Call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but here’s a quote from today’s The Washington Post. True, the article focuses on the CDCP retracting its previous advice on school closures, and likewise true Richard E. Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, could be offering his personal opinion. But nevertheless, Besser’s quote is very, very curious:
When you hear of the difficulties involved — of children dropped at libraries because there’s nowhere for home care, of people who could lose their job because they don’t have sick leave — these factors are really real, and we need to really feel that the public health benefit of that makes it warranted.
It remains to be seen where this will go, if it goes anywhere. But with every crisis being seen as an opportunity. . .
