In the year of our Lord 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still living in its own bubble-wrapped world of safetyism, and neither presidential candidate is going to do anything to reform it.

News broke this week that California and Oregon “surprised” health officials by breaking with the CDC on COVID quarantine guidelines. The two Democratic-run states finally changed their guidelines to advise people who had COVID but no symptoms that they could still live their normal lives. That seems late, but it is worth noting that the CDC still believes the opposite: Since 2021, the agency has maintained that anyone with COVID, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not, must isolate themselves for five days and wear a mask for 10.