The CDC director herself was saying back in April that vaccinated people don't spread the virus.
> “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus — they don’t get sick,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday. That’s “not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”
Walking back statements because they're untrue/unverified/exaggerated/unqualified shouldn't necessarily remove your credibility. But doubling down on falsehoods definitely should.
Science is the pursuit of knowledge and we can always conduct a new experiment that reveals inaccuracies or invalid conclusions from yesterday's experiment.
There has been an apparent turn in the present culture-war-type rhetoric to distrusting people because they admit their mistakes, but somehow heaping more praise on those who double down on their falsehoods. Really curious how that comes about.
The CDC explained that we didn’t know if people could be contagious after being vaccinated. Not sure where this stands.
Now most people who want the vaccine will soon have it but it looks like lots of holdouts.
So, now we have a carrot and stick. No mask required and people are now on their own if they choose to skip it