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Sorry, but I no longer believe ANYTHING the CDC puts out. They’ve lost all credibility with me, and with anyone with a brain.
What do some of the signers of The Great Barrington Declaration say? Or Simone’s group? Or anyone else with a proven track record of being right about the covid scamdemic over the last 2 years?
Never heard of them. As to believing the 10s of thousands of employees at CDC get up every morning, look in the mirror and get excited about going to work to lie — doesn’t seem credible.
That would extend to all the other health ministries around the world who arrive at similar conclusions. Those people get up in the morning, look in the mirror and just go do their jobs, which for compiling Excess Death data is pretty straightforward.
Here is what the CDC has been wrong about:
Vax will be long lived. You will be hard pressed to find an explicit quote from the head of the CDC saying this. They always were careful, but internal policy determination depended on it, and it has proven wrong. Notice I had to draw a conclusion. They never explicitly said that.
Masks work. They should have been careful to define “work.” We have right wing wackos concluding “work” means they contribute to the economy. They do not. They merely stop a few virus particles. Probably not enough to have much impact on spread of the disease, but they do stop some particles.
Masks . . . is a matter of deciding you live in the 21st century and have some understanding that viruses transmit person to person. They are not evil spirits. So if you’re facing 1 million oldsters dying, 23% above a normal year, you are desperate to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING to try to save your citizens. So masks and distancing was their best bet.
And now the bad news. China is locking down severely. They already have the maximum CONTROL over the society of anywhere in the world. They have no need for more CONTROL. What they do have is a desire to save the lives of their citizens, and apparently a higher moral high ground than US conservatives who want to compute the well being of the ECONOMY to transcend the need to avoid deaths.
China has opted for zero deaths over the pieces of printed paper called money. That is a far more moral position than saying “those old people were going to die soon anyway. Don’t do things that affect my income.”