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.
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.