Posted on 08/17/2022 1:08:05 PM PDT by lightman
White House COVID-19 czar Ashish Jha on Tuesday admitted that the six-foot social distancing rule that was implemented in early 2020 isn’t actually effective.
Over the past several years, “a lot of time” was spent “talking about six feet of distance, 15 minutes of being together. We realize that’s actually not the right way to think about this,” he said during a White House briefing on COVID-19.
“That’s not the most accurate way to think about this,” Jha said, adding that it is about “the quality of air you’re breathing around you.”
In a crowded indoor area with poor ventilation, people can “get infected” with COVID-19 “in minutes,” Jha said, adding that being outdoors you can be “outside for long periods of time” and not get infected.
Jha made those comments in regards to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) having relaxed guidelines around COVID-19. That included dropping the six-foot social distancing rule.
The agency last week rescinded a number of rules and made key updates to its recommendations, now stating that unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals should essentially be treated the same, while explicitly saying that those with a prior infection have protection against severe illness.
Starting in early 2020, federal health agencies issued a recommendation that people keep at least six feet of distance away from one another. Health departments, businesses, corporations, and schools across the United States then adopted the rule, leading to restrictions such as capacity limits and lockdowns.
‘Nobody Knows’
A former administration for the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, revealed in late 2021 that the six-foot rule was made up.
“Nobody knows where it came from,” Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member, told CBS News. “Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu, where droplets don’t travel more than six feet.”)
The CDC, he said, initially recommended a 10-foot rule, and the six-foot rule was a compromise between the federal health agency and Trump administration officials.
“So the compromise was around six feet. Now imagine if that detail had leaked out. Everyone would have said, ‘This is the White House politically interfering with the CDC’s judgment.’ The CDC said 10 feet, it should be 10 feet, but 10 feet was no more right than six feet and ultimately became three feet,” Gottlieb remarked.
The CDC also said in its update that it’s no longer recommending unvaccinated people to quarantine after exposure. Unvaccinated people who have been in close contact with an infected person aren’t advised to go through a five-day quarantine period if they haven’t tested positive or shown symptoms, according to the revised guidelines.
Regardless of vaccination status, according to the CDC, “you should isolate from others when you have COVID-19” or are “sick and suspect that you have COVID-19 but do not yet have test results.” Previously, the CDC said fully vaccinated people who were exposed could skip the quarantine period.
But...we will never get rid of the stupid footprint stickers on the ground. Or the stupid partitions.
Trump screwed the pooch on COVID. No doubt Covid was hyped by Deep State intelligence agencies to trick a germaphobe president into crushing the economy before an election.
It’s the entire reason why my two teens were not permitted to attend schools for 18 months. Couldn’t fit a whole classroom of students in desks 6 feet apart. Even 3 feet apart (CDC guidance for schools finally in Spring of 2021) couldn’t support full classrooms and my teens got 2-3 days a week of “hybrid” and masked school only. (Ultimately I switched one to homeschooling and one to private, but CA restricted private schools similarly until they lost a Supreme Court lawsuit but the damage had been done.
It was freakin' "GUIDANCE" but the Chicken Littles turned it into a law of the Medes and the Persians.
Within a few days of “2 weeks to flatten the curve”, every single “essential business” had those social distancing stickers on the ground and plexiglass by the registers.
And the first two words that popped into my head were “central planners”. From that moment on, I knew this was a highly organized pysop that was probably planned for over 10 years, at least.
Never again hesitate to tell any and all of such defective human beings to simply shut their braying mouths, even more so if they're family members.
It's their problem they didn't learn schoolyard rules or learn about the gods of the copybook headings. Don't let them make it yours ever again.
‘Nobody knows where it came from,’
I think it came out of Europe. I was hearing 2 meters from a British doctor on YouTube at the beginning before the six foot distancing thing really took off here.
Read The True Believer by Eric Heller.
Travel restrictions and forced vaccination or job termination.
Those cowards are on the wrong site.
One local grocery chain had an even more stupid rule back then. When you to the checkout, only one person’s items were allowed on the at one time. So if you were next, you had to wait until the person being checked out had finished having ALL their stuff scanned and bagged. Then the next person could start putting items on the belt.
Naturally, I asked about this policy. I was told it was in place to keep my groceries away from the other person’s so if I had the plague and had given it to my Cheerios box by touching it, my infected Cheerios couldn’t pass it along to the other person’s gallon of milk.
I pointed out LOTS of people touch LOTS of items on the shelves and put some of them back without buying them. Did they wipe down every single item on the shelves every few minutes to prevent my Cheerios becoming infected by someone who touched them and then changed their mind?
I got yelled at by the store manager for being anti science.
Hopefully you acknowledged their superiority and thanked them for their public service by putting their masters degree in biochemistry to good use as a grocery store manager.
They forgot to profit off official CDC Authorized 6 foot poles.
They will get around to it in the latest version,
MonkeyCovid outbreak, in late September.
Thank you!
You’re welcome. Excellent book written by an autodidact.
I love the 1-way aisles.
Eric Hoffer. I read it back in college.
I think it’s a great book.
It was good. I tried to read one or two of his other books (don’t remember which) without success.
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