A Medical Myth

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed their standards for early childhood development.

I have always wondered where medical myths come from, such as the idea that we only use 10% of our brains. We have all had the chance to witness how farcical the lies are.

An article tilted "CDC Quietly Lowers Early Childhood Speech Standards" appeared in The Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian publication with a history of spreading misinformation. According to the article.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly changed their standards for early childhood development, as the effects of pandemic policies on children’s development, from speech to reading to other basics, becomes increasingly more apparent.”

This would seem to be problematic, since doctors have long opposed masks and other measures to protect children from the virus based on fantasized harms. I wonder why the CDC thinks children are not meeting their development goals.

A gun?

Have these doctors found their smoking gun?

Not at all.

The guidelines were changed based on a broad literature search, which was discovered by doctors such as Dr. Dan Freedman who care more about being accurate than their followers. The previous guidelines were 20 years old and needed to be revised. There was nothing quiet about what the CDC did.

The doctors who blamed masks for the revisions in the CDC guidelines were not affected by this. This is 2022, where contrarian doctors boast of their ideas and claim to be literate when their misinformation is exposed.

The CDC guidelines were changed based on pre-pandemic data, but Dr. Marty Makary agreed with a Fox News host who blamed masks for harming kids.

People are hungry for honesty right now, and what we are starting to see is data on just how catastrophic the entire two years of restrictions are on children, who bore the highest burden of restrictions even though they are the absolute lowest risk.

There is a medical myth.

In real time, we see how a medical myth is born.

The myths are spread by lazy or dishonest journalists with an ideological bias.

This noxious feedback loop has been discussed before. In an article written on June 10th, 2021 titled " Think Twice Before Giving the COVID Vax to Healthy Kids", Dr. Makary wrote.

In reviewing the medical literature and news reports, and in talking to pediatricians across the country, I am not aware of a single healthy child in the U.S. who has died of COVID-19 to date.

The myth of healthy children dying of COVID-19 was perpetuated by doctors with large social media presence, as well as by Tucker Carlson, who repeated it. The myth that healthy children don't have a risk from the virus persists.

This latest sad episode, whereemic policies are accused of time-traveling to 2019, is nothing special. It has become quite routine because of the misinformation spread by doctors who will never treat a sick child. It is easy to shrug when doctors at prestigious universities create and spread easily refutable myths to their large audiences.

We should resist this dulling of our senses. We should try to retain our ability to be shocked and upset at doctors who tell the truth about the COVID landscape, while exaggerating the harms of the measures used to protect children, all while pretending that no one but them is telling the truth.