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'Your children are safe to go to school. Also, ICU pediatric units are full.' (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2022 OP
Biden should have appointed a pandemic czar leftstreet Jan 2022 #1
Surreal, isn't it? SheltieLover Jan 2022 #2
I saw that Dr. Walensky appeared on Steven Colbert's show last night. CentralMass Jan 2022 #3

CentralMass

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3. I saw that Dr. Walensky appeared on Steven Colbert's show last night.
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 04:11 PM
Jan 2022

For an apparent pr booster. While there are some harsh realities of needing to get people back to a normal schedule I find myself thinking that the CDC is putting politics first. Pointing to stats and the "science" for these seemingly knee jerk changes in policy that seems to coincide with outside pressure, like Delta Airlines requesting a shortening of the quarantine period and getting and past issues like initially saying that the public didn't need masks ,(apparently because they new their was not a big enough supply,) and later prematurely lifting the mask mandates etc have left ignoring what comes out of thst organization.

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