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Was public health advice in a pandemic dependent on whether people approved of the mass gathering in question? To many, the answer seemed to be “yes.”

It absolutely was.

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"The way the public health narrative around coronavirus has reversed itself overnight seems an awful lot like … politicizing science,” the essayist and journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote in The Guardian last month. “What are we to make of such whiplash-inducing messaging?”

I have stopped even looking at coronavirus news. It's over as far as I'm concerned, and I don't want to hear shite that any supposed "expert" has to say because they've made their motives crystal clear.

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“I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I’m not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that,” she said. “I have a hard time articulating why that is OK.”

Be cause it's not OK. It is the very definition of hypocrisy. She knows she is wrong. I'd respect it if she came out and said, "you know, I let my emotions cloud my judgement and it was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to leave out any outside influences when giving out information that may have an impact on public health and safety." But nah, she's just STILL searching for a way to "articulate why it was OK.

shite like that just really gets under my skin. Here is an "expert" in something that is affecting almost every citizen's daily life and she is admitting to political bias, in one of the nation's biggest media outlets. Admitting she is wrong. Letting us know she is still trying to justify it. And well, that's that. Do you think the school she works at is going to take her to task for this quote? Hell no.

It's all so fricking obvious and ridiculous and if you say anything in opposition, as many have done, you're labeled a racist, white supremacist, who is willing to let MeeMaw die a horrible death so you can have a haircut. Ughh. frick, I shouldn't have read this article.

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Posted by IAmNERD

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Posted on 7/6/20 at 12:08 pm to IAmNERD

Then you have gems like this further down in the article:

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There is as of yet no firm evidence that protests against police violence led to noticeable spikes in infection rates.

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Health officials in Houston and Los Angeles have suggested the demonstrations there led to increased infections, but they have not provided data. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has instructed contact tracers not to ask if infected people attended protests.

Two cities have said there was a spike due to the protests. But, they haven't presented any data yet, so it didn't happen.

And the largest city in the country running a contact tracing program is actively juking the stats by not even looking for the data. It can't be proven if you never even look at it.

So ridiculous.

ETA: And here we go. Shifting blame to the evil police doing their jobs to protect innocent people and their property.