Even as the United States approaches 1,000,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its latest directive. This time, the CDC says that it is fine for most people in America not to wear masks.
Many medical experts are aghast. They say it is way too soon to take the masks off and expose vulnerable people to the spreading virus. Medical advice to one side, it is pretty clear from the CDC's latest about-face in a string of recent about-faces, that the CDC is following political advice instead of medical advice.
President Biden's poll numbers are notoriously low in this early stage of his presidency. Pundits fill the air with their predictions that Joe Biden will not be re-elected. The Biden people do not believe that, of course. But they must be concerned. It's natural. Any politician would be concerned over poll numbers as low as the President's are right now.
Although the Biden people almost certainly do not believe that President Biden will not be re-elected in 2024, as things stand it will not be good to be in office when One Million People die in the U.S. from the pandemic.
So, perhaps this explains why the CDC suddenly is changing its mind and minimizing the COVID threat of death and terrible sickness. COVID has so clearly brought death and sickness to this country and COVID so clearly will continue to bring death and sickness to this country. The Biden people's solution seems to be to have the CDC minimize the pandemic, much as the former guy's people ignored the pandemic because COVID was not positive for their poll numbers either -- and the former guy's people were correct. Death and sickness from the coronavirus pandemic were not only negatives for their poll numbers, they were negatives for their numbers at the polls.
Ironically, the Biden Administration came into office not to manipulate the CDC, but to save it. The CDC was notoriously politicized by the previous regime. Now the Biden people appear to be doing the same thing, and for the same reason: Sick and dying people are not good for their poll numbers.
I hope that's not what's happening. It sure looks like it, though.
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