There was an excellent, well-sourced article on masks that was written in 2016 and very accessible to laypeople (though directed at dental professionals), which basically shredded the “masks can stop or slow respiratory virus transmission” myth. Within a couple of weeks of Fauci’s 180° on masking, the site took the article down, saying that it was published in 2016 and “is no longer relevant in our current climate.”

For now, it’s still accessible via the Wayback Machine (https://bit.ly/3wefZkA ), but even that is becoming highly politicized. It seems the CDC has also found a way to program parts of their website so the Wayback Machine no longer works to access things they don’t want people to find, which I guess is the first step toward a true 1984 memory hole.