On August 11, 2022 the CDC announce a new relaxed COVID-19 pandemic guidance, even though “COVID-19 remains an ongoing public health threat”, a carefully worded reversal. After 2 1/2 years, now putting the onus on individuals to limit the spread, rather than schools, industry and work place. [1, 2, 3] Right at this time lawsuits are happening in the background. Coincidence?
CDC spokesperson Greta Massetti stated “this guidance…helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives.”
“The agency’s focus now is on highly vulnerable populations and how to protect them — not on the vast majority of people who at this point have some immunity against the virus and are unlikely to become severely ill.”
- dropped screening or testing for covid in most settings.
- dropped the 6 foot social distancing standard
- abolished the quarantine rule for unvaccinated people
“[H]igh levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of medical and nonpharmaceutical interventions have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.” No difference beween vaccinated and unvaccinated.
In plain terms announcement effectively means: “everyone can pretty much go back to normal. Focus on illness that is medically significant. Stop worrying about positive cases because nothing is going to stop them. Think about the bigger picture of overall social health. End the compulsion.”
“So finally, nearly two years later the CDC has embraced the Great Barrington Declaration“ which was released October 4, 2020.