It's hard to tell. Maybe the Canadian and US truckers are having an effect. Maybe the politicos will finally have no choice but to listen to the people—the people they're supposed to serve, not rule. Anyway, even Pfizer reps are getting in on the game.
From The Epoch Times, this article:
Pfizer Board Member: Time to Consider Dumping School COVID-19 Mask Mandates
Former Food and Drug Administration Director Scott Gottlieb suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should revise its COVID-19 mask recommendation for schools.
“We’re going to probably have to tolerate, and probably should, a higher level of baseline spread at the point at which we consider withdrawing some of this mitigation,” Gottlieb, who is currently a Pfizer board member, told CNBC on Wednesday. Pfizer recently indicated that it is seeking an emergency use authorization from the FDA to give its COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 6 months of age.
Gottlieb added that if the federal government holds out and waits “for 10 cases per 100,000 per day in most communities, we’re probably going to be waiting until the summer” then “we’re going to lose the opportunity this spring to try to return some sense of normalcy in the schools.”
The current CDC guidance, he added, is “a pretty high threshold in the age of Omicron,” noting that a study carried out before the Omicron wave suggested that 90 percent of Americans have COVID-19 antibodies through a prior infection, vaccination, or both.
For over a year, the saner among us have been saying to stop counting cases (confirmed infections) and start counting deaths directly from COVID. The death rate just about everywhere varies a bit above zero to about 2%. In South Korea, no matter how you count it, the death rate is under 1%. Slap this fact on tee shirts everywhere.
Damn—maybe I should design a tee.
God, I hope you are right. That death rate has never justified the efforts to control and deny freedom of movement. What's the end game?
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