re: CDC drops 5-day isolation guidance for Covid-19 moving away from key strategy

Good. My kid had to wind up staying home a week. Never ran a fever or even coughed. Her arse should have been in school.

Don't forget, amidst all the lockdowns, BLM protests were exempt:

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For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19—stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings.

Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.

“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

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You are absolutely correct. But two things can be right . The shutdowns, distancing , masking, mandatory vaccinations and large scale denial of basic rights were a huge government overreach and the consequences will be felt for decades.


Can’t wait for the first Covid years sitcom to hit.

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You are absolutely correct. But two things can be right . The shutdowns, distancing , masking, mandatory vaccinations and large scale denial of basic rights were a huge government overspend

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You are certainly correct. But we also have the benefit of hindsight now, something no one had in the beginning. So given all of the panic over what people were seeing in the first few months, what would you have them do? It's an honest question.

I'm pretty sure everybody on this board was guilty of hoarding toilet paper right off the bat, so there was a level of hysteria that had taken everyone for a ride. This board was littered with horror stories in the early days. It's like everyone conveniently forgot.

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You are certainly correct. But we also have the benefit of hindsight now, something no one had in the beginning. So given all of the panic over what people were seeing in the first few months, what would you have them do? It's an honest question. I'm pretty sure everybody on this board was guilty of hoarding toilet paper right off the bat, so there was a level of hysteria that had taken everyone for a ride. This board was littered with horror stories in the early days. It's like everyone conveniently forgot

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I work in healthcare and I can agree to a certain extentsith what you’re saying, but……
From the beginning of this the government left no room for discussion from any healthcare scientist that went even slightly against the grain of what the CDC spit out and a lot of what they did put out was utter nonsense and garbage science, especially to people working in labs who knew enough to know what was ridiculous. Covid, especially the first two strains, did kill a lot of
folks. The majority of whom had a co-morbidity known or unknown to them at the time they got sick. There are other viruses that do the same. There have been some admissions of overreaction by a few , but the “what else could we have done” argument is weak when you consider the lack of scientific debate allowed at the beginning of the nightmare and the use of the disease for political advantage.

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6 ft apart

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I'm ok with people staying 6ft away from me. Was good with it prior to COVID.

Makes sense….the disease has just become a very bad cold, and should be treated as such.

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From the beginning of this the government left no room for discussion from any healthcare scientist that went even slightly against the grain of what the CDC spit out and a lot of what they did put out was utter nonsense and garbage science. Especially to people working in labs who knew enough to know what was ridiculous. Covid, especially the first two strains, did kill a lot of
folks. The majority of whom had a co-morbidity known or unknown to them at the time they got sick. There are other viruses that do the same. There have been some admissions of overreaction by a few . But the “what else could we have done” argument is weak when you consider the lack of scientific debate allowed at the beginning of the nightmare and the use of the disease for political advantage.

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Not in disagreement with you. My wife works in healthcare also, so I saw a lot from her perspective. But I still think what we witnessed in the early phase was a reaction to what we could confirm was happening in real-time and a lack of any real plan to curb it conceived before it hit.

It was a clusterfrick of thought among officials trying to find SOMETHING they could say that would quell the mass panic taking place and prevent total anarchy. I think they saw that as a legitimate potential outcome and we know that doesn't fly. So issuing all of their guidance was them doing something in their minds. I think we can all agree that most of it was unhelpful (some of it downright ludicrous), but I don't think they felt there was adequate time to entertain a debate as things were transpiring. They started with the most restrictive measures they could and decided it best to loosen those as they figured out more along the way. I'm not saying it was the right way to handle it. I just think there would be criticism regardless of which way they opted to go with it.

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Covid & all the crap the CDC pushed divided this country so deepy. This country is noticeably different than pre covid

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Entire generations will never view the medical community without skepticism post Covid.

Irreparable harm was done to the reputation of the CDC, AMA and the perception of vaccines because of what happened around the 2020 election cycle with Covid.

They lied about every single facet of the infection, their protocols and the vaccine and are just slow trickling out the truth now that people have moved on.

I wonder if Dolly Parton feels stupid now, for donating a big million to Moderna.

95% effective.