P.U.T.U said:
Look at their post, "cases are spiking in 17 states", well 2 minutes of research on the CDC and Worldmeter pages says that is a lie, at the time of their post only 8 states had increases. We have epidemiologist, politicians, and scientist either lying or cherry picking stats for whatever reason.
Your have "experts" like Eric Feigl-Ding (nutrition and exercise doctor that then changed his title to COVID expert scientist) that has been maybe the largest proponent of keeping schools closed, despite all of the studies showing it is safe for kids to be doing in-person education, move his family to Australia so his kids could attend school in person.
We do not live in the 1950s where we rely on the 6 o'clock news for what is going on, we can do research on CDC, Worldmeter, Pubmed, etc. and establish our own conclusions. Sad as it is but with any expert you must follow the old Reagan saying of "trust but verify".
I do not care what other individuals do I was just stating how some people listen to these "experts" and condone anyone that does anything different. I have people at stores come up to me (which I do not get since that makes you more susceptible to getting something from me) and tell me by kids that are around 5 that they need to put a mask on for other peoples safety. Some people seem to be getting a power trip by enforcing whatever they believe.
All I care about is people getting he facts and doing what they want to with them. Not some "expert" that is pounding their drum on social media that is flat out lying and then they chastise me for going against what they say. The CDC should provide guidelines but that is all they should be. As mentioned all of the CDC studies on mask before Covid showed a 0.5% which is within a statistical chance of being effective, the 300 page document released due to the FOIA showed. But while the R0 value keeps going down we are all the sudden we need to start wearing 2 mask?
Maybe I am different but if you want to go out then go out, if you want to stay at home stay at home, if you want to wear a mask wear one, if you don't then don't. Just let us live the life we want to live. As far as to why did I care about the person requiring negative test before coming in their home is because they are relatives and it did effect my family. The week before Thanksgiving they told everyone in order to come in their house you needed 4 test, including the kids. They have a right to do what they want but that is a certain kind of special since the doctors offices were only open 3 days that week.
Exactly, there plenty of people who don't want this to end. Besides the numerous "expert" grifters like Fingle-Ding who are clearly attempting to capitalize on the panic and grow their follower-base, a number of doctors and epidemiologists that were completely anonymous a year ago are now on CNN every other day and definitely don't want to lose that fame.
Plus, local politicians like Hidalgo and Jenkins are also greatly enjoying their newly found power and trying to milk this publicity as much as possible for future office runs so they also definitely don't want things back to normal.