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Michigan has been one of the states that stayed locked down the longest; obviously it didn't work!

Michigan Republicans fire back after CDC director tells state to shut down: 'not the answer'

Congressional lawmakers from Michigan reacted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) telling their state to shut down as the Wolverine State leads the nation in COVID-19 cases.

Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation spoke out against the CDC's new recommendation to shut the state down again amid a COVID-19 spike, while Democratic members sided with the CDC.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters on Monday that a shutdown was necessary as the state wouldn’t be able to use a vaccine surge as a solution to the rising number of cases.

"Really what we need to do in those situations is to shut things down," Walensky said Monday. "If we tried to vaccinate our way out of what is happening in Michigan, we would be disappointed that it took so long for the vaccine to work to actually have the impact."

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., decried the CDC’s recommendation to shut down Michigan again in a statement to Fox News, calling on the Biden administration to "adopt a surge strategy" and give the state more vaccines instead of backing another shutdown..............

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-michigan-cdc-shutdown-republicans
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Nobody is mentioning fatigue. Nobody is mentioning that we never agreed to this: it was forced upon us with the premise that it would eventually be lifted. But it still hasn't, and the long-term trauma is going to start to form when things continue to be shut down this year. Once is a fluke, twice is a trend, and people will start getting "used to it". Used to the depression. Used to not having events that used to encourage social bonding. Used to being antisocial and lonely. And those things will likely never recover. Had we set a firm limit on these things and acknowledged we can't control an airborne virus, we would have had that bigger and better 2021 and let the short-term pain slide. But if we lose 2020 and 2021, no one will bother in 2022. We've been betrayed.

1918 was never this long. There has to be limits.
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