{"id":2246707,"date":"2024-05-17T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-expert-francis-collins-finally-admits-there-was-no-science-for-six-foot-social-distancing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:15:51","slug":"covid-expert-francis-collins-finally-admits-there-was-no-science-for-six-foot-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-expert-francis-collins-finally-admits-there-was-no-science-for-six-foot-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Expert Francis Collins Acknowledges Lack of Science Behind Six-Foot Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-expert-francis-collins-finally-admits-there-was-no-science-for-six-foot-social-distancing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2246707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the admission by Francis Collins, former NIH Director, that \u2062the social-distancing guidance lacked scientific basis. It highlights \u2064the\u2062 negative\u200b impact of such policies, the economic\u2062 repercussions, and the \u2063silencing of dissenting voices. \u2064Collins\u2062 also shifted his stance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-said-he-would-press-china-on-the-origins-of-covid-he-hasnt\/\" title=\"Biden Said He Would Press China on the Origins of COVID. He Hasn\u2019t.\">lab-leak theory<\/a> of the virus&#8217;s origins.\u2063 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-claimed-it-doesnt-share-data-with-communist-china-but-evidence-says-u-s-users-are-compromised\/\" title=\"TikTok Claimed It Doesn\u2019t Share Data With Communist China But Evidence Says U.S. Users Are Compromised\">revelations raise concerns<\/a> about governmental decision-making during the pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>My wife is a wonderful woman, but she has horrible taste in television. She, at times, will acknowledge this shortcoming as \u201cguilty pleasures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of her favorite streaming \u201cprograms\u201d is the hospital drama \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7817340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Amsterdam<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s god-awful. More unreal than reality TV. This woke piece of soap opera pabulum is utterly unwatchable. Every once in a while, perhaps to punish me for crimes I am not aware I have committed, she will turn \u201cNew Amsterdam\u201d on the bedroom TV before we go to sleep. When the latest overwrought episode mercifully comes to an end, I ask the love of my life\u00a0the same two questions: Why do you hate me, and where do I go to get the last hour of my life back? <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-808703132\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e8d327c52ab3d27c375f8de36d6d305d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e8d327c52ab3d27c375f8de36d6d305d\"><\/div>\n<p>At least it\u2019s just an hour. <\/p>\n<p>In the Covid soap opera, the lockdowners, the \u201cfollow the science\u201d preachers, took years from our lives on a foundation of bad science. Some of us knew that while we were in the throes of the endless Covid Red Alert; the rest are learning it these days from the same charlatans who ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Institutes of Health<\/a> (NIH) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\">National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Testifying earlier this year in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-i-wont-jump-on-bandwagon-to-cancel-sen-cruz\/\" title=\"Don Jr.: I won\u2019t jump on bandwagon to cancel Sen. Cruz\">closed-door interview<\/a> before the <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/subcommittee\/select-subcommittee-on-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Collins-Transcript-5.16-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transcript<\/a> of which was released this week, former NIH Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/staff\/Francis-S-Collins-MD-PhD#:~:text=Francis%20S.-,Collins,%20M.D.,%20Ph.,Dr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francis Collins<\/a> confessed that the government\u2019s sweeping social-distancing guidance wasn\u2019t backed by the science we were all supposed to be following. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018I Did Not See Evidence\u2019 <\/h2>\n<p>On March 22, 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> issued what amounted to placebo guidance advising Americans to avoid mass gatherings and remain at least six feet apart from each other. The warnings were stark. One research paper published in the NIH\u2019s National Library of Medicine was titled, \u201cSix feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black Community.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32609079\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Just beneath<\/a> the report is another on \u201cLGBTQ+ Loss and Grief in a Cis-Heteronormative Pandemic: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of the COVID-19 Literature.\u201d Your tax dollars at work. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6c95cae52bf2b5db5a8e94aebbb4a017 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6c95cae52bf2b5db5a8e94aebbb4a017\"><\/div>\n<p>The businesses the government deemed essential \u2014 the supermarkets, the pharmacies, the big-box retailers \u2014 marked the dividing lines, two yards between life and death, on the floors and in checkout lines. <\/p>\n<p>But Collins and crew, including the smug and self-righteous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/about\/anthony-s-fauci-md-bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a>, the immunologist who ran the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a dangerously long time, made a <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/dr-anthony-fauci-paid-more-130000506.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">very good living<\/a> segregating a society at an unprecedented level. The damage done from the scientists\u2019 sign-off on a long and cruel isolation experiment will take a long time to fully measure. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe six feet of separation recommendation had real life consequences. This guideline made it nearly impossible for schools nationwide to re-open due to the pressure from teachers unions to follow this guideline. In addition, businesses had to adapt at great cost or risk complete closure,\u201d states a Thursday subcommittee staff <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024.05.16-SSCP-Staff-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a> on the Collins interview.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"0XHtrnhBjqAwfM3EqnGya1QjWF86ZNmJKeg3LirXVPcGT2OLcoQb4vy09JfU7ubDY5wPl41m5oCS7Wds2UIBeO9KkiTpuYZztFl\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Former NIH Director Francis Collins admits no &#8220;science or evidence&#8221; ever supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">social distancing<\/a> policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5JgYJRzKsw\">pic.twitter.com\/5JgYJRzKsw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nataliegwinters\/status\/1791093229485519302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But the government-imposed individual internment camps were all worth it, right? Social distancing, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/cdc-admits-post-vaccine-myocarditis-concerns-that-were-labeled-covid-misinformation-are-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deeply flawed vaccines<\/a>, prevented 800,000 deaths, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2024\/05\/09\/social-distancing-plus-vaccines-prevented-800000-covid-deaths-great-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlines last week proclaimed.<\/a> But when asked whether he believed any science or evidence supported the six-feet rule, Collins said he did not. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a2676bd04bc91fcd45c33ee6f3a13f20 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a2676bd04bc91fcd45c33ee6f3a13f20\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIs that I do not recall or I do not see any evidence supporting six feet?\u201d a Covid subcommittee staff member asked the good doctor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not see evidence, but I\u2019m not sure I would have been shown evidence at that point,\u201d Collins replied. <\/p>\n<p>But what about four years later? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince then, it has been an awfully large topic. Have you seen any evidence since then supporting six feet?\u201d the staffer asked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d the former NIH director conceded. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Science Silencing Dissent<\/h2>\n<p>No evidence. \u201cFollow the science.\u201d The cognitive dissonance is mind-blowing. <\/p>\n<p>Youth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationwidechildrens.org\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2023\/02\/bridge_ruch_youthsuicide_pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suicide rates exploded<\/a> in the wake of lockdown isolation. Schoolchildren everywhere were left behind in an arbitrary and unnecessary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/ideas\/news\/24\/01\/despite-progress-achievement-gaps-persist-during-recovery-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost year-plus of education<\/a>. Small businesses in droves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/econres\/notes\/feds-notes\/business-entry-and-exit-in-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-preliminary-look-at-official-data-20220506.html\">shut down<\/a>. Government bureaucrats stepped all over basic rights, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/13\/rise-of-the-fourth-reich-makes-the-case-for-the-covid-reckoning-america-desperately-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abridging <\/a>travel, livelihoods, and even worship. <\/p>\n<p>And they did it all with no evidence. <\/p>\n<p>More than that, when people \u2014 including some concerned scientists \u2014 began standing up and speaking out about these insane guidelines that fueled draconian restrictions on liberty, they were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/31\/bidens-white-house-colluded-with-big-tech-to-gag-covid-dissenters-like-alex-berenson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">silenced<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/31\/us\/violating-coronavirus-orders-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Or worse<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>During the subcommittee interview, Collins also came clean on what the \u201cscientists\u201d relegated to the ramblings of the tinfoil-hat crowd, that the origins of the virus that is suspected to have played a part in more than <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/region\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1.12 million deaths<\/a> in the United States remains up for debate. In other words, the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in China is no conspiracy theory. The former top government health official had vehemently disagreed with the lab-leak theory, a theory that government agencies believe is not only plausible but <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/classified-state-department-documents-credibly-suggest-covid-19-lab-leak-wenstrup-pushes-for-declassification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201clikely.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Collins changed his tune in the January interview. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll it\u2019s calling for is a \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no.\u2019 Is the possibility of a lab leak a conspiracy theory?\u201d a subcommittee staffer asked Collins, who briefly demurred, according to the memo. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to define what you mean by a lab leak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting aside de novo, the possibility of a laboratory or research-related accident, a researcher doing something in a lab, getting infected with a virus, and then sparking the pandemic. Is that scenario a conspiracy theory?\u201d the staffer pressed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at this point,\u201d Collins said. <\/p>\n<p>As the subcommittee <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024.05.16-SSCP-Staff-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a> notes, \u201cThe investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is ongoing and there is no incontrovertible proof of either a zoonotic or a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2. Yet, this debate is so charged that Americans were censored on social media, and it led to a change in the way scientific debate was conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins is now acknowledging that the origin of the virus is still unsettled science. <\/p>\n<p>I remember late March 2020, when the lockdowns were first starting to hit. My aunt, who is also my godmother, was diagnosed with an aggressive, fatal cancer. For two weeks, the medical facility locked her away from her husband and family in the Covid-quarantined hospital, as they did with the other patients. Finally, hospital officials relented and sent my aunt home to die. She passed away a couple of weeks later. The social-distancing mandate had robbed my grieving uncle and cousins of precious time to say goodbye. Unconscionable forced separation happened to thousands upon thousands of dying Americans and their families \u2014 based on bad science. <\/p>\n<p>Who will hold these willfully errant scientists accountable? And where do we go to get those stolen years of our lives back? <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e1dd471a0bc143ab9516f91c11236ba5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e1dd471a0bc143ab9516f91c11236ba5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife enjoys &#8220;guilty pleasures&#8221; in television, like the unrealistic hospital drama &#8220;New Amsterdam.&#8221; Despite her wonderful qualities, her taste in shows can be questionable. This overly dramatic series is more absurd than reality TV and lacks watchability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2246708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-17-at-6.50.26%E2%80%AFAM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-17-at-6.50.26%E2%80%AFAM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}