

What Phang, Osterholm, and their many fellow travelers are really asking is, “Without masks, how will I know who to disrespect?” Evidently, the final transmutation of the virus has been from epidemiological marker to political totem. Or, at least, that’s the answer if one assumes that the fear is medical in nature. The answer to this, of course, is that you can’t know, but, that if you’re vaccinated, it doesn’t matter whether you know, because unvaccinated people can’t hurt you. in a theater, how are you going to know that they’re not just kind of fibbing?”

Michael Osterholm echoed Phang, suggesting that “The next question is going to be, ‘How will we know if someone has been vaccinated?’ If you’re sitting close to someone at a restaurant or. Phang inquired, “how does one tell the difference between a fully vaccinated person and a not vaccinated person?” On Morning Joe, Dr. Almost immediately, a new talking point popped up - this one in the form of a question. After months of incoherence, the federal government had finally arrived at where Florida, Texas, and others had been by March.Īlas, those who had hoped that the long saga might finally be over were swiftly disappointed, for, as we have should have learned by now, COVID abhors a vacuum. In the places where the CDC has long lost its influence – namely, most of the United States of America - it felt like a bad joke. In New York City and Washington D.C., the news may well have felt like a liberation. The CDC’s affirmation was met with celebrations from the journalistic class and the White House, and with laughter from everyone else.
