The CDC’s updated recommendations on COVID have sparked a whole new kind of protest as some remained unprepared to move beyond lockdowns.
Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered up their latest take on responding to COVID-19 with a downgrade many considered four years late. However, as the so-called experts lumped the virus with other common respiratory illnesses like influenza, a community of “long COVID” sufferers are ready to march “in solidarity” in favor of stricter measures.
Calling themselves LC/DC, organizers announced a planned protest in Washington, D.C. for March 15 claiming, “The CDC wants to sweep COVID and Long Covid under the rug.”
“They want to make public places less accessible so disabled people aren’t seen,” read a notice of the march. “They want to normalize re-infection in order to protect corporate interests.”
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— LC/DC (Awareness Day ’24) (@LCDCmarch15) March 2, 2024
Paul Hennessy, an organizer of the march, told Fox News Digital, “LC/DC is fighting to raise awareness about long COVID, and we recognize that reducing the isolation policy will result in more infections, long-term illnesses and disability.”
“Our main objection is that it’s not based on a period of infectiousness, but false assumptions,” he said. “The CDC has admitted that COVID can be contagious for over 10 days.”
CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen had said of the announced recommendations that did away with five-day isolation, already considerably trimmed from two weeks, “Today’s announcement reflects the progress we have made in protecting against severe illness from COVID-10. However, we still must use the commonsense solutions we know work to protect ourselves and others from serious illness from respiratory viruses–this includes vaccination, treatment, and staying home when we get sick.”
For those who say they’ve suffered lasting symptoms including coughs and brain fog from infection from the vaguely defined “Long COVID,” described by the Department of Health and Human Services as potentially “present with a relapsing-remitting pattern and progression or worsening over time, with the possibility of severe and life-threatening events even months or years after infection,” the CDC had missed the mark.
“The CDC’s job should not be to negotiate with a deadly airborne pathogen, but to give the best proper guidance,” said Hennessy as the group sought recommendations of a 10-day isolation and two negative tests before returning to normal activities calling it “best for the health of society.”
“It’s not lost on us that the CDC has made this decision during an election year,” he argued. “We’re not sure if this decision is political, but we do know from our research and standpoint that this was done arbitrarily and is more ground in connivance than fact.”
LC/DC’s suggestion that political science was more responsible in guiding recommendations found merit in a revelation from Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel.
Having spoken with Cohen a day prior to the announcement, the clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center told Fox News Digital “The goal is to have one set of guidelines for all respiratory viruses — flu, RSV, COVID, etc.”
Such a move would open the door for a return to stricter recommendations in the future based on any uptick in respiratory virus cases, not just the novel ones.
Still, one person summed up the unexpected protest planned at the Lincoln Memorial by saying, “Let me get this straight…people who are afraid of being around other people due to Covid will protest IN PERSON in DC over CDC guidelines. How does this make any sense?”
Let me get this straight…people who are afraid of being around other people due to Covid will protest IN PERSON in DC over CDC guidelines. How does this make any sense?
— NanaBanana – #DeSantisConservative (@EmJHarris2) March 4, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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