{"id":10946,"date":"2024-12-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2024-12-03T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:16:01","slug":"house-select-committee-on-coronavirus-releases-report-on-social-distancing-covid-19-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=10946","title":{"rendered":"House Select Committee on Coronavirus Releases Report on Social Distancing, COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elizabeth Weibel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a final report regarding its two-year investigation into social distancing, masking, and the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 520-page report, the committee released<\/a> its findings regarding \u201cthe origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic,\u201d the \u201cEfficacy, Effectiveness, and Transparency of the Use of Taxpayer Funds and Relief Programs\u201d that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic, \u201cthe implementation or effectiveness\u201d of federal laws or regulations that were \u201capplied, enacted, or under consideration\u201d to address the pandemic, as well as \u201cthe development of vaccines and treatments\u201d during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince February 2023, the Select Subcommittee sought to produce a full after-action report to provide a road map of how we, in Congress, the Executive, and the private sector may better prepare for and respond to future pandemics,\u201d Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) wrote in the report. \u201cThroughout this process, the Select Subcommittee sent more than 100 investigative letters, conducted 38 transcribed interviews or depositions, held 25 hearings or meetings, and reviewed more than one million pages of documents from dozens of custodians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the committee\u2019s findings regarding social distancing, it was revealed that \u201cthe six-foot social distancing requirement was not supported by science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSocial distancing was one of the most consequential policies of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d the committee wrote in the report. \u201cSocial distancing is the practice of intentionally maintaining a physical space between yourself and other people. On March 22, 2020, the CDC issued guidance specifically designating six feet, or two arm\u2019s length, as the distance that would best reduce the spread of the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report from the committee noted that during a June 2024 public hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had articulated \u201cthat the six-foot rule for social distancing was not supported by quality scientific standards\u201d and had \u201cattempted to further distance himself from the issue by stating the decision making of this policy implementation was the responsibility of the CDC.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The committee\u2019s report adds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

The justification for one of the most impactful COVID-19 policies, that arguable affected the most Americans in their day-to-day lives, was \u201cit sort of just appeared.\u201d There were no scientific trials or studies conducted before this policy was implemented, there appeared to be no pushback or internal discussion amongst the highest level of leadership, and more importantly there appears to be no acceptance of responsibility. That is an unacceptable aanswer from public health leadership. Decisions of this magnitude must have scientific backing that can be explained to the American public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the usage of masks and mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the report from the committee found that it was \u201capparent\u201d that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) \u201cand the Biden Administration cherry-picked observational data to fit their narrative that masks are fully effective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYet, that is not the role of the CDC,\u201d the report added. \u201cThe CDC is an agency meant to protect the American people, and part of that responsibility includes conducting, sponsoring, or at the very least examining clinical trials to actually have the best available research before formulation its guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report added that \u201cone area\u201d where masking caused harm was with the masking of \u201call students (age two and older), staff, teachers, and visitors to K-12 schools\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Many countries, including the U.K., Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, followed the guidelines of the WHO. The WHO specifically did not recommend masking children aged five or younger because they are at low risk of illness, masks are \u201cnot in the overall interest of the child,\u201d and also because most children that age are not capable of wearing a mask properly or effficiently. The WHO also recommended children aged six through 11 not routinely wear masks because of potential adverse impact to psychological and learning development. The WHO further explicitly advised against children wearing masks during physical activities, such as outside playground time, so as not to impede their breathing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The report also noted that COVID-19 \u201cvaccine mandates were not supported by science and caused more  harm than good\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Although all five of the major federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates are now rescinded, overturned, or otherwise ended, their consequences will live on for years to come. The COVID-19 vaccine mandates caused people to lose their livelihoods, hollowed out our healthcare and education workforces, reduced our military readiness and recruitment, caused vaccine hesitancy, reduced trust in public health, trampled individual freedoms, deepened political divisions, and interered in the patient-physician relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from these severe consequences, the scientific basis of the COVID-19 vaccine mandates was highly questionable. COVID-19 mandates ignored natural immunity, stratification of risk from the virus, risk of adverse events from the vaccine, as well as the fact that the vaccines don\u2019t prevent the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, as the Select Subcommittee has established in previous hearings, federal health officials consistently overstated the power of the vaccines and deepening political divides with statements like \u201cthe pandemic of unvaccinated.\u201d This is yet another example of the Biden Administration\u2019s guidance and policies straying far outside boundaries of the available evidence while proudly proclaiming they were \u201cfollowing the science.\u201d For them, \u201cbecause I told you so\u201d was good enough.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The report added that while \u201cherd immunity is a real concept and occurrence supported by public health leaders\u201d like Fauci, \u201cthere was a coordinated effort from public health officials to ignore natural immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press release from the committee, it was also noted<\/a> that \u201ccontrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Weibel The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a final report regarding its two-year investigation into social distancing, masking, and the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In the 520-page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,162,854,863,951,590,972,973,608,1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdc","category-face-masks","category-leaky-vaccines","category-mandates","category-social-distancing","category-transmission","category-vaccine-enhanced-disease","category-vaccine-failure","category-vaccine-safety","category-vaccine-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10949,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions\/10949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}