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.
@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."
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