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the CDC has been a captured entity for years. don’t list to them. follow WHO guidelines instead.
Can someone explain the downvotes this guy is getting and why, please? Thank you.
The “for years” part.
I mean the "face masks don't help stop the spread of Covid" was my exit ramp
…yeah, for years. i’ll say it again.
I mean Trump was elected in 2016 so
Look I am clearly out of the loop here.
Has the CDC not been regulatory captured for years?
Just trying to make sense of this here, I don't know.
yes, it has. these people have not been paying attention lol. the CDC was making bad decisions the first Trump presidency due to political pressure. it literally started there, guys, sorry.
Look since we're involved in this discussion here, can somebody provide sources for either side? I mean I know my hunches, but I kind of try to rely on data, hard as that may be to come by these days.
i mean, do you not remember their decisions 5 years ago? not being snippy just saying you don’t need sources.. you lived it. they abandoned medical reality to force people to go back to work earlier and to stop staying home. no other health organization was saying what they were lol. because they were a captured entity by the Biden administration who forced them to kill us lest the economy suffer.
NO no no no no no, look, I'm 100% not being snippy, I don't know. I suspect, and I expect, a few things to be true, which are only getting more blatantly confirmed by the day, so I actually don't know, I just don't want this place to turn into Reddit, I like to hear shit out on their own merits.
Which, to also be fair, you haven't provided evidence for. I am inclined to agree with you, but I'm too old to base my reality on hunches.
i meant i wasn’t trying to be snippy lol.