These are a couple posts I came up with in a quick search, so not necessarily the best examples:
Covid 9/23: There Is a War
“The FDA, having observed and accepted conclusive evidence that booster shots are highly effective, has rejected allowing people to get those booster shots unless they are over the age of 65, are immunocompromised or high risk, or are willing to lie on a form. The CDC will probably concur. I think we all know what this means. It means war! …”
Covid 11/18: Paxlovid Remains Illegal
“It seems to continue to be the official position that:
Paxlovid is safe and effective.
Paxlovid has proven this sufficiently that it isn’t ‘ethical’ to continue running a clinical trial on it.
Paxlovid will be approved by the FDA in December.
Until then, Paxlovid must remain illegal.
[...]
Washington Examiner points out the obvious, that the FDA is killing thousands of people by delaying Pfizer’s and Merck’s Covid treatments. It’s good to state simple things simply:“So, set Merck aside for now and consider Pfizer’s Paxlovid. In the past 30 days, more than 37,000 people died of COVID in the United States, according to the CDC . Over the next 35 days, Paxlovid could prevent tens of thousands of avoidable deaths. But instead, the FDA won’t immediately let Pfizer sell a drug it knows to be lifesaving. ”...”
Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (SSC post written when CDC was still telling people not to wear masks)
So if studies generally suggest masks are effective, and the CDC wasn’t deliberately lying to us, why are they recommending against mask use? …[He goes on to give some possible reasons.]
Covid 8/27: The Fall of the CDC
“An attempt at a “good faith” interpretation of the new testing guidelines, that you ‘do not necessarily need a test’ even if you have been within 6 feet of a known positive for fifteen minutes, is that the CDC is lying. That they are doing the exact same thing with testing that was previously done with masks. …”
CDC Changes Isolation Guidelines
Here was the CDC’s explicit reasoning on not requiring a test, quote from the Washington Post article:
“Walensky said the agency decided not to require a negative test result after people had isolated for five days because the results are often inaccurateat that point in an infection. PCR tests — those typically performed in a lab which are around 98 percent effective — can show positive results long after a person is no longer infectious because of the presence of viral remnants,she said. It remains unclear how well rapid, at-home tests determine someone’s ability to transmit the virus in the latter part of their infection, she added.”
This is standard government thinking. We can’t use PCR for the sensible reason that it will stay positive long after infectiousness. We can’t use rapid tests because we don’t know how accurate they are in this particular situation, so instead we’re going to (1) not run experiments to find out, experiments remain illegal and (2) instead not run any tests at all, which is known to be about 50% accurate. I call heads.
ETA: https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1463748021011681285
“The US CDC in an article updated in October 2021 is still telling people not to wear N95 masks, even though they are in abundant supply and vastly more effective than the cloth masks they seemingly recommend.
Absolutely disgraceful: https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html″
Oooo thanks for this, just used it to write a post for my blog and it was more fun and easier than usual: My Anxiety Keeps Persisting Even Though It Has Been Diagnosed, Rude