{"id":503895,"date":"2021-05-13T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=503895"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:36:00","slug":"theyre-big-brothering-us-cnn-msnbc-turn-on-bidens-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-big-brothering-us-cnn-msnbc-turn-on-bidens-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re Big-Brothering Us\u2019: CNN, MSNBC Turn On Biden\u2019s CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftheyre-big-brothering-us-cnn-msnbc-turn-on-bidens-cdc%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=503895&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-813491786.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration\u2019s decision to vastly overstate the likelihood of contracting COVID-19 outdoors isn\u2019t sitting well with one of its biggest allies: the legacy media. Multiple hosts on MSNBC and CNN said the inflated estimate shows that the CDC promotes \u201ca huge exaggeration,\u201d is \u201cnot following the science,\u201d and is \u201cBig Brothering us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The networks\u2019 atypical criticism coincided with a New York Times article which claimed the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-misleading-public-with-outdoor-virus-transmission-figure-report\">exaggerated<\/a> the rate of outdoor transmission of COVID-19 by up to 10,000%. Since late April, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has reportedly said \u201cless than 10%\u201d of all coronavirus infections had been contracted outside. The Times said that number is \u201calmost certainly misleading\u201d; the correct number is anywhere from 1% to 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s guidance is true in the same sense that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-bill-maher-hits-democrats-for-anti-science-covid-19-beliefs-gets-audience-to-applaud-ron-desantis\">less than 50%<\/a> of those infected with COVID-19 end up hospitalized, or that, before Sir Edmund Hillary, less than 50 people had scaled Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>In a one-two punch of media backlash, CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo and MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough called on the CDC to come clean on COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, facts matter. Truth matters,\u201d said Cuomo on Tuesday night, adding that he refused to \u201ccover for an agency just because it\u2019s under attack\u201d by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo wondered aloud if the Biden-Harris administration refused to update CDC guidance about mask usage for fully vaccinated people, because it wished to retain pressure for social control:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p>Why? Why didn\u2019t they update it? Is this about them Big Brothering us, and trying to keep it safer, longer? I could understand it. But it\u2019s not honest.\u00a0 Remember, it also took them months to update the guidance, telling us COVID is airborne. Remember, aerosolization, the word we all had to learn how to say, and that it wasn\u2019t all about wiping down surfaces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s comments came just hours after MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d host, Joe Scarborough, said the CDC report contained \u201ca huge exaggeration\u201d about outdoor COVID-19 transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re not following science \u2014 like not sending our kids back to school in a timely manner \u2014 you\u2019re actually undermining your credibility,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this case, the CDC undermines its credibility when it oversells a statistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to be guided by science, as we were saying during the Trump era,\u201d Scarborough added. \u201cIt is so important we don\u2019t overreact in the other direction,\u201d of magnifying the possibility of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough warned the CDC against being \u201coverly conservative\u201d \u2014 by which he meant overly restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Morning Joe\u201d host kept the pressure up online, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1392065373307080704\">tweeting<\/a> a copy of the New York Times article which debunked the CDC report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.989247311828\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Misleading C.D.C. Number <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rr9202w1z1\">https:\/\/t.co\/rr9202w1z1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1392065373307080704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Evidently aware that Scarborough\u2019s comments had made waves, the show\u2019s social media accounts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1392430665388417027\">shared<\/a> an article the next day from The Atlantic by Dr. Lucy McBride on \u201cWhy I Don\u2019t Think Kids Need Masks Outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration needs to be honest about the low percentage of people transmitting the coronavirus outside \u2014 beginning with a visit to his show, Scarborough said on Wednesday. \u201cWe need people to get on \u2014 CDC officials \u2014 we need Biden White House officials to get on and say what the epidemiologists said to David Leonhardt, which is, \u2018Come on, it\u2019s next to impossible to catch this outside.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky went on \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d and Shepard Smith\u2019s CNBC program on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>On Tuesday night, former Obama administration health policy director Dr. Kavita Pritel told Smith that \u201cthe CDC\u2019s credibility is eroding as quickly as our cases of coronavirus are eroding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"19.609756097561\">\n<p>Conservatives have long been skeptical of government COVID-19 lockdowns and their attendant shuttering of small businesses, profligate bailouts, government payments to individuals, and restrictions on houses of worship. But legacy media scrutiny of the lockdowns specifically, or the Biden administration in general, is a relatively rare phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html\">According to the CDC,<\/a> \u201cA mask is NOT a substitute for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/social-distancing.html\">social distancing<\/a>. Masks should still be worn in addition to staying at least 6 feet apart, especially when indoors around people who don\u2019t live in your household.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden-Harris administration\u2019s decision to vastly overstate the likelihood of contracting COVID-19 outdoors isn\u2019t sitting well with one of its biggest allies: the legacy media. 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