Commentary For 14 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended draconian restrictions on Americans’ daily lives to combat COVID-19. The CDC made light of the hardships and economic losses the restrictions inflicted. Call the agency the “Centers for Doubletalk and Confusion.” Now, evidence is emerging that the restrictions were based on flimsy science or sheer guesswork. Last week, MIT researchers showed that the CDC’s six-foot social distancing rule has no basis in science. If you’re indoors, your risk is the same whether an infected person is three feet away from you, or six feet away, or even 60 feet away. So much for carefully standing six feet apart in the grocery line. It’s a joke. On you. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the MIT researchers explained that an infected person emits the virus in an aerosol that can waft across indoor space, traveling 60 …