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Unfortunately, the risk/reward equation is confounded by people who interpret any kind of public health measures as a slippery slope towards fascism.
by Niksko 5y ago
Unfortunately, the risk/reward equation is confounded by people who interpret any kind of public health measures as a slippery slope towards fascism.
- sjwalter 5y agoBad take. People are rightly wary of public health when public health openly discredits itself--you'd have to be an absolute imbecile to believe, e.g., covid was a huge risk during anti-lockdown protests, but was not at all a concern during BLM protests.
- tshaddox 5y agoWhen did “public health openly discredit itself” in such a way?
- zepto 5y agoSeems like the comment you are replying to contains an example.
- tshaddox 5y agoYes, I am asking for an example of when that happened.
- zepto 5y agoIt was very public news. Even the controversy was widely reported. I’m surprised you don’t know about it. In any case it should be easy to Google.
- tshaddox 5y agoI think you are remembering incorrectly.
- sjwalter 5y agoThis kind of gaslighting is why nobody trusts authority any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/protests-and-trump-rallies-both-carry-covid-19-risks-but-theres-a-reason-trumps-rallies-are-worse/2020/09/15/a677ddde-f791-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/protests-and-trump-r... Just one of MANY stories why BLM protests are so much less risky than, e.g., Trump rallies. When it was widely rebuked as hypocritical bullshit, they even came up with a crazy way of explaining it away: Now racism was a "public health crisis", all of a sudden. See the google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=racism%20public%20health https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... Just like how January 6 was an insurrection worthy of months of security state theatrics and proclamations that "white supremacy" is the biggest threat to the USA domestically, whereas an entire summer of burning buildings and riots was "mostly peaceful protests". This is why nobody trusts authority and the media anymore--they have given up on even a pretense of seeming trustworthy.
- tshaddox 5y agoThose are factual claims about the protests being less risky than the rallies. They’re either true or false. There’s nothing hypocritical here where anyone is saying it’s okay to attend one event and not the other because of the purpose of the event. It’s literally claiming that one event is outdoors and attendees tend to follow health guidelines, while the other event is indoors and attendees tend to not follow health guidelines. Is the claim false? Perhaps, and anyone is free to argue that. But this is nothing close to an example of the situation previously described.
- zepto 5y ago> It’s literally claiming that one event is outdoors and attendees tend to follow health guidelines Yes - and it’s not true - there is plenty of footage of protesters not following health guidelines, and indeed plenty of discussion of how the protests may have precipitated a covid spike. The fact that other similar events were not permitted proves the hypocrisy in the public health guidance regardless of the outcome. If you don’t think there is any political bias in public health policy, that’s fine, but it seems like we are in disagreement about that.
- Niksko 5y agoTerrible take. Weariness is fine. Interpreting it as a step towards fascism is just individualism taken to it's empathy-less extreme.