The CDC changed its mask mandate guidance a few days before a letter to Biden from his Pollster became public. The letter said that mandates were bad for Dems re-election chances and how to spin the abrupt change in tactics.
The CDC’s part was to remove the substantial risk column altogether and tweak the “rules.” Suddenly 95% of America no longer needed masks. A flick of a switch. Just like that. And a few days later, Biden Joe in his SOTU did what the letter from the Pollster said.
No one who regularly reads these pages was surprised either that the original standard was crap or that the guidance change was also. It’s all crap. But even after the “tweak,” several counties in Maine discovered they were still supposed to mask up.
Thirteen of Maine’s 16 counties are considered to have high potential for health care system strain and residents of those counties are still advised to wear masks indoors, the CDC said. Those counties are home to about 84 percent of the state’s residents based on the latest available census data. …
“As the virus continues to circulate in our communities, we must focus our metrics beyond just cases in the community and direct our efforts toward protecting people at high risk for severe illness and preventing COVID-19 from overwhelming our hospitals and our health care system,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said.
I’m just throwing this out there, but what about the CDC tweak to mask efficacy a few weeks earlier. The one that said cloth masks and most medical masks are (more or less) useless for stopping a virus. It’s crazy, I know. The CDC said that about masks before COVID walked out of the Lab in Wuhan, and there’s been tons of data that confirms those facts.
The ones the CDC revisited a few weeks before it said, hey – you don’t need to wear masks anymore.
Unless you meet these criteria.
I’ve had the privilege of the company of the same lovely lady for over 30 years, but I remember dating. These tweaks feel like a relationship that might be dead, but no one knows how to end it?
Quick tip, backed by loads of peer-reviewed research. Those masks didn’t work before we named the flu COVID, and they did not work during or ever after. Their new guidance is nothing more than poll-tested politics. New public health guidance increasingly looks like their pre-covid guidance.
That’s bad, but it’s actually worse. If a meaningless piece of material makes someone feel safer, you, as public health experts, might want to warn them that it does not protect this virus, especially if they are genuinely at high risk.
Oh, wait. You can’t do that. You just spent the past two years lying about masks. Your only recourse is to pretend they work and lean on the CDC guidance.
All the harm caused by the useless mandates, pointless lockdowns, meaningless remote learning, dangerous vaccines, and death by hospital protocols you stood behind. You were even scaring people away from safe, effective, affordable early treatment options or preventions that would have kept many thousands out of hospitals and alive.
If the truth came out, someone might decide to pile all those upon your “professional” doorstep.
Do you know that your job is to protect public health, not bow down to bureaucrats in DC who promise your department buckets of cash if you toe their line?
Maybe it’s time to stop and reflect on the failures instead of acting like the public health establishment didn’t just screw the pooch for the past 24 months. And if you can’t do that, voters need to find politicians who will do the looking and replace them with talent that cares more about health than politics and payoffs disguised as policy.
It’s your state not theirs. Take it back.
