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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

“SOCIAL DISTANCE” SHAM

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

For the past year, everyone in the world has been forced to stand 6 feet apart in public, based off of CDC recommendations. But now, the health agency is admitting there was no science backing that decision, and have now changed their “social distancing” guidelines.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Looking at these next headlines, I guess you could say better late than never.

0:04.6

This is the CDC.

0:06.6

The CDC is changing some of the recommendations.

0:08.7

So CDC says schools can now space students three feet apart rather than six.

0:14.6

We go over to the Wall Street Journal.

0:16.6

This is Scott Gottlieb.

0:17.6

He has a little bit of a cottage industry here as a commentator now after he left the FDA.

0:22.4

He says, where's the science behind CDC's six foot social distance decree?

0:27.2

He writes, well, I have a clip in a minute a second, but he writes the six foot directive

0:30.9

might have been the single costliest measure CDC has recommended, which has been largely

0:35.1

followed over the past year.

0:36.7

So what science went into the making and more important, sustaining the recommendation?

0:41.0

Nobody knows for sure.

0:42.5

Most agree the guideline derives.

0:44.3

Most believe the guideline derives from a belief that COVID has largely spread through

0:48.2

respiratory droplets like flu.

0:52.2

We actually covered this data in way.

0:53.8

I mean, this is something again, you know, when I think about, you know, the high wire,

0:58.9

we're really, we sit in these meetings with some of the most painful, I told you so's

1:04.5

of all time.

1:05.5

I'm going to get into even sort of more serious ones coming up in this show.

1:10.6

But here was me talking about what we found or the only discussion of an origin to the

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