I’ve completely lost track of why we’re talking about this. Some people in government gave advice 5 years ago about a newly diagnosed illness that turned out not to be that bad…
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I guess it's that they didn't try to stop mass spontaneous protests about a white cop torturing a black man to death on camera over 10 minutes, and people on the Right used it as an excuse to be the revolting, execrable people they were going to be anyway.
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The right was already doing that. Like in the Michigan state house. *Before* George Floyd was murdered. Tom isn't claiming protest and resistance from the right against covid restrictions was because of how health experts OK'd George Floyd protests.
sep 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
It's about integrity of advice by experts (public health experts in this case) and public trust. Not about what the right does, esp. re covid which was insane.
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Tom's basic point is how public health experts were *at the time* advising against any large gathering. Outdoors too. But, come the George Floyd protests, the advice changed explicitly because it was for a cause they supported. That hurt their credibility, and faith in experts in general.
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