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re: NY Times - Are Protests Unsafe?
Posted on 7/6/20 at 11:40 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 7/6/20 at 11:40 am to RLDSC FAN
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Some public health scientists publicly waved off the conflicted feelings of their colleagues, saying the country now confronts a stark moral choice. The letter signed by more than 1,300 epidemiologists and health workers urged Americans to adopt a “consciously anti-racist” stance and framed the difference between the anti-lockdown demonstrators and the protesters in moral, ideological and racial terms.
Those who protested stay-at-home orders were “rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives” the letter stated.
That is the part that really stands out to me. Protesting a stay at home order was rooted in white nationalism. I guess I missed the part where these protesters demanded only white businesses be allowed to open.
Posted on 7/6/20 at 11:49 am to bod312
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That is the part that really stands out to me. Protesting a stay at home order was rooted in white nationalism. I guess I missed the part where these protesters demanded only white businesses be allowed to open.
A more stark revelation is that the epidemiologists even consider the purpose/reasoning (real or presumed) behind a mass gathering when discussing public health policy. Diseases do not spread based on the ideology of the people gathered--it is either highly contagious in large groups or it isn't.
What the protesters are protesting is not even relevant from a medical or epidemiological standpoint.
This post was edited on 7/6/20 at 12:14 pm
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