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Actor Tim Robbins Says “Demonizing” People Who Disagreed With Left’s COVID Narrative Was “Repugnant” And “Dangerous”
The Free Press ^ | 12/22/2022 | Liam Edgar

Posted on 12/22/2022 7:58:52 AM PST by Conservativetpa

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To: Tupelo

“Slowly I turned, step by step...’’


21 posted on 12/22/2022 9:05:01 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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Actor Tim Robbins Decries COVID-19 Sanctimony, Demonization of Vaccine Skeptics

epoch times ^ | 21 December A.D. 2022 | Michael Washburn
Posted on 12/21/2022, 4:23:30 PM by lightman

Renowned actor Tim Robbins told comedian Russell Brand during a podcast interview aired over the weekend that his views about COVID-19 restrictions completely changed when Robbins visited parts of the world where people publicly asserted their right to be free from masking, and that lockdown enforcers’ coercion, sanctimony, and demonization of those with different views have fed an atmosphere of tribalism and repression that is dangerous for civil society.

In conversation with Brand on the Dec. 18 episode of the comedian’s podcast, Robbins also voiced his dismay at official policies based on limited scientific studies that discouraged patterns of behavior that might have led to herd immunity, and thus arguably slowed the world’s emergence from the pandemic.

“We went into lockdown with healthy people, with children, and that didn’t seem to be wise to me,” Robbins told Brand.
“As someone who is concerned about the result those doctrines, that policy had on us as human beings, it’s not good.”

The decision of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to adjust its protocol regarding virus outbreaks spurred further reflections on Robbins’s part. In the past, the longstanding policy had been to take care of the elderly and vulnerable and limit their exposure as much as possible, while allowing others to carry on with their normal activities in order to develop herd immunity.

But COVID-19 gave U.S. officials carte blanche to implement measures of social coercion and control that limited how everybody, including the healthiest and most-able bodies members of society as well as the young, was allowed to live.

“We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people, and I don’t think that’s something that is sustainable for the earth, that we start demonizing people that don’t agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs, and say that they don’t deserve a hospital bed,” Robbins said.

The hardening of the attitudes of lockdown proponents went so far that, when faced with any disagreement, they began to show an indifference and even contempt for the lives of those with different viewpoints.

“I think about people that have made bad mistakes in their lives, where they take too many drugs and they overdose. That’s totally their choice, that’s totally their responsibility. Yet we take care of them, yet we bring them to the hospital, yet we save their lives, because we’re compassionate, because we want to make sure that people live. And this turned, it turned into ‘You should [expletive] die because you have not complied.’ That’s incredibly dangerous,” Robbins said.
“The fact there were these changes of definitions … my alarm bells went off. I wondered, what is going on? What is beyond the very real idea of taking care of people and making sure that we don’t have a terrible death rate?”’

Official About-Face

The decision of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to adjust its protocol regarding virus outbreaks spurred further reflections on Robbins’s part. In the past, the longstanding policy had been to take care of the elderly and vulnerable and limit their exposure as much as possible, while allowing others to carry on with their normal activities in order to develop herd immunity.

But COVID-19 gave U.S. officials carte blanche to implement measures of social coercion and control that limited how everybody, including the healthiest and most-able bodies members of society as well as the young, was allowed to live.

“We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people, and I don’t think that’s something that is sustainable for the earth, that we start demonizing people that don’t agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs, and say that they don’t deserve a hospital bed,” Robbins said.

The hardening of the attitudes of lockdown proponents went so far that, when faced with any disagreement, they began to show an indifference and even contempt for the lives of those with different viewpoints.

“I think about people that have made bad mistakes in their lives, where they take too many drugs and they overdose. That’s totally their choice, that’s totally their responsibility. Yet we take care of them, yet we bring them to the hospital, yet we save their lives, because we’re compassionate, because we want to make sure that people live. And this turned, it turned into ‘You should [expletive] die because you have not complied.’ That’s incredibly dangerous,” Robbins said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/actor-tim-robbins-decries-covid-19-sanctimony-demonization-of-vaccine-skeptics_4938196.html

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22 posted on 12/22/2022 9:34:45 AM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r)Near Year)
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To: Conservativetpa

I had a business contact in Uk say this to me:
“ I’ve just reviewed your previous responses to our Newsletter and quite a few of your replies were in a very impolite tone.” So I told this jerk, “We have free speech and you don`t. We whipped your British butts once for free speech and press. Would you like acre to try for 2?”


23 posted on 12/22/2022 9:52:06 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (gold is shiny n tiny)
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To: Conservativetpa

bump


24 posted on 12/22/2022 9:56:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bunkerhill7

again not acre typo


25 posted on 12/22/2022 9:57:48 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (gold is shiny n tiny)
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To: Conservativetpa

Hopefully he has “awakened” from the leftist/authoritarian stupor he has been in for Decades and remains “awake”, not “awoke” when it comes to reality.

Give it a “try” Tim. That would be a nice Xmas present for sanity and America.


26 posted on 12/22/2022 10:21:38 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: crusty old prospector
"Welcome to the party, pal. Isn’t that from a Christmas movie?"

It sure is!


27 posted on 12/22/2022 10:25:33 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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