The US Health Secretary 6 Times Refused to Answer if ‘Forcing 2-Year-Olds to Wear Masks Saved Lives’

Just last week, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a simple question, six times, during a congressional hearing.

Twitter erupted over the weekend when podcaster Joe Rogan invited Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist at Baylor University, to debate presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic.

Hotez declined the invitation, triggering a fuss. Rogan supporters accused Hotez of being ethically compromised and afraid to debate, while Hotez’s defenders called RFK Jr. a quack unworthy of debating.

While little of the discussion was constructive, an exception was comments from billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who tweeted on Monday that discussions were necessary to restore the collapse in trust in public health.

“Trust emerges from transparency, accountability, and ultimately from positive outcomes from the policies implemented,” Ackman wrote . “In the fog of the Covid war, many mistakes were made by our government and our public health officials.”

The mistakes government officials made were legion and included claims that vaccinated people could not get COVID-19, asymptomatic spread was a major driver of the virus, and lockdowns could eliminate or significantly slow the spread.

Evidence shows that people such as Hotez, who tried to silence dissent and attacked those who speculated the virus may have come from Wuhan, bear some responsibility for the collapse of trust in public health that occurred during the pandemic. This explains why an honest and open discussion is something Hotez is not interested in having, and he’s not the only one.

Just last week, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a simple question, six times, during a congressional hearing.

"Did forcing 2-year-olds to wear masks save lives?" Kiley asked.

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