The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out [...]

If you are asymptotic and you are infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, especially those with essential jobs

I like how they've been explaining it on the Death Panel podcast... for the last 2 years, whenever the US has had to choose between saving lives or making sure the capitalists' profits don't suffer, they choose profits. Every. Single. Time.

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      3 years ago

      Someone at my family Christmas gathering tested positive despite the vaccine and so I immediately packed up to go home and quarantine. My mom came running out to tell me about the latest CDC guidance in an attempt to keep me at the house and it made me so irrationally mad. I apologized for snapping at her, but goddamn. How do people not understand that the CDC is a political organization like any other?

      • ToastGhost [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "Covid cannot infect you without your consent, just say no" -the CDC guidance

    • ennuid [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      like… the CDC is also still pushing cloth masks over N95s despite knowing N95s are way more effective

      Guess that means there's another shortage

      • Mother [any]
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        3 years ago

        Cloth + surgical, surgicals are not N95