You had an interesting confluence of folks from the left and the right blasting the new CDC guidance on cutting time in isolation after testing positive from 10 days to five days if one is asymptomatic, and not getting a PCR test after the five days because the test might show a positive for up to 12 weeks — whether or not you are no longer contagious.
People on the left were furious that all this was happening now. They wanted to find out why.
Folks on the left were suddenly discovering that the Biden administration wasn’t just making a decision based on public health and that there were factors other than science entering the consideration, according to what Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
Meena Harris was the niece of Kamala Harris and Dr. Jerome Adams were among the people who raised objections to this new guidance.
Harris implied that Harris’s Biden-Harris Administration decision put lives in peril.
Meena Hari is an example of such a poster pic.twitter.com/4kTpfehPFI
— ❄️hio Warren Dems (@PersistOhio) December 29, 2021
I’m guessing that she didn’t think deeply about what her aunt might say when she posted it. However, she eventually deleted the post. But the internet will never end. I’m going to guess that she gets a little bit of a talking to about posting things that could be harmful for the administration. Her opinion was not unlike many others on the right. Meena Harris announcedAlthough she was already vaccinated, and had been boosted to prevent COVID, it occurred just before Christmas.
But it wasn’t only folks on the left. President Donald Trump’s surgeon general Jerome Adams was also concerned about the new guidance because of the PCR aspect of what the CDC was saying. This raised the question, “How do you tell if you’re still contagious?” Five days is a random number; you aren’t necessarily magically not contagious at the end of five days.
“I love the CDC,” Adams tweeted about the new CDC guidance. “Grew up wanting to work there and have been one of their most ardent defenders. It was a dream of mine that I would one day advise others not to follow their lead. Breaks my heart. Ask any one of them. They wouldn’t even follow it for their own family.” He continued, “Regardless of what CDC says, you really should try to obtain an antigen test. (I know- easier said than done) and confirm it’s negative prior to leaving isolation and quarantine. There’s not a scientist or doctor I’ve met yet who wouldn’t do this for themselves/their family.”
Adams also blasted CDC Director Rochelle Walensky for being misleading and confusing about the tests, calling her comments about the tests an “artful (and harmful) dodge that “confuses & lowers trust in all tests.”
It was very disconcerting to see.
A) No one was calling for PCR (which CAN stay + for weeks)- experts were calling for negative antigen – which reflects live virus. This was an artful and dangerous dodge.
B) Harmful b/c confuses & lowers trust in all tests. https://t.co/U6qMFFjJ9I— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) December 30, 2021
I’d reiterate what I said yesterday: why is this advice coming now, as opposed to before? They are only considering priorities such as economics and people keeping jobs. Society is not at a standstill. If they knew — and they did know — that the PCR tests could throw up positives for up to 12 weeks, despite a person no longer being contagious, why have the PCR tests been used as a determinant that someone was no longer contagious to go back to work or school?
Folks on the left and the right are pounding the Biden team over this, and it’s completely justified. It’s been an absolute mess.
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