If not said outright, certainly implied. The beginning of the lockdown was presented to us as this big united front akin to a war that we would get through no matter how long it took to get a vaccine (with the scientists saying it would take 2 possibly 3 years done properly) and that covid was going to be eradicated and within a matter of weeks the consent manufacturing machine was totally revved up and the goal posts kept getting moved and restrictions undone and just fucking shit, bleagh. I'm in Florida and I've just been watching the rest of the country doing what we were doing on a delay and I am thoroughly :marx-joker:
And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We're vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442 (they use backticks for ' for some reason so Ctrl+F "WALENSKY: First of all, I just want to note that I share this optimism")
Apparently the intellectually honest thing to say would be "all these things reduce transmission but don't totally", but that is apparently even less effective than saying "stops". so idk
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If not said outright, certainly implied. The beginning of the lockdown was presented to us as this big united front akin to a war that we would get through no matter how long it took to get a vaccine (with the scientists saying it would take 2 possibly 3 years done properly) and that covid was going to be eradicated and within a matter of weeks the consent manufacturing machine was totally revved up and the goal posts kept getting moved and restrictions undone and just fucking shit, bleagh. I'm in Florida and I've just been watching the rest of the country doing what we were doing on a delay and I am thoroughly :marx-joker:
DIRCDC Walensky states:
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442 (they use backticks for
'for some reason so Ctrl+F"WALENSKY: First of all, I just want to note that I share this optimism")deleted by creator
Apparently the intellectually honest thing to say would be "all these things reduce transmission but don't totally", but that is apparently even less effective than saying "stops". so idk
they definitely dangled the "carrot" of dropping mask mandates for vaccinated people. Which was counter productive.
I don't think the CDC said anything but President Biden said it at least once.