Posted on 02/01/2022 10:34:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
NN contributor Dr. Leana Wen on Tuesday published a piece saying America needs to get back to normal now that the Omicron variant is on the way out. This stands in contrast to the message Wen wrote late last year urging the Biden administration to enact heavy pandemic restrictions.
While both of her write-ups talk about lingering threats on the horizon, the difference now is Wen wants the public to not be afraid of COVID-19 anymore.
In a pair of dueling Washington Post op-eds, Wen reverses course on COVID-19 rules. In November 2021, Wen penned the prior piece by leaning heavily on the Omicron variant being an unknown threat at that time.
She believed Americans coming home from places like Africa needed mandatory stays in quarantine facilities to self-isolate. Her proposed solution was a regime of extensive testing and masking. "The Biden administration was right to take the dramatic and difficult step of re-instituting travel restrictions, and administration officials need to do even more" was Wen's main idea back in the fall.
But now in February 2022, Wen switches to appealing to public demand. From favoring restrictive measures, she now believes that "new and possibly dangerous variants are likely to emerge. But it is precisely because of this future threat that we need to allow normalcy now." Unable to let go completely of fearing the unknown, Leana says "rapid removal" of COVID-19 restrictions must occur when hospitalization rates are on the decline.
Once a staunch advocate of protective gear and equipment, the CNN contributor now describes masks as a bygone relic that's making Americans upset.
The point of consistency for Wen is her push for vaccine requirements. But now she thinks "it's not fair" to place restrictions on vaccinated people whatsoever. Her overall train of thought lines with her earlier beliefs about segregating society on this basis that she espoused throughout 2021.
🎶And the politics, they are a-changin’🎶
It's also in line with establishment Democrats across the nation shifting the COVID-19 narrative in order to save their careers in the eyes of the general public, amid doubts about their midterm election prospects. But that won't work to favor voters.
According to The New York Times, a poll now says less than half of Americans approve of how the Biden administration is handling the pandemic now. That's a decline from a 66 percent approval total in July of last year.
The pivot on pandemic messaging is evident. A recent January 2022 study by Johns Hopkins University concluded that lockdowns had "no public health" impact, but they did cause severe economic and social disruption.
F that Commie C**t!
Yeah midterms. This virus was political.
< >What a duplicitous, lying FUNT!</b>
For those not in the know you add f**king and c*nt and you get FUNT.
I make mistakes but lately I’ve been making more than usual. IOS 15 for iPhone works as well as Biden’s brain. Nothing works in my iPhone anymore. The upgrade is junk, apps crash, and writing and editing text on my iPhone is almost impossible now.
They will try to take credit for eradicating the virus before the midterms. Just watch.
This is the same woman who was all of a sudden everywhere proclaiming that everyone everywhere had to start wearing N95 masks just a few weeks ago. She’s just one of the “experts” being inflicted on our country by CNN.
Did not see THAT one coming, did we?
I beg to differ.
They are not going to just *try*.
They WILL.. Guaranteed.
Many of us saw this coming months ago.
DUH! Kin I be one o’them thar medeecal expertz, too?? This is so predictable
“They will try to take credit for eradicating the virus before the midterms. Just watch.”
Yes they will.
Shameless.
New "medical expert advice" as a function of time over the two+ years off the hysteria is as follows:
Yes. No. Two weeks. Yes. No. Yes. No. Racism. Yes. No. Climate change. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Lockdown. Yes. No. Warp speed Republican bad. Warp speed Democrat good. Restrictions. Lift restrictions. Test, Test, Test.
CNN. The most busted name in news.
Yep, those poll numbers are showing a tipping point.
At a certain point, after being lied to over and over again, the public will just stop listening to the lying politicians and political hacks, and never ever trust them again. We are already past that point with the media, and now apparently with the political punditry. Once again, the Left overplayed its hand. Hopefully, they will be destroyed by their lies, as they should be.
Born in Shanghai, China.
It never crossed my mind to Google her before. Per Wikipedia, she is the former PRESIDENT OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leana_Wen
And include an astroturf social media campaign celebrating our new post-lockdown “freedom” to move about without restrictions. The same politicians who crippled the economy will pat themselves on the back for attempting to undo the damage they caused and their sycophants will echo the propaganda
The left can say that wiped Ronna out at any time they wanted to. If they control the press, they control the narrative.
If anyone opposes them. They will be banned, banished, and cancelled.
Proof, statistics, and evidence won’t mean a thing.
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