CDC Now Wants To ‘Give People A Break From Things Like Masks,’ Pulling Back Recommendations

The following report is from CNBC:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reviewing its mask guidance, shifting its focus to Covid hospitalizations as a key measure of the severity of the outbreak and future guide for determining whether health safety protocols need to be tightened, according to the agency’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

We must consider hospital capacity as an additional important barometer. We want to give people a break from things like mask-wearing when these metrics are better, and then have the ability to reach for them again should things worsen.

Walensky told the public during a White House Covid update Wednesday.

The CDC currently recommends that people wear masks in indoor public places regardless of their vaccination status if they live in an area with high viral transmission. Nearly every county in the U.S. has high transmission right now, according to CDC data. People are required by federal law to wear masks on planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transportation.

However, states have started easing public health measures as new infections from the omicron variant rapidly decline from their peak levels in January. New York and California have dropped mask mandates for businesses, while New Jersey has also gotten rid of its mask requirement for schools.

Jeff Zients, White House Covid response coordinator, said the Biden administration is closely coordinating with state governors, public health experts and business leaders as the federal government plans for what the U.S. Covid reaction will look like as the wave of infection from the omicron variant subsides.

We’re moving toward a time when Covid isn’t a crisis, but it’s something we can protect against and treat. The president and our Covid team are actively planning for the future.

Zients said during Wednesday’s briefing.

The U.S. on Tuesday reported an average of about 136,000 new Covid cases per day over the last week, down 83% from the record high average of more than 800,000 cases per day set on Jan. 15, according to a CNBC analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. New infections are declining in nearly every state and D.C., according to the data.

About 85,000 patients are in U.S. hospitals with Covid, according to a seven-day average of data from the Department of Health and Human Services as of Tuesday. That’s also down from a peak of nearly 160,000 on Jan. 20.

As we have fewer cases, people will become more comfortable with taking off their mask, but we will certainly want people to have the flexibility to wear one if they so choose.

Walensky said.

The CDC director noted that people, regardless of transmission levels in their community, should wear a mask for 10 days if they have been diagnosed with Covid.

Omicron spreads faster than past variants, but it generally doesn’t make people as sick as the delta or alpha strains. As infections soared to unprecedented levels in the U.S., hospitalizations and deaths did not increase at the same rate. However, hospitals have still faced tremendous pressure during the omicron wave because the variant can cause severe disease in the unvaccinated, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Financial Times last week that the U.S. is heading out of the “full-blown pandemic phase of Covid-19.”

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12

I still maintain my forecast that the shew of mulling mandates and restrictions is only temporary, going against the grain of a lot of the conservative and alternative platforms. I could be wrong, but I just do not see it.

Every single leg of the way it has been lie after lie after lie… Let’s take masks for example. The “science has evolved” from laughing at masks and telling people not to buy them, then put them on, then mandate them basically everywhere; to promoting the wearing of double, triple and even quadruple at one point; to taking them off if you are vaccinated, put them back on a month later even if vaccinated; then promote KN95, to cloth masks being facial decorations; and now, to the ‘very scientific’ rhetoric of “giving the willfully ignorant serfs a break.”

Again, I could be a wrong, but I honestly see this as “hope deferred:” another moving of the goalposts. I think with all these manufactured rallies going on, it seems to me that the plan is to perhaps give the masses the mirage that they are winning, when in reality they WANT this, and after sometime, “Covid” (or some new “pandemic” to coverup for the vaccine catastrophe) will reemerge as the deadliest it has ever been, in the media, and then REALLY crack up the mandates.

Let me know your thoughts. I know I will never ever trust a word the media says, and you should not either.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 20:17

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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