{"id":525186,"date":"2021-05-19T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525186"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:36:05","slug":"cdc-blows-it-again-with-mangled-mask-mandate-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-blows-it-again-with-mangled-mask-mandate-message\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Blows It (Again) With Mangled Mask-Mandate Message"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fcdc-blows-it-again-with-mangled-mask-mandate-message%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=525186&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\/masks-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had some really big news last week: It\u2019s time to return to normal for those who are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are fully vaccinated, you can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic,\u201d the CDC said in an updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated.html\">guidance<\/a> on COVID-19. \u201cFully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky went further, saying: \u201cAnyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities \u2014 large or small \u2014 without wearing a mask or physically distancing. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, phew! For the vaccinated, the pandemic is effectively over! Just in time for summer! Back to the bars, the restaurants, big clubs, baseball games. We have finally \u2014 finally \u2014 made it through the worst virus crisis in a century.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart, Costco, Sam\u2019s Club, Publix and Trader Joe\u2019s all immediately announced that they\u2019d ditch the mask requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, tribal laws? That\u2019s right. It turns out the CDC \u201cguidance\u201d meant diddly squat. What rules us all are state and local laws. Hang on, there\u2019s more: Every business and office building and sports venue can also have its own rules too.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC issued its new guidance Thursday. By Sunday, Dr. Walensky was singing a whole \u2019nother song. She hit the political talk shows to walk it all back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guidance that we released on Thursday is about individuals and what individuals are at risk of doing if they are not vaccinated,\u201d she said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d adding that decisions on mask mandates need to be made at the \u201ccommunity level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC director also appeared on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d where she said the new guidance will be \u201ca slow process\u201d to implement and won\u2019t happen everywhere at the same time. In one of the greatest understatements since President Biden took office, Dr. Walensky acknowledged that the new guidance has created confusion that will take \u201chard work\u201d to explain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that we need to do the hard work. This was individual guidance to understand what this means for communities, what this means for businesses. We know at the individual level the vaccinated people are safe,\u201d she said. \u201cMore than one-third of Americans have been vaccinated, over 45% of adults above the age of 18. Those people are safe when they get vaccinated after they are fully vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But they still have to wear a mask if they go \u2014 well, almost anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said Monday that the CDC blew the rollout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the play call was right, but they fumbled the ball at the one-yard line in terms of communicating this to the public,\u201d he said on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adams, who served as surgeon general under President Donald Trump from 2017 through the end of his term in 2021, said the new CDC guidance left everyone \u201cblindsided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you miss the nuance about protecting yourself versus protecting an organization,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a little bit of whiplash for the American public in terms of them saying just a week before, \u2018Keep your mask on\u2019 and then all of sudden they\u2019re saying, \u2018Now you can take them off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then they said, \u201cNah, put \u2019em back on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has badly blown it before. First, the agency said the virus was transmitted by touching surfaces with the germs. But just last month, it said \u201cit is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC also claimed there was roughly a 10% chance of catching the virus outdoors, but experts this month said that the risk is less than 1%. The CDC reportedly based its outdoor transmission figure on research that came from cases at construction sites in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, summed up the chaos during a Senate hearing with Dr. Walensky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always considered the CDC to be the gold standard. I don\u2019t anymore,\u201d she said during a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, here we have unnecessary barriers to reopening schools, exaggerating the risks of outdoor transmission, and unworkable restrictions on summer camps. Why does this matter?\u201d Collins asked. \u201cIt matters because it undermines public confidence in your recommendation, in the recommendations that do make sense, in the recommendations that Americans should be following.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really makes you wonder what else the CDC got wrong and is still getting wrong, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><em>*Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had some really big news last week: It\u2019s time to return to normal for those who are fully vaccinated.\u201cIf you are fully &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278535,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/masks-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CDC Blows It (Again) With Mangled Mask-Mandate Message","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/masks-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CDC Blows It (Again) With Mangled Mask-Mandate Message","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525186","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}