The Directors of the US Centers for Disease Control are back with more advice on optimizing discomfort, infection, and spread of COVID-19 (Shouldn’t it be COVID-23?) this holiday season.
Joined @RepJasmine @JudgeClayJ, and @DrPhilHuangDFW at @DCHHS on Friday to talk about ways to keep you and your family safe this holiday season – vaccines, masks, testing & treatment are just a few of the tools you can use! pic.twitter.com/5loeSW1MxQ
— Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) November 20, 2023
The contradictions out of the gate are painfully obvious, which the Twitchy author notes in their opening. No one is wearing a mask.
Nobody paid attention, but the director of the CDC got together with some other tools and stood next to each other without wearing masks to tell you to wear a mask to keep your family safe this holiday season.
Despite a universal understanding that COVID tests are ill-suited to the task, someone continues to make millions, maybe someone at the CDC; I’ve lost track. But test kits make a great stocking stuffer for the Karens on your list, and nothing says Joy like, hey, test yourself for COVID, or something!
The CDC has also admitted that vaccines do not prevent infection or stop the spread, but this is like a relationship where both parties know it has ended. Neither of them knows what to do after, so they keep acting like nothing is wrong (hint: the people need to stop getting jabbed and end this crazy thing).
And masks. Masks? There is a reason no one is wearing them in the photo. They never worked, and the CDC knew that before COVID, but there is a mountain of new research about how masks don’t prevent infection or spread. More than you can shake a (something medically sounding) at. But that doesn’t seem to matter. I still see people, including young people at businesses I frequent, who wear a mask (even an N95) every day they work.
I watched a carriage fetcher at a local grocery store who has been masked since the halcyon days of Pandemicville, circa 2020, that (to this day) wears an N95 until he is in his car by himself. No one is ever going to get through to that guy. So, when the CDC squeaks, they listen. But a few years from now, maybe less, that individual and those like them will be confronted with a panoply of symptoms or conditions related to restricting their airway every day for several hours every day.
CDC Guidance on masking, updated in May of 2023, fails to address health risks except for a sliver of the population with certain pre-existing conditions (and children). At the same time, they are promoting making, including cloth, as providing some protection.
- Masking is a critical public health tool for preventing spread of COVID-19, and it is important to remember that any mask is better than no mask.
- To protect yourself and others from COVID-19, CDC continues to recommend that you wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently.
- Masks and respirators are effective at reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, when worn consistently and correctly.
None of this is true, nor is the CDC informing people of the risks, and that needs to change.
