CDC Changes Quarantine Rules from 10 Days to 5 Days -- As Fauci Admits It's About Economics

A welcome change, for most.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just dropped adjusted quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 and vaccinated individuals. This is after an outcry from the airline industry that the guidelines and the surge in Omicron variant cases were causing staffing shortages.

Quoting AP:

U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.

Is this based on "The Science"?

Nah, son. It's based on what everything the government does -- politics, and appeasing powerful interests. Such as the airline industry.

The thing about cutting the requirements down to 10 days to five days is that it might make scientific sense, but I'm curious as to why they are only discovering this now, after going on almost two years of all this? Why didn't they apply this before? It would seem it should have already been apparent. They say it's that the decision is based on keeping things open because of the sheer number of people testing positive with Omicron.

Dr. Anthony Fauci made it clear on CNN that the move was at least in part political and economic, "to keep society running."

"The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out," Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why CDC changed Covid isolation guidelines. pic.twitter.com/g48XwcDdJh

-- The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) December 27, 2021

Now I don't object to the change -- but I am going to underline that this decision, like the recommendation to close schools, was made not based on "The Science" but by the request of powerful lobbies. The airline industries wanted this; the teachers unions demanded schools be closed.

Though I bet "The Science" is much, much stronger in supporting this latest change.

But still, that isn't why the decision was made. The science has been clear since May 2020 that children have low risk from covid and transmit covid at very, very low rates but we've kept schools closed, and kept kids masked, because the Democrats' key labor constituency and donor group the teachers union demanded we punish kids to make teachers feel Important and Respected.

And it's probably been clear for a long, long while that 10 days quarantine was excessive and unnecessary.

The reason for the change, then? Not science -- complaints from industry.

Barely anything in the past two years of the pandemic has been done because of science. It's all politics. And dirty, crude, base-stroking politics at that.

The Left is aghast that Fauci admitted that "The Science" is really The Politics:

posted by Ace at 12:03 PM

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