My response was essentially, "I can do it, but we will need to explain why we are going against CDC guidelines or else I see a mass problem on our hands. Can you get that reasoning for me so I can share it?"
A few hours later, the request for the memo was rescinded. Big win in my book.
Exactly, given the lack of critical thinking ability, the pathetic civics/government education our schools are providing and the large numbers of people who only came to the US after they got out of school, one could tell the vast majority of people almost anything about recommendations, mandates, laws, organizations like the AMA, CDC and the WHO, the alphabet agencies, the legal system and the government and they'd believe it without question.