@luckytran damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Weaken guidelines people will use it to justify inaction. Tighten/keep the guidelines and people will ignore it as an overreaction, especially every time the emergency doesn’t “feel” to live up to the set standards.
@luckytran It's pathetic because they don't apply the same logic elsewhere.
The CDC says: "Refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours of when the food was prepared... Eat leftovers within 3 to 4 days. Throw them out after that time."
When eating out & bringing home leftovers, people frequently don't get home within 2 hours of being served & many will eat leftovers >4 days later. I don't see them rushing to change those guidelines to "meet people where they are." 🤷🏻♀️🙄
@luckytran Center for Disease Copying and Promotion?
I lost faith in their messaging when they were arguing against airborne spread in the beginning and they've done nothing to earn that trust back since.
The medical practice we get boosters in, already in another country (Germany) because this one has given up, is able to justify and partially protect itself giving new boosters off-label by saying "our government hasn't decided to recommend this yet, but we're following the advice of the American CDC and offering them to everyone until they do".
America is really determined to give up any moral currency it has at all.
@luckytran Plus many people weren't following the guidance because it wasn't well communicated. The whole five days, but day one isn't the day you think it is math never made sense to most people. Would have been much easier if they had just told people to stay home for a week, period.