Biden Team Creates COVID Controversy in Email Demanding Masks, Social Distancing for Unvaccinated at WH

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

The Democrats’ position on COVID restrictions didn’t make a lot of sense while the “emergency” was still on.

Now that they declared the emergency “over” in April and declared an end to the oppressive government mandates, long after most of the rest of the country said we’re done with it, you would think that the White House would have given up playing the COVID restriction game.

But, that would be logical, and you’re talking about Joe Biden’s White House—which has never operated logically.

The White House Office of Legislative Affairs sent out an email to members of Congress saying that the Bidens would be welcoming the NCAA championship teams to “College Athlete Day” on Monday. But in the email, they said that anyone attending the event would have to wear masks and socially distance if they were unvaccinated.

“Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds,” the email states [bold font in original email]. “Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds.”

That, understandably, got a lot of backlash from people saying, “What the heck is going on here?” How crazed is the White House with this in June 2023?

Now, the White House is backpedaling, saying that the guidance was “out of date and inadvertently” added in the email. They added that they may send out an updated email.

As we know the efficacy of masks, particularly the kind of thing most people wear, has been called into question.

Meanwhile, experts have been calling into question the efficacy of face masks. A recent study published by the prestigious Cochrane Library, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, dug into the findings of 78 randomized controlled trials to determine whether “physical interventions” — including face masks and hand-washing — lessened the spread of respiratory viruses.

The conclusion about masks undercuts the scientific basis for masking, according to the study’s lead author.

“There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author, said in an interview. When asked specifically about fitted N95 masks in health care settings, Jefferson said: “It makes no difference – none of it.”

Social distancing has also been called into question and was an arbitrary thing.

On top of that, the vaccinated can spread the virus if they have it, too. This whole concept was silly from the jump.

Yet Joe Biden divided the country with mandates and the demonizing of the unvaccinated, blaming them for the continuation of the spread of the virus, claiming they would cause of “winter of severe illness and death.” The Biden team even tried to blame unvaccinated Americans for inflation.

This demonstrates again how wrong Joe Biden was on COVID and so many other things that he has botched while occupying the office. Biden and his team can’t even get a simple ceremonial event right without creating yet another controversy.