CDC’s New Outdoor Mask Guidance Is a Joke

Source: National Review.

When pandemic hysteria first began, I posted a link here in the Forum to the CDC’s dedicated Covid-19 information page. Not long after that, CDC botched the roll-out of its diagnostic assay, disrupting early case incidence reporting. Months later CDC published new guidelines for cause-of-death reporting that made fatality statistics dubious in some ways. Early in the pandemic response, CDC recommended against wearing face masks, now it is recommending that even vaccinated people wear them outdoors.

I regret my early endorsement of the CDC as a source of reliable public health information. I get it that mistakes happen, but the CDC doesn’t seem to make understandable mistakes in a context of scientific norms. Some other factor (politics?) appears to be driving the show.

The Bulwark: Morning Shots

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-crazy-is-metastasizing?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjU3MjQxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MzU2NDA3NjUsIl8iOiIwVERCMSIsImlhdCI6MTYxOTU0MDEzNywiZXhwIjoxNjE5NTQzNzM3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODcyNzIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.NNZJBC5SuN9yDBQUo2vIZopS0WzLQqb_CdrtpxXRUfM&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

Charlie Sykes column this morning is a great read for those open minded enough to think so. For those not so inclined, read it anyway and maybe (though not likely), you will find something to bemoan.

Topics include: The AZ GOP recount (Addressed in another post)

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The Ignorant World and What to Do About It

Source: American Institute for Economic Research.

Take the Gapminder Test.

The first link above sets up the second. Most of us (I include myself) are embarrassingly ignorant about statistics. This is understandable in a way. Statistics as a discipline is difficult and arcane. But this is not understandable in a way, too.

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Arizona recount held in secret with no witnesses.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/550314-company-asks-to-keep-procedures-for-arizona-county-recount-secret

For the 2020 election the Trump campaign complained that their observers were not allowed to breathe on the counters and had to move back a few feet. Or that windows were blocked from street view. Or ballot boxes looked like suitcases. Or a water leak was caught voting for mermaid rights.

So now they are counting 2 1/2 million ballots in secret with a company saying they have trade secrets to protect. Any discerning human knows that the AZ GOP will cheat if they disallow any witnesses or the media.

The Big Lie has the Republican Party by what is left of their spine in a jar on a shelf at Mar a Lago. And it is trying so hard to scam Americans.