COVID impacts Black and Brown communities the hardest.

Communities of color are far more likely to take COVID precautions such as wearing a mask or avoiding high risk spaces.

If you care about racial justice, you should be continuing to take actions to mitigate COVID spread.

Overall, 4 in 10 people in the US have taken recent precautions (inc. masking or avoiding spaces) because of increases of COVID-19.

Imagine how many more would if instead of minimizing, the government told them it was important to continue precautions.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-september-2023/

@luckytran The government has lost its authority and has in fact acquired a kind of "anti-athority" where people upset with past actions by the government will go out of their way to defy and distort government messaging. Anyone who would listen to a CDC message about additional precautions is likely already on your 40%. Why set off the starting gun of anti-government rhetoric for a small number of people who might listen to more than what is already being said?

I promise you there are a lot of smart well informed people in the Biden administration and they know that they are doing playing this low key. It is not just political, it is valid social science. When the government faces a hostile lack of authority, the worst thing to do is press that authority and loose.