Thanks to a couple of inspiring “coincidences”.
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Earlier this week, I was gifted the best-seller “Breath”. I finishing reading it yesterday.
The book’s central premise:
The way we breath is important to our health … and 90% of us breathe incorrectly, causing or aggravating a laundry list of chronic diseases.
The author provides the research support for several attitudes and techniques for better breathing … and better health.
Not surprising, wearing masks wasn’t on his list of remedies for bad breathing.
I was struck by the irony: Wearing masks for a year may have sheltered us from covid … but, may have also created a stockpile of unintended future heath problems.
Oh my.
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Then came the big announcement.
The nation’s chief political-scientists had an overnight epiphany regarding masks and advised: fuhgettaboutit.
Literally overnight, “the science” spun on a dime.
No more masking for eternity.
No more double or triple masking.
The new “guidance”: stow your masks … but don’t toss them in case the political landscape shifts, and our politically-sensitive scientists change their minds.
I like the long overdue direction, but it’s a head-scratcher.
There was no scientific evidence provided that we hadn’t known for weeks (or months).
So what motivated the change?
The obvious: A variant of the old “wag the dog” technique.
Given a crisis on the southern border, a labor force getting paid to stay home, a heating up of inflation, a hijacked gas pipeline, and a Middle East that’s on fire … maybe Team Biden just wanted to re-focus the spotlight.
Or, maybe I’m just being cynical…
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