This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic's history:
For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave – even to go to a deserted beach – are reckless sociopaths.
It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked: https://t.co/SJUIz0dbOw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021
That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they'd politicize their expertise when convenient.
Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then — overnight! — cheered densely packed street protests. pic.twitter.com/DvOzIr5JX8
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021
In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When @theintercept editors learned this, they commissioned an article — for the same day — to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest. pic.twitter.com/22RjUrlVK2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021
As usual, elite institutions — media, government, public health authorities — love to whine about the refusal of the public to trust their pronouncements, complaining people turn to other less credentialed and worthy sources.
But they *never* ask what they did to cause this.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021
the exact moment my trust in our public heath experts began to erode was in June 2020 when they said “racism is a public health issue and therefore it’s okay to gather in public in the middle of a pandemic” https://t.co/hlg7pUfOz4
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) December 28, 2021
Via Instapundit:
Flashbacks:
● After telling GOP to downsize convention due to COVID-19, N.C. governor marches in crowded protest.
● NJ governor admits COVID-19 double standard, says recent protests are different from business owners’ complaints.
● De Blasio: Large Group Protests Are Acceptable, Religious Observances Are Not.
● NPR: Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests. “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,” they wrote.
● ‘Did I miss the memo?’: Hospital workers in full PPE applaud George Floyd protesters as they march past.
It was never explained… or, like most leftist hypocrisies, even attempted to be… how 4 people sitting at a table in a restaurant was an existential threat to public health but 5,000 screaming, spitting, sweating, crowding BLM/ANTIFA rioters could riot and loot and not spread COVID a single case (and, as far as we can tell, it didn’t).
Then, like now, the Democrats need to foment fear to justify control and cheating in elections.
20 years ago, I was called a Liberal Democrat because I didn’t trust the government.
Now, I am called a Conservative Republican because I don’t trust the government.
The Founders were right…about everything.