Once again changing their stance, now the media’s top scientists are casting doubt on the widely held belief that small gatherings are a driving force on COVID transmission, which puts a new spotlight on elected officials and their recent restrictions on gatherings for Thanksgiving.
Facts Don’t Matter
Commenting on the unscientific nature of the limits on the size of gatherings politicians invent, Julia Marcus, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard University, told The New York Times, “Somebody says something and somebody else says it, and then it just becomes the truth… I worry about this narrative that doesn’t seem to be data-based.”
Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University’s School of Public Health, told NPR that small gatherings can be dangerous but should not be considered a main culprit in the disease’s spread.
The Times reported it is inherently hard to quantify the numbers of those who are infected in small gatherings inside homes, but data suggests long-term care facilities, prisons, and restaurants are the most dangerous hot spots.
As we have long reported, and now the Times has noted, guidelines in states that allow indoor church services of up to 50 people and then ban households from allowing members of another household inside seems to some to be arbitrary.
The paper pointed out that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz banned people from different households from meeting both indoors and outdoors, even though the outdoor transmission rate is considered extremely low.
“If you’re an average person looking at what’s allowed and what’s not allowed, it may not make a lot of sense,” Ashleigh Tuite, an infectious disease modeler at the University of Toronto, told the paper. “I can get together with nine of my best friends and sit around a table at a restaurant. So why can’t I do that in my house?”
TRENDPOST: Despite the facts that the draconian rules and regulations being imposed lack scientific data to support the mandates, the vast majority of the population live in constant virus fear. The mainstream media keeps selling it, and government authorities, businesses, and industries keep making up “must obey even if they’re useless” COVID dictates.
