More mask madness from the CDC

“…Just over a week ago, the Centers for Disease Control advised that vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks. On Tuesday, it reversed that, recommending that all staff and K-12ers mask up, regardless of vax status. It also switched to saying indoor-mask mandates make sense, at least in areas experiencing spikes in cases.

This is nonsense — and pernicious, too: The vax-hesitant lose a big reason to get jabbed if the shot doesn’t let them breathe freely. Indeed, such reversals also undermine the CDC’s entire claim to be making calls purely on the science.

Especially since the science is clear: Kids under 12 clearly don’t much get or transmit COVID, and ones over 12 can get jabbed — as can all but a tiny handful of adults who work in schools.

The CDC cites the Delta variant, which seems more able to give (mild) COVID to the jabbed, as reason for its reversal. But that looks more like political/bureaucratic panic than science: Delta-saturated England has now seen seven straight days of declining cases even though it ended its main restrictions more than a week ago…”