Joe Biden will announce COVID restrictions as a escalation in the panic over the Omicron variant. You’ll be less than shocked to learn that those new restrictions make no sense whatsoever and are a complete slap in the face to science and data, which probably means Dr. Anthony Fauci came up with them.
Per Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Biden will speak on Thursday to make what’s coming official.
ALERT! Fox’s Peter Doocy claims that the White House will announce the most severe Covid restrictions against Americans on Thursday.pic.twitter.com/IMTT4RB1TA
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) December 1, 2021
Here’s what the new restrictions being prepared actually entail, and this is just what we know about so far. As we’ve seen at times in the past, Biden’s announcements have a tendency to be worse than originally reported.
The Biden administration is demanding this from all fully vaccinated and enhanced travelers. You kidding? https://t.co/9mbsBGa7De pic.twitter.com/RkeLdirAWf
— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) December 1, 2021
Let’s put aside the argument over being vaccinated vs. unvaccinated and how that should play into restrictions for a moment. I’ve written extensively in the past on the fallacy of that distinction in managing community spread and why mandates of any kind are largely useless. Still, even focusing on these regulations in the context of just those “vaccinated and boosted” individuals, they are pure insanity.
Requiring people to quarantine for seven days even if they test negative is something you’d expect to see out of the Australian government. Negative results do not mean that they should be kept in isolation for more than a week. They would also have been negative before the flight, so they wouldn’t be kept in a room for a week. Two negative tests. What are the reasons?
That’s really the cardinal question here. Do you think such measures would make any significant impact on the spread of new and existing variants in communities? Because if that’s the assumption, it’s a really bad one with no evidentiary backing. If we’ve learned anything over the last year, it’s that stopping the spread of COVID-19 is essentially impossible.
Florida and Michigan had COVID mitigation plans that were completely different, yet they both experienced big Delta variant spikes. This is due to what seems like a seasonal pattern. You certainly aren’t going to reduce spread by making the lives of international travelers, including US citizens, absolute hell for no reason. That’s especially true given spread on airliners continues to be largely non-existent due to the filtration systems in place.
These stupid regulations will have a devastating effect on those flying to Christmas to visit their families. The White House probably should consider it because this is only going to alienate certain demographics more, especially Latinos, of which a large number travel to and from their family’s home country several times a year, often over the holidays. Democrats are breaking down their tent faster than they’re adding new poles.
These people will never stop voting so learn from this. Every day will bring a new version and new panic. Democrats see too much power to be gained in continuing the cycle when they otherwise can’t win on the merits of their policies. This cycle must be broken by electing these individuals out of office at record levels. That’s why 2022 looms larger than ever.
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