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Per Leana Wen: Red superspreaders bad. Blue superspreaders good. @DrLeanaWen/1512228756664029186
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Three things changed between Nov 21 and Mar 22: Omicron rendered superspreaders more likely, and vaccines less effective (but still usually life-saving), and finally Dems decided they needed a win on COVID before the midterms.
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The administration and CDC's protocol shifts put the third political change over the scientific changes, which pointed in the opposite direction.
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Walensky, Pelosi, Biden, and Psaki are motivated by the same "COVID is over" bravado now that infected (metaphorically and literally) the Trump White House in fall 2020.
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Either way, politicians will risk their own lives and sacrifice those of others for perceived political gain.
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The virus doesn't care about "optics." It just keeps replicating.
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But political apologists like Leana Wen will try to convince us that superspreaders are now a sophisticated personal choice. @DrLeanaWen/1512167872264560654?t=7fGym0RSaEuf7l9f-eni-A&s=19