Policy
Despite how strictly many CDC rules have been enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, during the pandemic and now later, many have questioned the validity of those policies.
One was for individuals to maintain six feet of so-called “social distancing” from their neighbors.
On Wednesday, the White House's chief physician throughout the pandemic — who has promoted the social distancing rule — said the six-foot rule wasn't really based on anything.
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“It is not based on any data”
Townhall reports on the House Republican Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, “The committee, led by its chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), delved into 14 hours of testimony in which Fauci admitted That his six-foot social distancing recommendation was “likely not based on any data.”
truly? Surely this cannot be the case. right?
The story continued:
“He kind of showed up,” the GOP-led committee wrote, citing Fauci. “Dr. Fauci admitted that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.
Nearly four years after civilization collapsed because Democrats spread a mostly non-life-threatening virus, Fauci suggested that his “recommendations” — AKA mandates — were based on a desire to control sheep, proving that the majority of society was obedient and compliant. Uninformed.
The committee revealed that Fauci “advised American universities to impose vaccine mandates on their students,” despite the former National Institutes of Health director's admission that vaccine mandates could “increase vaccine hesitancy in the future.”
“This comes after nearly four years of encouraging publication of an infamous ‘proximal origin’ paper that attempted to discredit and discredit the laboratory leak hypothesis,” the committee wrote.
While we should take reports of closed-door meetings with a grain of salt – why are Republicans keeping this process secret anyway? -If this is true, it provides a perspective on how government works.
Perhaps more importantly, it provides a perspective on how bureaucrats are viewed Their topics Taxpayers.
“During his interview today, Dr. Fauci claimed that the policies and mandates he promoted may unfortunately increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come,” Rep. Westrup wrote in his findings. Moreover, the social distancing recommendations imposed on Americans “just came out” and were likely not based on scientific data.
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Experts
In fact, these new reports are consistent with what we've already heard: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration during the Trump administration, called six feet “arbitrary.”
If the same could be said about the fines imposed. Jobs lost. Psychological effects. Catastrophic decline in school performance. Dreams shattered.
We all remember how insisting authorities were that Americans follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, including distancing in public spaces and even in private businesses like restaurants, theaters and retail stores.
Elites wonder why so many Americans no longer trust government and institutions.
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