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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:

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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)

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