LISTEN TO THE GODLIKE VOICE OF SCIENCE!!! Rochelle Walensky Said an Antigen Test Is a Good Tool for ‘Judging Infectiousness.’ Now She Says ‘Its Information Will Not Be Useful.’

Tufekci sees a parallel between the CDC’s current attitude toward antigen tests and its early resistance to masking as a safeguard against virus transmission. While public health officials initially said there was not enough evidence to support general use of face masks, it became clear that their real concern was the shortage of high-quality masks, which they thought should be reserved for health care workers. In this case, the U.S. is facing a government-engineered shortage of rapid antigen tests. Instead of forthrightly noting that reality, the CDC is rationalizing its testing advice by arguing that the tests are not really all that useful, even as it implicitly acknowledges that they are.

Walensky’s handling of this issue is of a piece with the CDC’s prior misrepresentations of COVID-19 science, which often seem motivated by a desire to defend whatever position the agency is taking at the moment. . . . None of this inspires confidence in an agency that Americans should be able to trust during a pandemic.

It’s clowns all the way down, all shrieking “Follow the science!”