The Democratic Party’s COVID Ouroboros
Early last week, President Joe Biden pledged to pursue a more “aggressive effort” to promote the lifestyle benefits of getting vaccinated. “It’s not only you can hug your grandchildren,” he said. “You can do a lot more.” Communicating the value of getting vaccinated had suddenly become an urgent mission for this White House.
The CDC had only recently informed fully vaccinated people that the only upside to being immunized against COVID was that they could now go without masks in outdoor settings something that the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike were doing without the CDC’s imprimatur. That caution was the subject of intense criticism among elite opinion makers as the downsides associated with COVID maximalism had already become apparent. Pandemic-related mitigation measures, including school closures in concert with expanded unemployment benefits, produced a tremendous drag on the economy’s recovery from its post-pandemi
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The new guidance issued by the CDC on the use of face masks caught the White House and businesses off guard last week. On Tuesday, CDC director Rochelle Walensky told a Senate committee that the Biden administration’s masking policies were important to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and remained in place. By Thursday, the guidance had completely reversed itself. Toss off those masks if you have been vaccinated, we were told.
That was a very dramatic change in the span of just two days. Also of note, the Washington Post reports that Walensky signed off on the new guidance on Monday, the day before she testified to the Senate committee. Why did she proceed as though nothing was changing? Her performance smacks of politics and phony science. Flipping the switch in a matter of just two days presents the opportunity for CDC’s critics to feel vindicated in questioning its expertise and ability to lead during a pandemic. The Biden White House and everyo
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Replay Video UP NEXT If you’re going to Starbucks or Target, bring your mask. But if you swing by Trader Joe’s, you can leave it in the car, assuming you are fully vaccinated of course. That said, if you’re taking public transportation to get there, you’ll need to mask up for the ride. After 405 days of urging every man, woman and child to wear a mask, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stunned much of the nation this week including health experts – with its recommendations that vaccinated Americans can mostly ditch the mask. The decision left businesses, governors and schools scrambling to respond and an emerging hodgepodge of rules for masks, depending upon which state, county or store a person is in.