The CDC floated the idea in WaPo, and to state health officials, of removing the guidelines workers and doctors rely upon, that allow people to recover and safely isolate themselves with C-19 to protect others. Without this guideline, as a government watchdog group has explained in a press release, it will “signal to healthcare providers that a serious approach is not needed, though all the evidence shows that it is dangerous” and will “put the entire burden on the average worker to find a way to negotiate sick time to recover and try to not infect other people” - and so it will exacerbate further outbreaks, and will especially be a threat to high risk elderly and disabled.
This appears to be another case of catering to business interests like the CDC caving to Delta Airlines in 2021 on isolation guidelines, and buckling to a fringe but loud minority of right-wing science deniers who have been misled by politicized disinformation and in some shocking cases have made innuendo that there should be violence in opposition to public health measures. President Biden campaigned in 2020 on stopping the spread, and we believe he has a mandate to steer public health back in that direction, not continuing toward the kind of total "let it rip" promotion of disease spread pushed by the Trump administration.
We ask that the President of the United States do right by we the people, ensuring the ability of patients and workers to self-isolate and recover when stricken with the respiratory virus that continues to cause so many deaths. We also ask that there be scrutiny of any "burrowed in" Trump appointees that might be steering the CDC toward endangering public safety. We need to at least keep the safety guidelines we have until we figure out what’s going on at the CDC. Ideally, the government ought to be strengthening public health protections.
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