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"My recommendation still holds that the choirs should refrain from singing. When you sing and you project your voice, the aerosols of the virus come out," he said, contradicting Centers for Disease Control recommendations on socially distanced worship.
According to Newsy, the CDC also first wrote on their website that faith communities should "consider suspending or at least decrease the use of choir/musical ensembles, congregant singing, chanting or reciting during services..." Those initial recommendations then disappeared from the website overnight without an explanation. Fauci stood by the recommendation.
While state and local governments lock down bars and restaurants, and limit large gatherings like worship services, mass protests and demonstrations have been left free to flood city streets.
During a House hearing of the committee investigating the Trump administration's pandemic response, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Fauci, "Do protests increase the spread of the virus?"
"Crowding together, particularly when you're not wearing a mask, contributes to the spread of the virus," Fauci said. Jordan asked the question again. Fauci dodged, then claimed he didn't think the protests question was relevant. "I'm not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way," he said.
Madeline Osburn is a staff editor at the Federalist and the producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Follow her on Twitter.
Reader Comments
...Is there already a gigantic Fauci murial plastered in some Dem stronghold? If Trump canned him, CBS would "find" one next news cycle.
I close my eyes and I can imagine a planet on the opposite side of our galaxy, once populated by the meanest, ruthless, most selfish psychopaths in the universe exploding a few hundred years ago. We on earth are today experiencing the fifth or sixth generation of reincarnations from that planet and now it feels like it is time for earth to explode too, just to shed this layer of reborn filth
And this isn't even Monday. Wow the week is going to be a strange one...
"I'm not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way,"NO, you hypogonadic goat testicle. You only rant about what they SHOULD do in a forceful way in your imbecilic, subtly self aggrandizing style and opinion.
King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
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