Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1d6qawr/in_the_pandemic_we_were_told_to_keep_6_feet_apart/
>>>
>>> In the pandemic, we were told to keep 6 feet apart. There’s no science
>>> to support that.
>>> In a congressional appearance, infectious-disease expert Anthony S.
>>> Fauci characterized the recommendation as “an empiric decision that
>>> wasn’t based on data.”
>>>
>>> By Dan Diamond
>>> June 2, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
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>>> The nation’s top mental health official had spent months asking for
>>> evidence behind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s social
>>> distancing guidelines, warning that keeping Americans physically apart
>>> during the coronavirus pandemic would harm patients, businesses, and
>>> overall health and wellness.
>>> Now, Elinore McCance-Katz, the Trump administration’s assistant
>>> secretary for mental health and substance use, was urging the CDC to
>>> justify its recommendation that Americans stay six feet apart to avoid
>>> contracting covid-19 — or get rid of it.
>>> “I very much hope that CDC will revisit this decision or at least tell
>>> us that there is more and stronger data to support this rule than what I
>>> have been able to find online,” McCance-Katz wrote in a June 2020 memo
>>> submitted to the CDC and other health agency leaders and obtained by The
>>> Washington Post. “If not, they should pull it back.”
>>> The CDC would keep its six-foot social distance recommendation in place
>>> until August 2022, with some modifications as Americans got vaccinated
>>> against the virus and officials pushed to reopen schools. Now,
>>> congressional investigators are set Monday to press Anthony S. Fauci,
>>> the infectious-disease doctor who served as a key coronavirus adviser
>>> during the Trump and Biden administrations, on why the CDC’s
>>> recommendation was allowed to shape so much of American life for so
>>> long, particularly given Fauci and other officials’ recent
>>> acknowledgments that there was little science behind the six-foot rule
>>> after all.
>>>
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>>> “It sort of just appeared, that six feet is going to be the distance,”
>>> Fauci testified to Congress in a January closed-door hearing, according
>>> to a transcribed interview released Friday. Fauci characterized the
>>> recommendation as “an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.”
>>> Francis S. Collins, former director of the National Institutes of
>>> Health, also privately testified to Congress in January that he was not
>>> aware of evidence behind the social distancing recommendation, according
>>> to a transcript released in May.
>>> Four years later, visible reminders of the six-foot rule remain with us,
>>> particularly in cities that rushed to adopt the CDC’s guidelines hoping
>>> to protect residents and keep businesses open. D.C. is dotted with signs
>>> in stores and schools — even on sidewalks or in government buildings —
>>> urging people to stand six feet apart.
>>> Experts agree that social distancing saved lives, particularly early in
>>> the pandemic when Americans had no protections against a novel virus
>>> sickening millions of people. One recent paper published by the
>>> Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank, concludes that behavior
>>> changes to avoid developing covid-19, followed later by vaccinations,
>>> prevented about 800,000 deaths. But that achievement came at enormous
>>> cost, the authors added, with inflexible strategies that weren’t driven
>>> by evidence.
>>> “We never did the study about what works,” said Andrew Atkeson, a UCLA
>>> economist and co-author of the paper, lamenting the lack of evidence
>>> around the six-foot rule. He warned that persistent frustrations over
>>> social distancing and other measures might lead Americans to ignore
>>> public health advice during the next crisis.
>>> The U.S. distancing measure was particularly stringent, as other
>>> countries adopted shorter distances; the World Health Organization set a
>>> distance of one meter, or slightly more than three feet, which experts
>>> concluded was roughly as effective as the six-foot mark at deterring
>>> infections, and would have allowed schools to reopen more rapidly.
>>> The six-foot rule was “probably the single most costly intervention the
>>> CDC recommended that was consistently applied throughout the pandemic,”
>>> Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, wrote
>>> in his book about the pandemic, “Uncontrolled Spread.”
>>> It’s still not clear who at the CDC settled on the six-foot distance;
>>> the agency has repeatedly declined to specify the authors of the
>>> guidance, which resembled its recommendations on how to avoid
>>> contracting the flu. A CDC spokesperson credited a team of experts, who
>>> drew from research such as a 1955 study on respiratory droplets. In his
>>> book, Gottlieb wrote that the Trump White House pushed back on the CDC’s
>>> initial recommendation of 10 feet of social distance, saying it would be
>>> too difficult to implement.
>>> Perhaps the rule’s biggest impact was on children, despite ample
>>> evidence they were at relatively low risk of covid-related
>>> complications. Many schools were unable to accommodate six feet of space
>>> between students’ desks and forced to rely on virtual education for more
>>> than a year, said Joseph Allen, a Harvard University expert in
>>> environmental health, who called in 2020 for schools to adopt three feet
>>> of social distance.
>>> “The six-foot rule was really an error that had been propagated for
>>> several decades, based on a misunderstanding of how particles traveled
>>> through indoor spaces,” Allen said, adding that health experts often
>>> wrongly focused on avoiding droplets from infected people rather than
>>> improving ventilation and filtration inside buildings.
>>> Social distancing had champions before the pandemic. Bush administration
>>> officials, working on plans to fight bioterrorism, concluded that social
>>> distancing could save lives in a health crisis and renewed their calls
>>> as the coronavirus approached. The idea also took hold when public
>>> health experts initially believed that the coronavirus was often
>>> transmitted by droplets expelled by infected people, which could land
>>> several feet away; the CDC later acknowledged the virus was airborne and
>>> people could be exposed just by sharing the same air in a room, even if
>>> they were farther than six feet apart.
>>> “There was no magic around six feet,” Robert R. Redfield, who served as
>>> CDC director during the Trump administration, told a congressional
>>> committee in March 2022. “It’s just historically that’s what was used
>>> for other respiratory pathogens. So that really became the first piece”
>>> of a strategy to protect Americans in the early days of the virus, he said.
>>> It also became the standard that states and businesses adopted, with
>>> swift pressure on holdouts. Lawmakers and workers urged meat processing
>>> plants, delivery companies and other essential businesses to adopt the
>>> CDC’s social distancing recommendations as their employees continued
>>> reporting to work during the pandemic.
>>> Some business leaders weren’t sure the measures made sense. Jeff Bezos,
>>> founder of online retail giant Amazon, petitioned the White House in
>>> March 2020 to consider revising the six-foot recommendation, said Adam
>>> Boehler, then a senior Trump administration official helping with the
>>> coronavirus response. At the time, Amazon was facing questions about a
>>> rising number of infections in its warehouses, and Democratic senators
>>> were urging the company to adopt social distancing.
>>> “Bezos called me and asked, is there any real science behind this rule?”
>>> Boehler said, adding that Bezos pushed on whether Amazon could adopt an
>>> alternative distance if workers were masked, physically separated by
>>> dividers or other precautions were taken. “He said … it’s the backbone
>>> of trying to keep America running here, and when you separate somebody
>>> five feet versus six feet, it’s a big difference,” Boehler recalled.
>>> Bezos owns The Washington Post.
>>> Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, confirmed that Bezos called
>>> Boehler and said the Amazon founder’s focus was the discrepancy between
>>> the U.S. recommendation and the WHO’s shorter distance. The company soon
>>> said it would follow the CDC’s six-foot social distancing guidelines in
>>> its warehouses and later developed technologies to try to enforce those
>>> guidelines. “We did it globally everywhere because it was the right
>>> thing to do,” Nantel said.
>>> Boehler said he spoke with Redfield and Fauci about testing alternatives
>>> to the six-foot recommendation but that he was not aware of what
>>> happened to those tests or what they found. Fauci declined to comment.
>>> Redfield did not respond to requests for comment.
>>> But challenging the six-foot recommendation, particularly in the
>>> pandemic’s early days, was seen as politically difficult. Rochelle
>>> Walensky, then chief of infectious disease at Massachusetts General
>>> Hospital, argued in a July 2020 email that “if people are masked it is
>>> quite safe and much more practical to be at 3 feet” in many school settings.
>>> Five months later, incoming president Joe Biden would tap Walensky as
>>> his CDC director. Walensky swiftly endorsed the six-foot distance before
>>> working to loosen it, announcing in March 2021 that elementary school
>>> students could sit three feet apart if they were masked. Walensky
>>> declined to comment.
>>> The most persistent government critic of the social distancing
>>> guidelines may have been McCance-Katz, who did not respond to requests
>>> for comment for this article. Trump’s mental health chief had spent
>>> several years clashing with other Department of Health and Human
>>> Services officials on various matters and had few internal defenders by
>>> the time the pandemic arrived, hampering her message. But while her
>>> pleas failed to move the CDC, her warnings about the risks to mental
>>> health found an audience with Trump and his allies, who blamed federal
>>> bureaucrats for the six-foot rule and other measures.
>>> “What is this nonsense that somehow it’s unsafe to return to school?”
>>> McCance-Katz said in September 2020 on an HHS podcast, lamenting the
>>> broader shutdown of American life. “I do think that Americans are smart
>>> people, and I think that they need to start asking questions about why
>>> is it this way.”
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !