religious doctrines.
00:03:46.660And because it's a religion, then the supposed scientific authorities, government agencies, public health experts, and so on, become like high priests and prophets.
00:03:57.380They should be trusted and heeded, not because they follow the process of science, but because we're called to have faith in them as the ordained ministers of the religion of science.
00:04:07.020That's the way the left has approached science, especially over the last year.
00:04:11.680But now, there's been a breakdown, a schism, if you will.
00:04:16.260The priests are waving their holy scepters and granting millions of people permission to remove their masks, but many of their disciples don't want to remove them.
00:04:25.720For so long, they said, trust the science, as in trust agencies like the CDC implicitly.
00:04:30.080And now, that's exactly what they refuse to do.
00:04:33.160So, for example, AOC posted on Instagram over the weekend, declaring her intention to continue wearing her mask.
00:04:40.760By the way, if you want to keep wearing your mask, then do it.
00:04:43.720Personally, I'm going to keep wearing my mask in shared indoor places like elevators, subway, grocery store, etc.
00:04:50.760NYC got hit so hard that I think some of us are going to take some time adjusting as we feel comfortable.
00:04:55.940Also, it's a nice accessory when you don't want to do all your makeup.
00:04:58.560Well, that part I can relate to, obviously.
00:05:02.900But some Democrat-controlled states are putting the force of law behind this, or keeping the force of law behind it, rather.
00:05:08.460As NJ.com reports, Governor Phil Murphy said Friday that New Jersey will keep its requirement that all people must wear masks indoors in public to protect against the coronavirus, at least for now,
00:05:18.860despite federal health officials releasing updated guidance that says masks are no longer needed for fully vaccinated Americans in most circumstances.
00:05:26.020We're not there yet, Murphy said, a day after the federal Centers for Disease Control released its new recommendations,
00:05:33.360though he stressed the state could drop its mandate within a matter of weeks if vaccinations continue to increase and the state's outbreak keeps receding.
00:05:41.940Massachusetts and Hawaii have also announced that they're going to keep their mask mandates in place for all people vaccinated or not.
00:05:47.420I think there are like 20 other states that still have the mandates in place as of right now.
00:05:52.720Meanwhile, many prominent people have come out and advocated for continued mask use.
00:05:57.740Mia Farrow, if she counts as prominent, I don't know, tweeted, quote,
00:06:00.880hundreds of people are still dying from COVID every day.
00:06:37.260And as we've seen, plenty of people would be more than happy to indulge.
00:06:43.600The Guardian interviewed a number of women who plan to continue masking indefinitely.
00:06:48.200And many of them have reasons that have nothing to do with physical health at all.
00:06:51.200One woman said that she likes how masking makes her gender ambiguous.
00:06:57.200And another said that she likes how when she wears the mask, it takes away the male gaze.
00:07:03.180Apparently, she's under the impression that the male gaze focuses on the nose and the mouth and not other parts of the body.
00:07:10.680I've also been told that we should keep wearing a mask because even if not COVID, there are still many other germs out there.
00:07:16.880And this excuse is interesting, as it would seem to indicate that these forever masker types just discovered the existence of germs this past year.
00:07:27.940I mean, there were masks available prior to a year ago and also plenty of germs out there.
00:07:33.400And yet nobody ever even considered walking around in a mask all day unless they had some very specific medical reason for doing so.
00:07:41.820Someone else, Dave Leviton, a reporter for the Daily Beast, he tweeted at me on Sunday to argue that wearing a mask to cover your face is no different in principle from wearing pants.
00:07:55.380And I don't object to people wearing pants, so why should I object to people wearing masks?
00:08:00.220What this really tells me is that Dave sees no difference between his face and his ass.
00:08:06.160And that may indeed be the case for him specifically, but I don't think that holds true across the board.
00:08:13.580All told, what's clear is that lots of people are going to cling desperately to their masks for reasons that have nothing to do with the process of science at all.
00:08:21.700But I've pointed all this out many times before.
00:08:48.000Why should it cause me any distress if we now live in a society where millions of people will wear masks everywhere all the time for reasons that have little to do with health and safety?
00:08:59.200Well, because it is grotesque and unhuman.
00:09:04.700It is an attack on and rejection of society itself.
00:09:09.200The people who do this, they're not only treating air like it's poison, not only walking around every day as if they live downwind of Chernobyl, but they're treating other human beings like they are nothing but vessels of disease.
00:09:22.900And yes, humans can be vessels of disease.
00:09:26.940But by wearing the mask, again, when it's not medically necessary, I'm not talking about somebody on chemo or something wearing a mask.
00:09:33.720By wearing the mask, you are declaring that in your mind other human beings are toxic.
00:09:39.180To you, the most foremost, the most salient fact about other humans is that they might make you sick.
00:09:46.620You are living a life steeped in paranoia and fear and suspicion, literally wearing your neuroses on your face and thereby feeding and promoting paranoia and fear in other people.
00:09:56.460When you're wearing a mask, the first thing you're saying to everyone you come across and speak to and interact with is that they are potentially diseased.
00:10:07.420They are a danger to you as you are to them.
00:10:19.880You know, a part of living in a human society is walking down the street, seeing the faces of strangers, being able to look at them and them at you.
00:10:34.520A big part of human communication is body language, facial expression.
00:10:39.100These are major facets of human existence and human interchange.
00:11:30.360And that's why, frankly, maybe we should be thinking about considering the psychological health risks posed by healthy people wearing medically unnecessary masks.
00:11:43.560Maybe we should be thinking about about masking bans.
00:11:46.320That's what we should be calling for across the country.
00:11:47.940At least 15 days of a masking ban to slow the spread of paranoia and OCD across the country.
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00:13:26.300All right, so sort of staying on the same subject here.
00:13:30.800The CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, is obviously an incompetent liar, which means that she fits right in, of course, in government and the federal government.
00:13:39.200But she was on ABC, and she had a couple of interesting things to say.
00:16:03.820I mean, because that sounds, isn't that exactly what lots, what some of us have been saying about the COVID death rate all along?
00:16:11.940Like, up until just now, to say what she just said there would have been condemned and was condemned as anti-science, conspiracy theory, so on and so forth.
00:16:26.600Many of us, right, have been wondering this all along.
00:16:32.300We've said, yes, obviously COVID is real.
00:16:34.640Obviously, it's killing lots of people.
00:16:36.120But are we, every single person who dies with COVID, does that count as dying of COVID?
00:16:46.200There seems to be an indication maybe we have in some cases.
00:16:49.380How often has it been conflated incorrectly?
00:16:54.780And here she is admitting it, at least when it comes to the vaccinated people.
00:16:59.380Because she's saying, look, anyone who comes to the hospital and dies, we're going to run a COVID test, and there might be some people who died of a heart attack or something.
00:17:24.820And I don't, I don't, I don't doubt at all what she's saying.
00:17:29.380To me, it seems there's a very good chance that a large portion of those people who died with COVID after getting vaccinated didn't actually die of COVID.
00:18:18.240It was just Tuesday when you sat before a Senate committee and you were adamant then that masking and social distancing should remain in place.
00:18:28.080But the Washington Post is reporting you had already approved a decision to change the guidance.
00:18:33.700When it was finally announced on Thursday, it came as a huge surprise and left some administration officials, doctors, businesses off guard.
00:18:40.960So why so suddenly and why did you not tell the Senate panel what you had decided?
00:18:48.300Cases have been coming down more than a third just in the last two weeks.
00:18:52.740We have vaccine now across this country, widely available for anyone who wants it.
00:18:57.940And we now have science that has really just evolved even in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe, they are effective, they are working in the population just as they did in the clinical trials, that they are working against our variants that we have here circulating in the United States.
00:19:14.800And that if you were to develop an infection, even if you got vaccinated, that you can't transmit that infection to other people.
00:19:22.420Some of that science was really evolving as late as last Thursday.
00:19:26.180And one of the published one of the papers, the largest paper was published from the CDC just the day before yesterday.
00:19:32.140So we were actively reviewing that science during the past week.
00:19:36.340We were making decisions and moving, moving and our subject matter experts were working just as I was testifying in front of Congress.
00:21:21.980And so, of course, you don't need a mask.
00:21:25.180Well, again, if that science was, quote, evolving up until a few days ago.
00:21:31.580Then doesn't that raise a lot of very concerning questions about what else you don't know?
00:21:37.940About this substance that you're injecting into millions of people.
00:21:40.560Now, the good news here in a certain way is that she's lying and it's clear that she's lying.
00:21:51.140We've we have known all along that vaccinated people don't need to wear masks, just like we've known a lot of other things about masking that they've lied to us about.
00:22:03.200And this is what they you could just follow.
00:22:06.300Well, I was going to say follow the trajectory with masking, but it's not really a trajectory because it's like it's up and down.
00:22:10.560And it's schizophrenic all over the place.
00:22:52.020We have known almost nothing about how medical masks work up until this last year.
00:22:59.900And over the last year, we've been, you know, the scientists and the public health experts have been researching it and figuring it out and it's been evolving and everything else.
00:23:10.820Medical masks have been around forever.
00:23:12.740There's not much that we've actually learned about them in the last year that we didn't know prior to a year ago.
00:23:22.700And that's an important point because it shows, again, that when the so-called public health experts have been all over the map in their masking guidance.
00:23:31.040It's not because they're trying to figure out if masks work and what they do exactly and all of this.
00:23:37.320We've known what a mask is and what function it serves and all that.
00:23:52.340All right. Number two from the Daily Wire, it says Heritage of Pride, the organization that hosts New York City's annual LGBT Pride Parade, voted to ban police from participating in the 2021 Pride Parade, even going so far as to cancel the annual march of LGBT New York Police Department officers and is working to reduce the presence of law enforcement because the NYPD, quote, represents violence.
00:24:14.560It's not clear whether Heritage of Pride has the authority to force law enforcement to draw down its presence at the parade, given that New York City has seen an increase in crime rate and the Pride Parade is traditionally a large event.
00:24:26.100But the organization believes it does have the authority to ban officers from participating in the parade.
00:24:33.040According to ABC, quote, police will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ March until 2025.
00:24:41.700NYC Pride is also working to reduce the New York Police Department security and first responder presence at its events, according to the organization.
00:24:52.320And Andre Thomas of Heritage of Pride said, quote, we know many LGBT cops, but what the institution represents sometimes to a person of color or trans person is violence.
00:25:18.040First of all, I'm not crazy about cops participating in the Pride Parade anyway, but really doing you a favor, I guess, if you're banned from participating in the Pride Parade.
00:25:29.580Because it's not really the kind of spectacle you should want to be a part of anyway.
00:25:33.200You know, traditionally, pride is considered a sin.
00:25:42.080It's not something that you celebrate.
00:25:45.820It is the Pride Parade explicitly is a celebration of vanity.
00:25:51.820It's a, hey, everyone, look at me moment.
00:25:53.800And even leaving aside what you're expressing, what you're expressing pride in your sexual orientation.
00:26:53.780So if you're banned from participating as a police officer or anyone else, take that as a blessing.
00:26:59.900Not something you should want to be associated with in the first place.
00:27:02.700Number three, here's viral video of a teacher in Wisconsin berating a student who says he's vaccinated because the student's not wearing a mask.
00:27:10.160And, you know, of course, we're really glad to have these people back in the classroom now because our children needed these people so badly.
00:27:17.620And finally, you know, we've reunited them, at least in many schools across the country.
00:27:23.420And that's what leads to stuff like this.
00:27:25.360I don't care if you're vaccinated, you little ****.
00:29:28.220Especially if she's concerned that everyone around her is going to get her sick and make her die.
00:29:33.440So she's vaccinated, and yet she's, assuming she's vaccinated, the kid is vaccinated, what does she think is going to happen?
00:29:43.140No, as we've been saying here for a while, it's, you're morbidly obese.
00:29:52.720The health concern, especially if you're vaccinated now, the health concern that you need to worry about is not COVID.
00:29:59.240And even before you were vaccinated, yeah, you did need to be worried about COVID, but the main reason you had to worry about it is because of how COVID affects obese people.
00:30:06.860And they were the, you know, took the brunt along with the elderly of the deaths and the serious side effects and everything.
00:30:16.040So if you're that concerned, maybe stop screaming at the student and, I don't know, lay off the fast food hamburgers for a few months, lose a few pounds.
00:30:28.420If you're that worried, just a thought.
00:30:37.16060 minutes had a report on, I know some of you are sick of me talking about this subject, but you're just going to have to deal with it because this matters and this is important.
00:30:46.84060 minutes had a report on all of the UFO encounters that we've been hearing about in the lead up to the report that's going to be given to Congress in the next month or so from the Defense Department about all of this.
00:31:00.700I thought one interview that was especially compelling, and the whole thing from 60 Minutes is worth watching, but one interview was especially compelling.
00:31:08.680It was from two Navy pilots, part of a team of four, who personally, with their own eyes, observed one of these things up close.
00:33:18.820And their job is to observe and detect threats in the sky.
00:33:26.100So four expert eyewitnesses observing this phenomenon for a sustained period of time.
00:33:35.780And what they witnessed, their testimony is confirmed by radar and by video.
00:33:43.480And we have some of the video that you can watch.
00:33:46.620And 60 Minutes played some of that video, too.
00:33:48.300So that's about as persuasive as evidence could possibly be.
00:33:55.760You know, for a long time, the complaint about these UFO sightings is that all of the, you know, it's just like if this was really happening, we would expect more evidence than just some farmer in Kansas who says that he saw this thing and nobody else saw it.
00:34:11.980And he didn't have a camera or he did have a camera, but it was a camera from, you know, somehow a camera from the Civil War era or something like that.
00:34:50.700It wasn't like all four of those pilots were hallucinating the same thing at the same time.
00:34:56.840And these are we know that these are some kinds of vehicles that are out there and they're they they are doing things that seem impossible.
00:35:03.820That seem even to break the laws of physics as we understand them.
00:35:08.640I think I think that much we can say with 100 percent certainty.
00:35:13.840Everything I just said now, as far as where the thing are from and what they're doing and all of that.
00:35:18.880Well, of course, we can't speak with anything close to certainty on that, but.
00:36:41.960OK, we also have around the same time.
00:36:45.860There's been an uptick of Bigfoot sightings as well.
00:36:48.580And I got to play this for you because this.
00:36:50.000Well, first, here's here's the report from Daily Caller.
00:36:51.920It says a user on TikTok has blown up after claiming to have evidence of humanoids living in the wild.
00:36:57.320TikTok user Chronicles of Olivia released several videos which have generated millions of views in the past few days about these humanoids in the wild that the government allegedly knows about.
00:37:07.020The biggest piece of evidence she provided was a photo of a footprint at Lena Lake in Washington.
00:42:05.640They might as well say that after you get the vaccine, the doctor will give you a free lollipop for being such a good and brave little boy.
00:42:12.020I would be more motivated by that, frankly, than I would by the fast food coupon.