I hope the CDC does do some overhauls. Their guidance and infographics and pictures and press were a perfect storm of self-contradictory confusion. It was like they wanted to send you on a link-chase through a website from hell just to figure out that everyone should be masking. And everyone else glanced at it and said "Covid is over now". It put me in a bad position as an immunocompromised person, and made things in my family much more difficult. The press put all this stuff about how it's just up to us to assess what risk we are comfortable with living with and offered no support, no firm guidance, no tools to stand up against the battle we face. They seemed to even take the side if the majority with all the "we will meet people where they are at" nonsense. They didn't meet me where I am as a vulnerable disabled single mother and sole caretaker if a school-aged child (I homeschool thank goodness). But still, we want to be social and this made us look like .. like that was unreasonable because we are all safe now and vaxxed if we want to be. Just utterly false. No mention of long-covid. Totally gaslit it by saying they are preventing "medically significant" illness. I am going to just say they set us back and caused damage that I am not sure is reparable.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me, Shea. Provides perspective on what is missing from the newsletter I'm still developing which is how CDC guideline updates impacts single parents who are immunocompromised. Right now it's just me on a zero budget trying to stay informed, grow an online community, keep up with resources Substack makes available and eventually cobble together more production resources. I take feedback from people in this underserved community very seriously and will keep your perspective in mind moving forward
Aug 22, 2022·edited Aug 22, 2022Liked by Susanna Speier
I love the newsletter and I think you are doing great with it. I know what you have here is objective, which I understand and respect that a lot. As a news source that is a good thing to be. I wrote in the comments, not as any criticism of the article, but just to add in a subjective reflection on the discussion of the CDC. It is probably too fiery and subjective for a news article, but good for the comment section. So no worries on doing anything different on your part. I did however recently discover the World Health Network as a CDC-alternative. You might be interested, they are at https://www.worldhealthnetwork.global/
I hope the CDC does do some overhauls. Their guidance and infographics and pictures and press were a perfect storm of self-contradictory confusion. It was like they wanted to send you on a link-chase through a website from hell just to figure out that everyone should be masking. And everyone else glanced at it and said "Covid is over now". It put me in a bad position as an immunocompromised person, and made things in my family much more difficult. The press put all this stuff about how it's just up to us to assess what risk we are comfortable with living with and offered no support, no firm guidance, no tools to stand up against the battle we face. They seemed to even take the side if the majority with all the "we will meet people where they are at" nonsense. They didn't meet me where I am as a vulnerable disabled single mother and sole caretaker if a school-aged child (I homeschool thank goodness). But still, we want to be social and this made us look like .. like that was unreasonable because we are all safe now and vaxxed if we want to be. Just utterly false. No mention of long-covid. Totally gaslit it by saying they are preventing "medically significant" illness. I am going to just say they set us back and caused damage that I am not sure is reparable.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me, Shea. Provides perspective on what is missing from the newsletter I'm still developing which is how CDC guideline updates impacts single parents who are immunocompromised. Right now it's just me on a zero budget trying to stay informed, grow an online community, keep up with resources Substack makes available and eventually cobble together more production resources. I take feedback from people in this underserved community very seriously and will keep your perspective in mind moving forward
I love the newsletter and I think you are doing great with it. I know what you have here is objective, which I understand and respect that a lot. As a news source that is a good thing to be. I wrote in the comments, not as any criticism of the article, but just to add in a subjective reflection on the discussion of the CDC. It is probably too fiery and subjective for a news article, but good for the comment section. So no worries on doing anything different on your part. I did however recently discover the World Health Network as a CDC-alternative. You might be interested, they are at https://www.worldhealthnetwork.global/