Public health people were very clear that outside protest marches are OK if they're about BLM but utterly reprehensible and banned if they were protests against

Public health people were very clear that outside protest marches are OK if they're about BLM but utterly reprehensible and banned if they were protests against lockdowns or other public health initiatives. Clearly, such people aren't scientists and never were. What was more interesting/depressing was the total lack of outrage coming from academia. Ritchie observes that biologists in particular seem to have serious problems with communist ideology to the extent that they advertise it on Twitter, and in the UK (where he's from) somehow the official SAGE advisory group ended up with someone on it who is a literal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain! We can infer that academia was silent about this massive perversion of science because they agree with it or at least don't disagree enough to speak out, meaning that public health research in general is nonsensical.