CDC Now Says More Than 70 Percent of Americans Can Ditch Indoor Masks – Opinion

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined new masking guidance on Friday, marking a significant change in the CDC’s prior “mask safety” guidelines: about 70 percent of Americans live in places where healthy people — Schools should include students — can safely stop wearing masks indoors.

As reported by the Associated Press (which includes approximately 37 percent of all counties and 28% of the total population), the CDC recommends masking for counties in which the risk of contracting the virus is high. Significantly, the new measures greatly change the look of the CDC’s “risk map,” with more than 70 percent of us living in counties where the risk of COVID poses a low or medium threat.

I find this to be my favourite (and most hilarious) part.

The guidelines are not “binding.” Local governments will continue to determine their own community guidelines. Meanwhile, freedom-loving American citizensWill continue to be determined They are theirs guidelines.

The bottom line: COVID Joe™ Biden was hardest hit by the “winter of severe illness and death” news.

National Review reports that Rochelle Walensky is the Director of CDC. [rolling eyes emoji]  explained the rationale behind changing the guidelines [again moving the goalposts closer to where the rational among have known they belong for how long?]According to Friday’s reporters, it was clear that just looking at test-positivity or the COVID number does not reflect the severity.

Again, DUH.

We are releasing the Covid-19 community level today. This will help CDC make recommendations about prevention measures like masking. CDC will also recommend layered prevention measures based on this Covid-19 level.

The new approach is focused on protecting those at highest risk of severe illness, and to preventing overcrowding hospitals and other health care facilities.

National Review reported further: [emphasis mine]

According to new guidelines, designations are given to counties according the following criteria: The spread of communityCovid-19

Counties with less than 200 new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the past week have “low” community levels of the virus if Covid-19 hospital admissions are less than ten per 100,000 or less than ten percent of staffed hospital beds filled by Covid-19 patients on average in the last week.

Counties with ten to nearly 20 new Covid-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 people or between ten percent and 14.9 percent of staffed hospital beds filled by Covid-19 patients on average in the past week are at “medium” levels of the disease.

Counties with 20 or more new Covid-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 or at least 15 percent of staff hospital beds filled by Covid-19 patients on average in the past week are at “high” levels of the disease.

It is true that almost everything COVID-related has come from Walensky and the CDC. A growing percentage of Americans have a skepticism, at the best, or outright dismissed. Add the power-drunk COVID Gnome “emerging and infectious diseases expert,” Anthony Fauci, COVID-obsessed occupant of the Oval Office, and the lapdog, liberal media sock puppets of CNN and MSNBC — along with the continually-moving goalposts — and it is it any wonder?

Meanwhile, as we reported, Chicago’s embattled Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday announced the Windy City will drop its mask mandate for most settings, as well as its proof-of-vaccination mandate at restaurants, bars, and other indoor establishments, at the end of February.

Additionally, the wingnut governor of Washington, Jay Inslee announced on February 17 that the heavily-blue state would kick its mask mandate to the curb, while two California school districts have now defied the state’s hypocritical as hell Gov. Gavin Newsom decided to make masks voluntary for students.

And as we reported earlier in February, even The Washington Post has finally admitted: “Mask mandates didn’t make much of a difference anyway.”

Meanwhile, a bewildered Joe Biden wistfully wanders the halls of the White House, late at night, reminiscing about the “good old days” of the pandemic — a pandemic that has been over-hyped by the Democrat Party and liberal media from the beginning.

Or delusional Joe is still stubbornly clueless. He clings tightly to his Mask and wax obsession like Michael Moore desperately clutching a bag of McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with Cheese.

Or both? Meh.