Staggering, Again: CDC and Public Health Officials Determined Fighting Systemic Racism Was More Important Than Stopping Covid Spread (1 Viewer)

[Juxtatarot]

Did they condemn it? I have learned that not proactively condemning is the same as supporting. 

You can't just not support looting, you have to be anti looting. 

But, of course, you don’t really believe that not proactively condemning is the same as supporting. I agree with you on that. 
 

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Conservatives were calling out this hypocrisy from the very first day and few listened.     

Looking back, I think all of us underestimated how big a deal this particular episode was in radicalizing people like me.  

It's hard to believe this now unless you lived through it, but in the spring of 2020, the most evil people on the planet were a handful of Floridians who wanted to spend their shutdown days by themselves at deserted beaches.  People in the media and public health communities were screaming about how irresponsible these people were, as if sitting alone or with family in the clean air outdoors was personally killing all the grandmas.  Some dip#### dressed up like the grim reaper and went around harassing these folks to favorable media coverage even though he was probably more responsible for spreading covid than anybody else on the beach.  And I'm sitting here like "It seems like people are overreacting to a few folks looking for a little ray or normalcy during a dark time, but then again it's a global pandemic and everything else is shut down, so maybe those folks should just stay home too to be on the safe side."

Then George Floyd happened and all the sudden the same jackasses who were scolding everyone for sitting on the beach -- and don't even think about getting married or holding a funeral -- are telling me that we can just put the pandemic on hold because this particular cause is important to the Professional Managerial Class.  That was the precise moment when I realized that our "public health experts" aren't that different from our Gender Studies faculty.  There's no way to recover from that.

 

[djmich]

Looking back, I think all of us underestimated how big a deal this particular episode was in radicalizing people like me.  

It's hard to believe this now unless you lived through it, but in the spring of 2020, the most evil people on the planet were a handful of Floridians who wanted to spend their shutdown days by themselves at deserted beaches.  People in the media and public health communities were screaming about how irresponsible these people were, as if sitting alone or with family in the clean air outdoors was personally killing all the grandmas.  Some dip#### dressed up like the grim reaper and went around harassing these folks to favorable media coverage even though he was probably more responsible for spreading covid than anybody else on the beach.  And I'm sitting here like "It seems like people are overreacting to a few folks looking for a little ray or normalcy during a dark time, but then again it's a global pandemic and everything else is shut down, so maybe those folks should just stay home too to be on the safe side."

Then George Floyd happened and all the sudden the same jackasses who were scolding everyone for sitting on the beach -- and don't even think about getting married or holding a funeral -- are telling me that we can just put the pandemic on hold because this particular cause is important to the Professional Managerial Class.  That was the precise moment when I realized that our "public health experts" aren't that different from our Gender Studies faculty.  There's no way to recover from that.

I forgot about the lunacy around beaches and masking to start...in retrospect the turnaround of opinion was breathtaking.  

 

[AAABatteries]

The beach thing and outdoor running do seem rather silly in hindsight. 

 

[Boston]

Looking back, I think all of us underestimated how big a deal this particular episode was in radicalizing people like me.  

It's hard to believe this now unless you lived through it, but in the spring of 2020, the most evil people on the planet were a handful of Floridians who wanted to spend their shutdown days by themselves at deserted beaches.  People in the media and public health communities were screaming about how irresponsible these people were, as if sitting alone or with family in the clean air outdoors was personally killing all the grandmas.  Some dip#### dressed up like the grim reaper and went around harassing these folks to favorable media coverage even though he was probably more responsible for spreading covid than anybody else on the beach.  And I'm sitting here like "It seems like people are overreacting to a few folks looking for a little ray or normalcy during a dark time, but then again it's a global pandemic and everything else is shut down, so maybe those folks should just stay home too to be on the safe side."

Then George Floyd happened and all the sudden the same jackasses who were scolding everyone for sitting on the beach -- and don't even think about getting married or holding a funeral -- are telling me that we can just put the pandemic on hold because this particular cause is important to the Professional Managerial Class.  That was the precise moment when I realized that our "public health experts" aren't that different from our Gender Studies faculty.  There's no way to recover from that.

Amen!

 

[supermike80]

Looking back, I think all of us underestimated how big a deal this particular episode was in radicalizing people like me.  

It's hard to believe this now unless you lived through it, but in the spring of 2020, the most evil people on the planet were a handful of Floridians who wanted to spend their shutdown days by themselves at deserted beaches.  People in the media and public health communities were screaming about how irresponsible these people were, as if sitting alone or with family in the clean air outdoors was personally killing all the grandmas.  Some dip#### dressed up like the grim reaper and went around harassing these folks to favorable media coverage even though he was probably more responsible for spreading covid than anybody else on the beach.  And I'm sitting here like "It seems like people are overreacting to a few folks looking for a little ray or normalcy during a dark time, but then again it's a global pandemic and everything else is shut down, so maybe those folks should just stay home too to be on the safe side."

Then George Floyd happened and all the sudden the same jackasses who were scolding everyone for sitting on the beach -- and don't even think about getting married or holding a funeral -- are telling me that we can just put the pandemic on hold because this particular cause is important to the Professional Managerial Class.  That was the precise moment when I realized that our "public health experts" aren't that different from our Gender Studies faculty.  There's no way to recover from that.

The Governor of Michigan went ape nuts over protesting outside the Capitol over covid related lockdowns.  That same governor was out front at a BLM rally not long after that.   How can you take anyone seriously when they are that hypocritical?   

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/04/whitmer-appears-break-social-distance-rules-highland-park-march/3146244001/

 

[djmich]

Looking back, I think all of us underestimated how big a deal this particular episode was in radicalizing people like me.  

It's hard to believe this now unless you lived through it, but in the spring of 2020, the most evil people on the planet were a handful of Floridians who wanted to spend their shutdown days by themselves at deserted beaches.  People in the media and public health communities were screaming about how irresponsible these people were, as if sitting alone or with family in the clean air outdoors was personally killing all the grandmas.  Some dip#### dressed up like the grim reaper and went around harassing these folks to favorable media coverage even though he was probably more responsible for spreading covid than anybody else on the beach.  And I'm sitting here like "It seems like people are overreacting to a few folks looking for a little ray or normalcy during a dark time, but then again it's a global pandemic and everything else is shut down, so maybe those folks should just stay home too to be on the safe side."

Then George Floyd happened and all the sudden the same jackasses who were scolding everyone for sitting on the beach -- and don't even think about getting married or holding a funeral -- are telling me that we can just put the pandemic on hold because this particular cause is important to the Professional Managerial Class.  That was the precise moment when I realized that our "public health experts" aren't that different from our Gender Studies faculty.  There's no way to recover from that.

Along the same vein, think we're going to see a lot of folks try to obfuscate their role in the unnecessarily punitive decisions they helped drive on our children early on.

Chutzpah

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Along the same vein, think we're going to see a lot of folks try to obfuscate their role in the unnecessarily punitive decisions they helped drive on our children early on.

Chutzpah

I'm pretty confident that in 2024 you won't be able to find anybody who supported school closings in 2021 and 2022.  The gaslighting is going to be something to behold.