This is a rush transcript of “Special Report with Bret Baier” on December 29, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
BAIER: The decision talked about there, the quarantine from 10 days to five days. A lot of people are saying they are welcoming that, obviously, as more Omicron cases pop up around the country. However, the decision to make it and what’s behind it for the CDC director to say it had to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate.
Let’s start there. Let’s bring in our panel, Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at “The Federalist,” Charles Lane, opinion writer for “The Washington Post,” and “Washington Post” columnist Marc Thiessen. I guess that perked up my ears, Marc, listening to following the science for so long.
MARC THIESSEN, COLUMNIST, “WASHINGTON POST”: Yes. No, honestly, we would have been better off in this if the CDC didn’t exist. It’s been a disaster from the beginning. Just this week they revised downward the prevalence of the Omicron variant from 73.2 percent, which they reported great confidence last week, to they said, no, it actually was 22.5. That’s not a minor revision. That’s a 50.7 percentage points. How do you get that badly wrong?
And they did this now on the isolation? They also came up with the six feet distance rule out of whole cloth. There was no science behind it. That’s what shut down all these schools. So the CDC were wrong on masking, they screwed up the testing at the beginning of the pandemic, they wouldn’t let private labs do testing. The CDC is an absolute disaster. I don’t understand how people can trust our public health officials anymore.
BAIER: Chuck, what do you think about that, what Marc is saying, and also kind of trying to find out our way forward as we see a less severe Omicron popping up, really in every state?
CHARLES LANE, OPINION WRITER, “WASHINGTON POST”: In terms of tolerance, the word of the day, I guess, people will tolerate a lot of things from government in a…
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