Ignoring the realities of COVID
4 Jan 2023 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firecatThe Case for Wearing Masks Forever by Emma Green for The New Yorker
The title is clickbait but the article is interesting. It’s about the organization https://peoplescdc.org/ which argues that the sudden shift to “the pandemic is over” is bullshit, and provides alternative analysis of the data.
The title is clickbait but the article is interesting. It’s about the organization https://peoplescdc.org/ which argues that the sudden shift to “the pandemic is over” is bullshit, and provides alternative analysis of the data.
the People’s C.D.C. [is] a ragtag coalition of academics, doctors, activists, and artists who…have made it their mission to distribute information about the pandemic—what they see as real information
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“the C.D.C.’s data and guidelines have been distorted by powerful forces with vested interests in keeping people at work.”
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The People’s C.D.C. strongly supports mask mandates… arguing that “the vaccine-only strategy promoted by the CDC is insufficient.” The group has noted that resistance to masks is most common among white people.
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Date: 4 Jan 2023 11:09 pm (UTC)Strep is, of course, the bacteria ultimately responsible for scarlet fever. What's *really weird* is that scarlet fever mysteriously became a lot less serious sometime in the mid-20th century and we actually don't know why.
That's always been a little concerning in the back of my mind since I found it out (after the kids got scarlet fever for the first time) and now I'm wondering if our lack of understanding for why that happened has come back to bite us.
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Date: 4 Jan 2023 11:14 pm (UTC)I had no idea.