How do we know the Democrats are worried about the coming election? They’re bringing back the six-foot rule and mass panic

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updated for 2026

CDC Official Dusts Off Familiar ‘Six Feet’ Playbook Regarding Hantavirus

…. Brendan Jackson, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tossed out the “6 feet” precautions.

“We talking about exposure specifically to bodily fluids. And that could include things like saliva.

So, if you are sharing eating utensils..kissing, touching…those sorts of things.

It can also mean just being really, really close to that person for a fairly long period of time. So, we’re calling that ‘six feet’. At least six feet for a cumulative number of 15 minutes.

CNN and its masters are already hinting that Trump’s to blame, and they’re just warming up.

Since the first sign of an outbreak, the reminders have come from government officials, health agencies and plenty of experts: There’s no reason to worry. Don’t panic. It’s under control.

“We have this under control, and we’re not worried about it,” US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a briefing Monday when asked about the hantavirus outbreak that has moved from cruise ship to quarantine.

“The thing about this one,” President Donald Trump said in the same briefing, “it’s much harder to catch. It’s been around for a long time. People are very familiar with it. I hope it’s fine.”

Trot out the “some experts” trope:

Still, some health experts say that at points, the messaging has been overly confident and too willing to dismiss the possibility of a threat. Statements meant to quell anxiety instead risk undermining trust if they later turn out not to be true.

Dr. David Berger, an Australian physician who is a former ship’s doctor for the same operator as the MV Hondius, asserts that assurances of a low risk to the general public are “calm mongering.”

“Well, maybe they are, but you’ve got a condition with an incubation period that appears to be up to six to eight weeks,” Berger said, noting that any control measures are going to look effective in the first few days of a hantavirus outbreak because it takes so long to show symptoms.

“When you’ve known about this situation for four or five days, you can’t then go and say, ‘Oh, yes, all the measures are effective.’ … Any informed observer looks at that and goes, ‘Well, you’re just bullshitting, because you can’t absolutely say that,’ ” he added.

Berger cites this as an example of what he and others have called “calm-mongering.”

There’s not a single institution or government agency that’s still retains credibility after the last 20 years of chicanery and fraud, and the media leads the way.