Like Dr. Fauci, Neil Ferguson, Dominic Cummings, the Cuomo brothers, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Irish political elite embarrassed by “Golfgate,” Pelosi doesn’t mask in private, despite her endless preaching that “we” all should.
BUT (as I demonstrate in “Masking Ourselves to Death”), this isn’t actually about hypocrisy. It’s about the fact that all those elite players don’t really believe that they’re at risk, and—therefore—that those masks aren’t really necessary (and wouldn’t be even if the viral threat were real, since they don’t work).
As superficial as it is, however, this is a powerful ad.