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My point is that last year, the party line was "the CDC is above questioning."
> If information later comes out that this risk-reducing thing wasn't useful, then you stop doing it; you haven't lost anything by trying it.
Pretty much every COVID mitigation has some negative effect, so I don't think "you haven't lost anything" is accurate.
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My point is that last year, the party line was "the CDC is above questioning."
> If information later comes out that this risk-reducing thing wasn't useful, then you stop doing it; you haven't lost anything by trying it.
Pretty much every COVID mitigation has some negative effect, so I don't think "you haven't lost anything" is accurate.