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CNBC's embrace of multiple masking to stop the spread of Covid-19 has reached Babylon Bee levels - literally - as the infamous satire outlet published a story on triple-masking on the same day that CNBC encouraged the behavior.
Capitalizing on audience confusion over whether masks are supposed to protect others or the wearer, CNBC's Contessa Brewer explained (in an increasingly muffled voice as she demonstrated proper mask application on camera) on Monday that
while the first mask protects others, the second one protects the wearer.
This is especially important as new and seemingly more contagious strains of Covid-19 spread among the population, US coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci claimed.
For those who really want to be safe, however, wearing three masks is 90 percent effective, CNBC claimed in a graphic accompanying the segment, which cited a
recent study that actually claimed a three-layer mask was hypothesized to be 90 percent effective.
For those unwilling to take the triple-mask challenge, Brewer held up a line of Chinese-manufactured masks similar to the N-95 variety that was so much in demand in the early months of the pandemic, explaining
discomfort was proof the five-layer face covering was working.
Comment: Regardless of whether or not Schuyler's original question was relevant, the backlash against him for his outburst has proved his later point. Not that that point really needed to be made. It's been clear for the past several years at least that freedom of speech is not an inalienable right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights but a privilege allowed only within certain bounds as determined by the Woke and the pathological. It's unsurprising then that the only things Schuyler's stunt has accomplished is to get him fired and likely made things slightly worse for those left behind at the school. He should've known better than to provoke the Woke without thinking it through.