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Francis Collins Admits No Evidence For Six-Foot Social Distancing
The Federalist ^ | May 17, 2024 | M.D. Kittle

Posted on 05/17/2024 10:23:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

My wife is a wonderful woman, but she has horrible taste in television. She, at times, will acknowledge this shortcoming as “guilty pleasures.”

One of her favorite streaming “programs” is the hospital drama “New Amsterdam.” It’s god-awful. More unreal than reality TV. This woke piece of soap opera pabulum is utterly unwatchable. Every once in a while, perhaps to punish me for crimes I am not aware I have committed, she will turn “New Amsterdam” on the bedroom TV before we go to sleep. When the latest overwrought episode mercifully comes to an end, I ask the love of my life the same two questions: Why do you hate me, and where do I go to get the last hour of my life back? 

At least it’s just an hour. 

In the Covid soap opera, the lockdowners, the “follow the science” preachers, took years from our lives on a foundation of bad science. Some of us knew that while we were in the throes of the endless Covid Red Alert; the rest are learning it these days from the same charlatans who ran the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

Testifying earlier this year in a closed-door interview before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a transcript of which was released this week, former NIH Director Francis Collins confessed that the government’s sweeping social-distancing guidance wasn’t backed by the science we were all supposed to be following.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid; franciscollins; socialdistancing; tyranny
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1 posted on 05/17/2024 10:23:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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This was actually one of the first CoVid swindles debunked soundly on the basis of existing scientific studies. I recall being accused of Science Denial for sharing my skepticism (by an Art History major, no less).


2 posted on 05/17/2024 10:30:59 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I remember Useful Idiots walking around in stores wearing hula-hoops suspended around their waists to "force" social distancing.


3 posted on 05/17/2024 10:31:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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former NIH Director Francis Collins confessed that the government’s sweeping social-distancing guidance wasn’t backed by the science we were all supposed to be following.

For a bunch of doctors they didn't provide any advice based on data or medicine. I'm not a doctor, but we'd be better off if they just said: 1) Stay home for 3-5 days if you are sick. 2) Avoid long periods of close indoor confinement with others.

4 posted on 05/17/2024 10:36:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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TRUST THE SCIENCE!


5 posted on 05/17/2024 10:36:40 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Wifey and I used to watch that show until

Episode Intro showed breaking news on TV but didn’t reveal content. Multiple future scenes showed various characters walking down street, others at work, people going about business but everyone was in shock - you could tell people were greatly disturbed by the breaking news .

Next scene was the big reveal — Roe v Wade overturned

Click. Never again. Done!!!

6 posted on 05/17/2024 10:44:47 AM PDT by hillarynot (I play in Peoria)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The problem with people pushed beyond their level of competence into leadership roles is, they feel they must be seen to lead. While this is true because of the leadership role they’re in, incompetent people choose to do whatever sounds good, whether it’s effective or not. Remember, for people like this, it’s the appearance. And they may be stupid enough that they don’t know the difference between the “leadership” they’re providing and effective policy. Sometimes, as with Covid, there isn’t any proactive thing to do other than for everyone to hunker down and survive by washing their hands after they go out. Telling people to do what their mothers insisted on is not in their eye’s effective leadership. They make up things that are essentially superstition. Having bad leaders is much worse than having no leaders.


7 posted on 05/17/2024 10:57:50 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I still have a shirt that says, ‘STAY SIX FEET AWAY!’ I like it. Use it as much as possible.


8 posted on 05/17/2024 11:10:24 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Billthedrill

How were there existing scientific studies in a virus that hadn’t existed before 2019? Do people here not understand how science works?


9 posted on 05/17/2024 11:17:11 AM PDT by Kathy in OC
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We should never trust our government and the medical establishment ever again.


10 posted on 05/17/2024 11:18:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: Yo-Yo

And let’s not forget the retail and grocery stores trying to force people to only walk in one direction in the isles.......and people were doing it!


11 posted on 05/17/2024 11:22:42 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Kathy in OC

The studies were on mask efficacy with regards to various cold viruses, of which CoVid is one. And yes, I do know how science works.


12 posted on 05/17/2024 11:27:27 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Well, so much for fencing being the official sport of COVID.

1. You must wear a mask
2. You must wear gloves
3. If anyone gets within six feet of you then you can stab him

13 posted on 05/17/2024 11:31:05 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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“ And let’s not forget the retail and grocery stores trying to force people to only walk in one direction in the isles.......and people were doing it!”

Someone on this forum said they got yelled at for going the wrong way and said “arrows? I didn’t even see the Indians!” I tried to get someone to say that to me but never managed to. There is now a void in my life.


14 posted on 05/17/2024 11:36:12 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My favorite was being out on our great running/walking trails and seeing people wearing masks in the sunshine.
Anyone with an ounce of sense even back then, knew that sunshine kills viruses.
And the people wearing masks in their cars !


15 posted on 05/17/2024 11:38:42 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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And the people wearing masks in their cars !

When ALONE.

16 posted on 05/17/2024 11:40:12 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What else have they lied about, while they inflicted physical, mental, and finacial, pain on every man woman and child in this country?


17 posted on 05/17/2024 11:41:51 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America..)
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To: Billthedrill

...but...we know north koreans are undercover IT workers, not lying this time too.....

This time too....
This time too...


18 posted on 05/17/2024 11:44:42 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DUH


19 posted on 05/17/2024 11:53:26 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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bkmk


20 posted on 05/17/2024 11:57:07 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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