Everything about COVID is hard to understand from a health policy perspective. Motivated reasoning is everywhere. See this: the CDC was a beacon of technocrati

Everything about COVID is hard to understand from a health policy perspective. Motivated reasoning is everywhere. See this: the CDC was a beacon of technocratic science right up until it stopped arguing for mass government action, now suddenly it's politically motivated. Maybe, but you'd have to demonstrate that with some evidence. Here's an easy demonstration of the opposite: scientists were in agreement that masks were of no use, right up until political lobbying caused a total reversal of position as confirmed by the BBC [1]. Yet on HN we can read all the time that the new consensus is totally scientific, and it was the previous position that was unscientific. Lockdowns weren't recommended by the WHO or CDC, right up until they suddenly became the only responsible scientific thing to do. There's a clear pattern here - when an agency is recommending massive government action, a certain segment of the population praises them as 'scientific'. When an agency says maybe there's less for governments to do, they are damned as political and partisan. It's quite obviously ideological reasoning. Mass testing has to end at some point. That means at some point the CDC has to make such a recommendation. Or do you believe it should never end? [1] https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1282987860090593280 https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1282987860090593280