Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ It's true that there's a lot we don't know about how covid19 affects the body, but the scientists know plenty about how a contagious respiratory virus is passed from human to human. They learned about preventitive methods during sars and mers and all those others.
What's new is that the CDC used to give out instructions. They used imperatives, without qualification: "Do this."
Now everything has an escape clause attached: "Do this if feasable."

Rachel Maddow makes it clear that the CDC has been neutered, presumably so that those meat packing plants can stay open despite health risks. They can even say they worked within CDC guidelines: " Yeah, we would've done it, but it wasn't feasable, so like CDC said, we left it...."