May 13, President Biden The Rose Garden ceremony was held and he declared: “Today is a great day for the United States. If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Vaccination-or wear a mask until you do.”
On the same day, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reiterated Biden’s statement, saying: “We all long for this moment – we can return to some kind of normalcy. “
Walensky continued: “Anyone who has been vaccinated can participate in large and small indoor and outdoor activities without wearing a mask or keeping physical distance. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing it and stop doing it because of the pandemic. Thing.”
That was then.
This is now.
On July 27, the CDC released the following information: guide. People who are fully vaccinated should “wear a mask in a public indoor environment in a large or high transmission area.”
And, “CDC recommends that all teachers, faculty, staff, students and school visitors, regardless of the vaccination status, should generally wear masks indoors.”
Why did the CDC suddenly switch to masks? Of course it is a Delta variant.
according to Valenski, “The vast majority of transmission occurs between unvaccinated people and through unvaccinated people. But unlike our Alpha variant in May, we don’t believe that if you are vaccinated, you can spread further-now The Delta variant of is different. We now see that if you have a rare breakthrough infection, you may be infected and you can spread further, and that’s the reason for the change.”
What Valensky did not mention is that the Delta variant is more transmissible, but much less harmful than the previous COVID-19 strain.
According to reports New York Post Editorial board, “On Wednesday, the Delta variant became the main strain of COVID in the United States. However, this is not the cause of the panic: these figures—especially in the United Kingdom, where Delta Air Lines has been hit hard—show that it has had a big impact. less Hospitalization and death, and the vaccine is still very effective against it. “
This postal The editorial board added: “The 7-day average of new cases in the UK is above 25,000, which is the highest level since late January, when the weekly average had just dropped from a peak of 50,000. But only 2,000 COVID cases were hospitalized, and There were nearly 40,000 cases in January. The average daily death toll was less than 20, compared with more than 1,000 in January.”
In other words, if you are fully vaccinated (or not vaccinated), the Delta variant poses little threat to healthy individuals under 65 years old, without certain comorbidities. So, why go back to the mask?
However, what is even more ridiculous is that the CDC recommends that all students (and school staff) wear masks in the upcoming school year, regardless of vaccine status.
According to CDC data, we know the fact that children are actually immune to COVID-19, including Delta variants.
According to the CDC, 282 children (5 to 18 years old) have died of COVID-19.This is equivalent to every year Children die of flu.
Therefore, the CDC recommends that all children wear masks for several hours a day, even if COVID-19 is basically not a threat to them. In addition, children rarely spread the disease.
On the other hand, wearing dirty and sweaty masks for several hours five days a week poses a real threat to children.
According to a A recent study According to the American Medical Association (AMA), “Most of the complaints reported by children can be understood as the consequences of increased levels of carbon dioxide in the inhaled air. This is because the dead space of the mask will quickly collect the exhaled carbon dioxide in a short period of time. The carbon dioxide is mixed with fresh air to increase the carbon dioxide content of the air inhaled under the mask, which is more obvious for young children in this study.”
This led the authors of the study to conclude, “Many governments have mandated that schoolchildren wear mouths, noses, or masks. The evidence base in this area is weak. We recommend that policymakers weigh these experimental measurements to produce conclusive evidence, which shows that Children should not be forced to wear masks.”
Unfortunately, the CDC turned a deaf ear to this.
But this is not surprising. Throughout the pandemic, the CDC contradicted itself many times.
CDC has become politicized.In fact, we know that the American Federation of Teachers participated in CDC’s guidance on the school reopening plan, thanks to Open email communication.
CDC has lost its credibility. It no longer makes decisions based on reliable science. It now makes decisions based on political pseudoscience.
Chris Targo ([email protected]) Is the senior editor of The Heartland Institute.
