[Griffins78]

... The insurance companies aren't scientists prepared to figure out what precautions mitigate enough risk to insure a business with a highly contagious, deadly virus running rampant through the country and world. State and local governments also rely on the CDC for guidance. They can't all be coming up with their own standards. Insurance companies might say they will insure businesses that follow California standards, but if you are in Iowa and your government has given you guidelines that aren't as thorough as CA's, and then find out you can't be insured, because you haven't put enough safety measures in place, you're screwed.

So messing around with CDC protocols doesn't help businesses open because insurance companies are going to pull coverage if they aren't taking enough steps to mitigate risk.  The unintended consequences of being dumb AF, like those in the Executive Branch clearly are.

I think they are keenly aware that we need CDC guidelines for businesses to be opened up and covered for liability. I think that’s why the executive order to keep meat packing plants open - it allowed them to break CDC or any other guidelines without liability thus forcing workers into risky, possibly deadly working conditions.

I might be wrong but I think they will soon release CDC Guidelines, after they’ve been watered down and loosened to allow more businesses to open up with minimal cost or disruption and be able to cover themselves by claiming, “we’re following CDC Guidelines.” That’s what they’ve done to many other oversight and safety regulations. And if the original guidelines, vetted by the CDC scientists and experts had not been leaked, the world would not know the published guidelines had been altered by “who knows?”

[Griffins78]

... The insurance companies aren't scientists prepared to figure out what precautions mitigate enough risk to insure a business with a highly contagious, deadly virus running rampant through the country and world. State and local governments also rely on the CDC for guidance. They can't all be coming up with their own standards. Insurance companies might say they will insure businesses that follow California standards, but if you are in Iowa and your government has given you guidelines that aren't as thorough as CA's, and then find out you can't be insured, because you haven't put enough safety measures in place, you're screwed.

So messing around with CDC protocols doesn't help businesses open because insurance companies are going to pull coverage if they aren't taking enough steps to mitigate risk.  The unintended consequences of being dumb AF, like those in the Executive Branch clearly are.

I think they are keenly aware that we need CDC guidelines for businesses to be opened up and covered for liability. I think that’s why the executive order to keep meat packing plants open - it allowed them to break CDC or any other guidelines without liability thus forcing workers into risky, possibly deadly working conditions.

I might be wrong but I think they will soon release CDC Guidelines, after they’ve been watered down and loosened to allow more businesses to open up with minimal cost or disruption and be able to cover themselves by claiming, “we’re following CDC Guidelines.” That’s what they’ve done to many other oversight and safety regulations. And if the original guidelines, vetted by the CDC scientists and experts had not been leaked, the world would not know the published guidelines had been altered by “who knows?”