Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> 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 !
>
> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Just please do likewise as our LORD Jesus & I have done for you,
Michael, and http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15;12)