Posted December 3, 2020
A CDC document titled Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings that was published in July 2020 discusses the “shielding approach” to quarantine “high risk” individuals that includes older adults and and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Innocent people who and symptom-free could be ripped away from their families and loved ones, put on lockdown, and lose their freedom. The CDC admits that the effectiveness of preventing infection using the shielding approach, a euphemism for strict, mass quarantines, has never been documented. Read more.