The Centers for Disease Control just quietly proposed abandoning the isolation guidelines around COVID — and so proved again that America’s public-health establishment must face a reckoning.
Per reports, the agency will recommend that people with COVID — nigh on four years after the pandemic hit — no longer in general need to isolate for five days; they’re good to go once their symptoms improve.
In other words, the central prop on which America’s destructive COVID policy was premised — that the disease was so deadly dangerous to all that anyone testing positive for it had to lock themselves up like a leper — is now set to be abandoned by the very “experts” who previously insisted it was essential.
The media who screamed that the people daring to question such rules were no better than Nazis have gone oddly silent on this retreat — plainly, because most Americans long ago stopped heeding CDC advice on COVID.
But then this is only the latest in an endless train of errors and willful malfeasance that led to the shutdown of American society with zero effect on the plague’s deadliness.
Consider the whole concept of social distancing.
Anthony Fauci admitted before Congress that it was utterly lacking in scientific basis (and no shock, given that it derived from a high-schooler’s science project).
Oopsie!
That’s no consolation to the business he and his cronies helped destroy, or those unable to visit their loved ones in their last, miserable days in hospitals, or any of the other monstrous absurdities public-health fascists inflicted on America.
Don’t forget the directives around school closures and re-openings, utterly political decisions made in flagrant defiance of data showing both the schools were never meaningful vectors of transmission and that kids are not generally at much risk from COVID.
The result?
A literal lost generation of learners, likely impaired for life.
Recall the inability of public-health masterminds to accurately count COVID cases, rendering data around spread nonsensical.
Or the colossal test-kit fiasco for which both the CDC and the Food & Drug Administration are guilty, the former for producing an inaccurate test and sending it out the door even though it knew about the problems, the latter for stalling private-sector efforts to create better tests.
The errors of our public-health officials, compounded by their refusal to admit (beyond craven retractions) that they were wrong, are chronic and systemic.
In other words, the whole system is rotten from top to bottom.
As admirable as congressional efforts on this front are, no amount of individual accountability for Fauci, Rochelle Walensky or their many, many co-conspirators would suffice as a remedy.
It’s time to put all our public health experts into isolation, and not let them out until their symptoms — narcissism, hunger for power and a deep hatred of science — are 100% gone.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
