Posted on 03/01/2022 4:27:04 PM PST by Kaslin
For the first time in two years, children are walking back into classrooms mask-free. For too long, policymakers and public perception have associated success with the absence of COVID.
But COVID is still present, so what is driving this sudden change of policy?
Children have suffered a great deal from the pandemic lockdowns and have not been made a priority to regain normalcy as information evolved.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic many restrictions, such as mask-wearing in schools, were quickly enforced through desperation to slow the transmission despite negligible data proving benefit. But there were a lot of unknowns during this time so an all-hands-on deck effort could be justified.
However, by summer 2021 enough data emerged demonstrating cloth masks predominately had no perceptible benefit, and the low risk of severe COVID in children became apparent. Yet, no updates were made by the CDC regarding mask-wearing in schools. In fact, despite vaccines being readily available for everyone five years and older, it doubled down on its school masking recommendations as the less severe Omicron variant became dominant.
Schools are not documented places of high-risk exposure for kids yet too many have been kept home through remote learning because of closures, having close contact exposure, and various other reasons. When in-person, they still have been distanced from others with faces remained covered, and they were discouraged from physically interacting with one another. This has remained despite data from as early as November 2020 from the CDC, UK, and other countries showing low risk of in-school transmission. While the U.S. is the only country to recommend children two years and older wear masks, other countries with less stringent mask recommendations began removing school mask requirements more than eight months ago without a sharp uptick in hospitalizations as a result.
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Apologies? How about arrests?
Apologize? Not happening.
What will happen is the agency will get rewarded with a bigger budget.
Americans deserve an apology from everyone who voted for Biden, including the dead voters.
Every parent should have their kids read Animal Farm. I think the kids will get it.
The Covidian chicken littles ruled the roost far too long.
Seems like old Fox was all in with BS for most of it.
They have ZERO credibility and won’t be getting any of it back...ever. None, Nada. They should just close the doors and go home. The country, indeed the world, would all be better for it.
The same goes for several other of those 3-letter crap holes.
God...I hope Fauci is not there...for a standing ovation.
They have been killing is for two years and she thinks an apology will suffice? Sorry lady, that won’t cut it.
Maybe that will our "public servants" from believing that they are our "public masters."
day 10 posted this on a related thread:
DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you.
Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation. Visited family. The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.
They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.
Do not forget what they have done. Do not forgive them. They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmare
of the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best thr Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose
their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us. Project. Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).
DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity. Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a
“public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.
NEVER FORGET.
REMEMBER in NOVEMBER!
Apologies?!?
How many Americans lost their businesses because of all this B.S.?!?
“..oh gee, we’re sorry…”. Doesn’t cut it.
Not by a LONG shot.
Given the state of education today, I think it will have to be read to them.
I like your idea - I will spread this idea far and wide
It is hardly Biden’s Anti-science Machine.
Oh, they may have the same goals, and an otherwise symbiotic relationship, but the CDC has been a corrupt, self-serving bureaucracy that exists mainly to collect bribes for its executives from the medical industry, and has been thus since long before Biden became a pseudo-powerful politician.
Covid-19 fact links are about as popular as the Chicken-pox
on social media.
I don’t want an apology. I want justice. I want them charged with crimes against humanity. I want the appropriate sentence carried out. Even then, it isn’t enough.
There's a Whole Foods-like grocery that is on my way home from work. I sometimes stop there out of convenience - though it's overpriced. It's a haven for the ‘woke’, and just about everyone in there is wearing a mask.
“by summer 2021 enough data emerged demonstrating cloth masks predominately had no perceptible benefit” WTF. The data has show cloth masks and surgical masks to be worthless at stopping influenza for the past 15 years. For N95’s the data is mostly negative as well.
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