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IMPORTANT The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline "Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year @evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

What this means is that the level of SARS-CoV-2 virus circulating in the environment will be reported as the difference between current readings & the readings of a year ago If January of 2024 the reading was 1,000 and in January 2025 it's also 1,000, wastewater levels will be reported as 0 (zero)

It is difficult to fathom just how cynical this is It's a bureaucratic admission that not only do we need to live with a constant and very high amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus around us but that this constant and very high amount will represent "normal."

Gregory, we absolutely do not "need to live with a constant and very high amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus around us." We are being forced to do so by government inaction and societal eugenics. I take it from your mask profile pic that you don't believe this is moral, but this part of 🧵 reads as opposite.

That makes absolutely no sense, unless you believe the eugenicist bs that there's no way to control spread of SARS-CoV-2, so there's no reason to try.

I don't believe there's no way to control the transmission of infectious pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 Or, without the negatives: I believe there are ways to control transmission of infectious pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2

Then why the opacity? You said that we need to live with a high level of the virus. Why?