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Former FDA Commissioner Says Social Distancing Mandate ‘Wasn’t Based on Clear Science’
www.theepochtimes.com ^ | 03.21.2021 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 03/21/2021 1:38:54 PM PDT by rxsid

Former FDA Commissioner Says Social Distancing Mandate ‘Wasn’t Based on Clear Science’

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that the six-foot social distancing mandate that was employed across much of the United States and the world to deal with the CCP virus pandemic “wasn’t based on clear science.”

“This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single costliest mitigation tactic that we’ve employed in response to COVID … and it really wasn’t based on clear science … we should have re-adjudicated this much earlier,” he said in an interview with CNBC.

In the midst of relaxation of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus rules—including one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying it’s safe for schoolchildren to have three-foot distancing—Gottlieb suggested that masks may also be safely removed."

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Gottlieb also was asked about a public dispute between Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who is a physician himself, about whether masks should be worn after a recipient is vaccinated for the CCP virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease.

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Gottlieb said “both [Paul and Fauci] made valid points,” but noted that “Senator Paul was right, we need to see light at the end of the tunnel and have guidance that prescribes an environment where people can start doing things again.


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The "social distance" stuff was arbitrary at best. Not to mention, they never had an eye protection mandate. Since you can get infected by viruses through your eyes, only covering your mouth and nose with a piece of ill fitting cloth and leaving the eye completely unprotected was never serious.
1 posted on 03/21/2021 1:38:54 PM PDT by rxsid
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Ping!

Former FDA Commissioner Says Social Distancing Mandate ‘Wasn’t Based on Clear Science’

2 posted on 03/21/2021 1:39:14 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Wasn’t based on clear science.

Ya think?

The virus is real, but the other 97% has been raw crowd control politics.


3 posted on 03/21/2021 1:42:25 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: rxsid

You can get a lot of viruses through touching infected surfaces and/or people and then touching yourself, particularly your face. That’s the primary mode of transmission from viral pink eye to Ebola. But, touch generally isn’t a robust mode of transmission for respiratory viruses and this one is no different.


4 posted on 03/21/2021 1:49:14 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: lurk

Indeed.


5 posted on 03/21/2021 1:49:26 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

orange

man

bad


3 words that explain our nations Covid policy


6 posted on 03/21/2021 1:50:24 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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That's really what it was all about. Putting covid policies in place to make Trump look bad, to destroy the best economy he helped bring about and to ultimately get him out of office.

They were all obsessed with hating him. Unprecedented what they did (& continued to do) to him, and his supporters.

7 posted on 03/21/2021 1:56:29 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

“adjudicate”?

Who is he? The prosecutor, judge and jury?


8 posted on 03/21/2021 2:01:24 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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To: rxsid

When they Yuts don’t take no learning in science, this is what you get. Previously 3 foot distance was fine so they doubled it. I’m sure they received more than a participation award.


9 posted on 03/21/2021 2:04:20 PM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: rxsid; All
It was probably easier for globalist elites to weaponize possible widespread vitamin D3 deficiency evidenced by COVID-19 in my non-medical opinion, than it is to continue beating dead horse with tired, politically correct global warming.

And speaking of politically correct global warming...


10 posted on 03/21/2021 2:25:48 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: rxsid

Wait, it should have been 7 feet? Or 5 feet?

I always wondered about the science behind the magical 6 feet.


11 posted on 03/21/2021 2:28:13 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: lurk

I think a 528 ft distance would work rather well.

Why hasn’t a breathalyzer been developed?


12 posted on 03/21/2021 2:38:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rxsid

Social Distancing invented by a 14 year old girl during the Bush Admin in 2006 ,LOL


13 posted on 03/21/2021 2:47:29 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: rxsid

SWAG


14 posted on 03/21/2021 2:49:14 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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But it sure got a lot of people screaming and advising. I have told busy bodies to f off more times then I should have when nagged by someone for walking too close.


15 posted on 03/21/2021 2:49:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: rxsid

Chew on this:

There is a lot of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.

Let that sink in.

Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?

Let that sink in.

Now consider this: In many States (Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.

Let that sink in.

Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.

Let that sink in.

Still hungry?


16 posted on 03/21/2021 2:51:55 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Organic Panic

“FauXi off” is the best reply.

Or “Go FauXi yourself”.


17 posted on 03/21/2021 2:54:34 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: butlerweave

I thought Social Distancing was invented by Nuns and Priests at Catholic School dances. A long long time ago.


18 posted on 03/21/2021 3:06:30 PM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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To: rxsid

More PROOF ALL Liberals are LIARS!!!!

May 11, 2020
‘Social Distancing’ is Snake Oil, Not Science
By William Sullivan

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/social_distancing_is_snake_oil_not_science.html#ixzz6pmr4KSxM


19 posted on 03/21/2021 3:08:35 PM PDT by afchief
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To: butlerweave

‘Social Distancing invented by a 14 year old girl during the Bush Admin in 2006 ,LOL’

and it was perfected by the Ohio State secondary in the CFB championship game...


20 posted on 03/21/2021 3:20:15 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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