In drawing up the guidelines, the health officers of the four states — all of whom are medical doctors — said they consulted top medical organizations and subject matter experts. They said the new recommendations were also intended to help prevent strain on hospitals this winter by reducing community transmission and cases of serious illness in the states.

A year from now there’s gonna be hearings accusing “the left” of biological warfare against red states because that could be the only explanation for why they’re about to get decimated by common diseases.

People aren’t as hardy as pre-covid, every respiratory disease hits harder