More Confusing Guidance From The CDC

That’s how far we are supposed to stay away from one another during the coronavirus.

But as more schools are reopening to more students, the CDC has come up with new guidelines for them. After all, how do you keep children six feet from one another in a school?

So the new suggestion from the CDC is that students be kept three feet apart.

That may cause some people to question why the rest of us should stay six feet apart. Does the virus act differently in school than in other environments?

It’s not that children can’t be contagious. While data suggest that children are less likely to get sick from COVID, a new study in Virginia found that there was an increase in the number of children with the antibodies.

Conflicting pandemic guidelines can also be baffling. For example, occupancy rules vary from state-to-state, as do hours of operation and mask regulations.

None of this, of course, is an exact science. Public health and other medical professionals are constantly reassessing and they aren’t always in agreement with one another.

Although we have seen recent cases of sometimes violent non-compliance with pandemic guidelines, regulations and laws, Americans for the most part seem to be taking this pandemic seriously and are at…