So the CDC is releasing the results of their own study which said a) most people think transmission where they live is much lower than it is, and b) this directly led to people taking risks they WOULDN’T otherwise take.
In other words, the CDC *knows* exactly what their misleading “community levels” map is doing, and yet they are *STILL* pushing it anyways.
So according to THEIR OWN REPORT, the CDC tricked people into taking risks they wouldn’t knowingly *choose* to take by showing them deliberately misleading maps that convinced them transmission was low when it wasn’t.
They bypassed your consent and manufactured it instead.
(Report is here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7146a2.htm )
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This was the whole purpose of introducing the “community levels” map, and bouncing the original *transmission* map into harder & harder spots to find on the site + putting it under big warnings about how they were for hospital use only and shouldn’t be used by anyone else.
They knew you wouldn’t consent if you knew the real risks, so they designed a whole new map that would HIDE the real risks and convince most folks transmission was “green where I live” when it was still in the red.
And they did it WHILE doing countless interviews/press conferences repeating the same piece of coordinated propaganda:
“Everyone has the tools they need to make their own risk assessments now.”
All while studying the fact they KNEW that wasn’t true.
I don’t understand how people aren’t burning shit down honestly.
They knowingly convinced you to send your kids into unmasked classrooms by showing you a deliberately misleading map to convince you transmission was low because they needed you back at work & eating in restaurants.
And they’re just quietly releasing this report like that’s not a bombshell admission.
I just don’t think most people truly understand yet.
They tricked you into sacrificing your children in order to keep the wealth of the 1% growing.
And they are quietly releasing a report that says “it worked REALLY well too!”
And they aren’t changing a single thing in response.
Because this was the plan, & the plan worked. Nothing to see here folks. Just keep up the “normal.” The commercial real estate investors need those office buildings to stay full & the restaurants to stay busy.
Thank you for saying so well what I've been thinking for months. It's enraging. I don't know how parents aren't losing their minds.
They told parents that lacked critical thinking skills that their children would be immune if they exposed them. These parents still believe its no big deal and will continue to do so until their child winds up in the ICU. The parents whose children haven't been to the ICU yet will whisper that it is nothing to worry about because that child was obviously defective.
Those are the seeds Western Governments have sown.
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I still remember the anger livid #fury I had when I got my 2nd infection over #NYE 2021 after 2 #vaccines I timed to #maximize #protection over #winter while still #masking the whole while
When people #wakeup & realize what they consented to #disability #premature #aging early onset #diabetes #tachycardia #kidney disease #cancer #rsv #hbp #hearing loss #arrythmia #vision loss #alzheimers #dementia etc
I’d imagine they would be angry…
They should be #covid
@graeme_0 @StephTait I don't think that's really that messy! Affordable housing benefits teachers/nurses/etc, who are often priced out of their communities.
It's hard to imagine that a specific component of their pension is a bigger deal than housing affordability.
@graeme_0 Yeah, I guess that's true. But malls are dying anyways, office buildings can (mostly) be converted, and all of these businesses are fundamentally just land speculation.
I dunno! Teachers unions have been fairly consistently clear that they don't want their members to die.
@steven @graeme_0 sadly in the USA I feel teachers unions let us teachers down nearly every possible way. They haven’t advocated adequately or effectively for indoor air quality improvements via filtration or ventilation and capitulated to Biden’s push to drop mitigations and return to ‘normal’. They didn’t secure accommodations for high risk teachers; staff, or students.
We had to return to in person teaching in august of 2020 before good masks were widely available and well before vaccines.
@Mathlover @graeme_0 North American unions are in such an awful position for anything. For the most part.
Part of it's definitely an old incumbent class, but a lot of it is also the huge... you don't really have the right to assemble. That's mostly gone now.
I dunno, man. Everything sucks.
I was trying to think if there was a safe way to assemble in person, and I realized if everyone was issued with full face P100 masks to stop the viruses...
...then I realized that you can get cartridges for them which protect against tear gas as well as viruses...
...still thinking about this
@Mathlover Yes. I am not disagreeing with that.
I think I was going more for a "teachers unions were one of the few organizations advocating fiercely for lockdowns, and governments ground them down into a fine paste."
Yep. It's terrifying. 2,000 people a week are still dying from Covid and no one seems to give a crap😔 What's going to happen when Covid mutates to beat the vaccines? Will they bring back mask mandates? Recommend restaurants and bars close? I honestly don't think they will.
I wish we’d stop focusing on hospital/death rates. I have body systems still messed up from the “milder Omicron” 12 weeks out. I’m not a whiner, but it’s not fun. No more ice cream, yogurt, milk, cottage cheese, cheese, pizza, cheesy Italian or Mexican, and…most everything else hurts my stomach too. I’m on meds. I know about Lactaid. It’s still rough. I’m still grieving and suffering. Probably have to try a even more limited diet next.
It worked for them TEMPORARILY. These jackasses are very, very short-sighted.
Actual economists can see what's coming next, with the "worker shortage". But these jackasses aren't listening.
@StephTait As somebody who has been working from home for the past 15 years, it was an easy choice to allow my kids to do remote schooling. Bring back masks for the entire school year, then I would be fine sending them back.
But if my kids really wanted to go back, I would let them. They just don't want to. Plus they are aware of the situation so who can blame them.
I, too, have worked from home since before COVID and it was an easy decision to put my kids in virtual school as well. It's really a privileged place to be, especially because they don't want to be there anyway, like yours.
The CDC lost me when they said vaccinated people didn't have to wear a mask😐 Then they bowed down to Delta's CEO and cut the quarantine time in half🤬 I'm still wearing my mask😷
Many of them are still invested in thinking Dems are the good guys and that somehow the GOP is solely to blame for it all. Even though this shit is a bipartisan production brought to us by self-absorbed rich fucks who will always give us the bare minimum and then blame us for getting sick, becoming infirm, and dying. The "rugged individualism" myth affects so many people who can't even see that it IS a myth-- and not solely the RWing as Dems like to claim.
Burning shit down wouldn't do anything. Let's plan. Organize. Let's make this effective.
"Don't get mad -- get even." We can. But we aren't organized enough yet. Which orgs are you working with?
This, specifically this, the fake map, is one of the crimes for which Walensky should be brought to the Hague on crimes-against-humanity charges.
Malicious intent is proven.
I think it's worth naming names here -- we know Walensky personally approved the plans for the CDC to publish the fake map.
We aren't sure who else is guilty -- there should be a full investigation, emails published etc. -- but *definitely* Walensky. Investigation should start now.
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It's incredible that it's been almost a year that they "had to be pushed" to acknowledge the fact that #COVIDisAirborne , but can't come to terms of enforcing or even strongly recommending non pharma measures.
In Chile we actively pursuing this with a complete study of 7 layes of protection #las7capas but we are awaiting to be heard.
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