U.S. War on Science
As of June 25, 2021, only 45 percent of Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, which leaves over 150 million people, including all children, unprotected. As of May 25, 2021, the risk of infection for the unvaccinated is high to extremely high across most of the country.1
To reduce viral spread and diseases, the science of public health demands isolation, quarantine, social distancing, masking and avoiding nonessential travel. Tragically this science is being thrown to the wind by the politicians. As reported in the New York Times, June 1, 2021, “…the nation is opening back up…” and the public health restriction are being abandoned leaving over 150 million Americans at increased risk for disease. As the pandemic rages out of control around the world, creating more contagious variants, and before 70 -90 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, Americans are being encouraged to “return to normal.” Lifting public health restriction while vaccines are being delivered puts millions at risk. This social policy decision will result in tens of thousands more preventable, infections, illness and deaths.2
Such governmental policy has been described by the British Medical Journal as “social murder.”3
Those responsible must be held accountable.
1 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
2 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2780539