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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by tarsinge on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:55AM (#27151532)
I’m not American but reason to not blindly trust the institutions you list to act in your best interest are unfortunately factual. What comes to my mind when I hear:

- FBI: Hoover

- NSA: Snowden

- Police: Floyd

For the CDC I know only of the recommendation to not wear a mask at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s debatable if it was a lie given the knowledge at the time (many other health agencies did the same recommendation in other countries at the time).

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Re:Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most pla... by loveistheanswer on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:36PM (#27159967)
The CDC has a history of performing racist medical experiments on unwitting black people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

The CDC (like the US police and military) also does not keep track of the number of people doctors kill. A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins estimates that iatrogenesis (deaths caused by doctors) kills 250,000 people per year, making it the third leading cause of death in the US.

>"The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates."

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...

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