Posted on 06/08/2020 9:20:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The protests over the death of George Floyd have brought to the surface a good example of why so many in the general public no longer trust what public health professionals are saying about the coronavirus pandemic. The information being given to us is confusing and ever-changing. Now the information is being filtered through the lens of social justice activism.
Many in the medical and scientific community have publicly come out in support of Black Lives Matter and the protests dominating the news. It’s a free country, that’s their right to individually do so but it is quite another thing for their personal opinions to affect public health recommendations. Last week I wrote about White Coats for Black Lives in Houston and members of the Texas Medical Centers joining in on the BLM march. At the time, the mayor’s spokeswoman offered up an interesting opinion – the death of a black man in police custody is “a public health crisis.” The talking points have been established.
Protesting during a pandemic is doable if the cause is righteous, that’s the message being sent. An open letter signed by 1,300 epidemiologists and public health experts says that “protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.” These professionals specifically say that their support of racial injustice protests does not mean they endorse other gatherings – you know, like protests about stay-at-home orders. The open letter actually says that “COVID-19 among black patients is yet another lethal manifestation of white supremacy.” Wow. Take that, white people.
Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To the extent possible, we support the application of these public health best practices during demonstrations that call attention to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy. However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States. We can show that support by facilitating safest protesting practices without detracting from demonstrators’ ability to gather and demand change. This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders. Those actions not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives. Protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.
Apparently the science changes if a protest is for the right cause. My question is a simple one – if COVID-19 affects the black community in greater numbers than others, as the data shows due mostly to underlying medical conditions, why would the professionals be encouraging protests comprised in large numbers of black people? Does that make sense?
Example two is one of the scientists from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). They, too, have written a letter. Scientists from the philanthropic organization funded by Zuckerberg but separate from Facebook are none too pleased that the evil Orange Man is allowed to post freely on Facebook without censorship. They long for some authoritarian action (stricter policy enforcement) to be taken against the President of the United States because he spreads “inaccurate information and incendiary language contrary to CZI’s mission to “build a healthier, just, and more inclusive future.” I bet you can guess which statement, in particular, offended them the most.
The list of signatories includes professors from more than 60 leading research institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as well as one Nobel laureate.
“As scientists, we are dedicated to investigating ways to better our world,” the letter says. “The spread of deliberate misinformation and divisive language is directly antithetical to this goal and we are therefore deeply concerned at the stance Facebook has taken,” on policing content.
The letter calls out one policy stance in particular: Zuckerberg’s decision to allow President Trump to post, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” on Facebook’s platform, a reference to the protests around the country following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. The scientists argue that the message clearly flouts the company’s rules against inciting violence.
“Thus, like many, we were disconcerted to see that Facebook has not followed their own policies in regards to President Trump,” the letter says.
A third example comes from Dr. Fauci and the CDC. Separately they have sent messages that large protests will likely produce a spike in coronavirus cases. Fauci said Friday that protests are “the perfect set-up” for spreading COVID-19. Fauci was sure to put into his warning that the protesters have a constitutional right to do so “because the reasons for demonstrating are valid.” Thanks, Doc. Validity doesn’t override the danger to the public though, does it? Also, he mentions that tear gas and pepper spray make people cough and sneeze, thus increasing the possibility of transmitting the virus.
Fauci emphasized that while demonstrators have both a constitutional right and a good reason to protest, he noted that people gathering in close proximity, shouting and chanting, and possibly being exposed to tear gas or pepper spray – crowd-controlling irritants that make people cough, sneeze, and rub their eyes — increases the risk of transmitting the virus.
“There certainly is a risk, I would say that with confidence, when you see the congregation of crowds,” he said, “particularly in a situation where you have a lot of confusion and a little bit of chaos, people running back and forth, taking their masks off, being close in proximity, that does pose a risk.”
The director of the CDC told a House panel Thursday that “I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event.”
So, there we are. Public trust is eroding because the story is constantly changing and public health officials are picking winners and losers on the subject of protests. Who can blame folks that protested on behalf of small business owners and church members for being angry that they were penalized while mass protests take over cities across the country? Why did a choice have to be made between those protesting over economic and personal freedom issues and those seeking social justice?
Too many areas of science have become Political Science.
You could see it with Global Warming. Now it has spread far beyond that.
“...Public Trust In The Scientific Community Is Waning...”
Waning? WANING??? Really. How about NADA...NONE!
Fauxi and his PIAPS-loving ilk are nothing but traitors and should be treated as such.
IF they said the sky was blue, no one at this point would believe em.
Because the Rat Party has routinely prostituted scientists to support their agenda
I’m hearing that some city/county/state health departments are seeing a sudden uptick in WuFlu cases associated with people who’ve attended the riots/protests.
And that some health departments are busily doing their damnedest to obfuscate the connection.
Government funding ruined the pursuit of knowledge.
If one can get rich and famous helping the government find "scientific" ways to enlarge its power and financial reach, what do you think "scientists" are going to spend their time on?
-Fauxi 2005. NIH Scientists Conceal Millions in Royalties for Experimental Treatments
-Fauxi’s 15 deadly mistakes and contradictions
-Fauxi and Birx used fraudulent Imperial College model to urge shut down
-Modeler had to resign in disgrace
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/professor-lockdown-modeler-resigns-in-disgrace/
-Fauxi later reverses and says we can’t rely on models
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/04/03/fauci-we-cant-really-rely-on-models/ ;
-Fauxi has numerous conflicts of interest
https://newswithviews.com/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-have-a-record-of-medical-failure/
-Fauxi has long history of fraud
http://www.americanfreedomunion.com/dr-faucis-long-criminal-history/
https://www.coreysdigs.com/law-order/when-the-masks-went-on-their-masks-came-off/
-Fauxi fired researcher that exposed his vaccines were spreading chronic diseases
-Fauxi is Hillary loyalist
-Fauxi promised AIDS Vaccine and has yet to deliver
https://newswithviews.com/dr-fauci-and-dr-birx-have-a-record-of-medical-failure/
-Scarf Queen falsified data on HIV research
https://truepundit.com/dod-leak-feds-investigated-birx-fabricated-falsified-hiv-aids-vaccine-trials/
- Fauxi knew hydroxyxhloroquine could both cure and prevent corona viruses in 2005. Passive aggressive on HCQ in 2020. Intentional?
-”Fauxi” praised use of hydroxychloroquine in 2013 to treat the MERS corona virus. Risky drug in 2020?
COVER UP: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; “Nobody Needed to Die” – True Pundit
-Fauxi funded research grants to Wuhan lab to fund risky virus research that was illegal in the U.S.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-to-wuhan/
-Fauxi in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a “Surprise Global Disease Outbreak”. What did he know?
-Despite his 2017 prediction, Fauxi unprepared for 2020 pandemic. By design?
-In Jan 2020 interview, he said, “... this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” - intentional?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/03/flashback-fauci-coronavirus-us-threat-trump/
-Fauxi caught on video flip flopping on severity of the virus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59a0uGIFZGY
-Fauxi said masks do not work.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask-60-minutes-2020-03-08/
-Fauxi in February said malls, gyms and movie theaters were OK. Make us more vulnerable?
-Fauxi in March said Americans cruises were OK. Catch us with guard down?
-Fauci on CNN Easter Sunday suggested President Trump should have shut down the country in February
-Fauxi exaggerated need for Hospital beds
-Fauxi is front man for Big Pharma, pushing expensive new drugs that require tests and trials rather than inexpensive proven cures like HCQ+zinc+zpack that have been around for decades. More time to let the virus spread?
-Fauxi delaying tests of vaccines and cures
-Fauxi agenda is mandated vaccines to benefit Big Pharma and Bill Gates.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/8/anthony-fauci-sets-stage-mandatory-vaccine/
-Fauxi 100% wrong with exaggerated models
-Fauxi longtime relationship with corrupt WHO director, a communist-globalist with terrorist ties, who covers for the CCP
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/fauci-who-head-really-outstanding-person
-Fauxi endorses Tinder hookups
https://nypost.com/2020/04/15/fauci-endorses-tinder-hookups-with-a-caveat/
-Fauxi plotted ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’ with depopulation advocate Bill Gates, pushing panic and doubts about HCQ. Big Pharma $$$s.
- Fauxi, May 2020 told National Geographic the virus did not originate in Chinese Lab.
-Fauxi wrong again on State of Georgia reopening
-Dr Birx now believes CDC inflating death numbers by as much as 25%. distancing herself?
-First Case in US Treated with Remdesivir was January – Two Weeks Later China Was Mass Producing the Drug – The Firm Gilead Sciences and Dr. Fauci Are In the Middle
Fauxi’s own NIH - Breakthrough: Chloroquine Phosphate Has Shown Apparent Efficacy in Treatment of COVID-19 Associated Pneumonia in Clinical Studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32074
https://mobile.twitter.com/99freemind/status/1243171622661521409/photo/2
Two Fauxi mistakes led to nationwide Lockdown
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-two-mistakes-that-led-to-a-national-lockdown_3349318.html
Fauci and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims
Fauxi ties to Deep State, Soros, Gates, Clintons
Fauci caught in lie about inflammatory condition in children (May 2020)
DEMONS are marching with Antifa, BLM, and their dupes in the streets of our Nation!!!!
They are inciting the “demonstrators” (DEMONstrators?) to burn, loot, trash, and even KILL!!!!
The demons are also robbing all too many scientists and physicians of their reason, and causing them to side with the vile trashers or our communities!!
The scientists for the most part believe neither in God nor in demons, but the demons are taking them for a ride nevertheless!! Unless they turn to God, the demons will continue to have their way with them!
Lord have Mercy!!!!
“Lord have Mercy!!!!”
Amen!
The Left breaks everything it touches.
And how closely the results of scientific inquiry match the desires of the sponsoring politicians.
Let’s get one thing straight. Fauci is NOT a scientist. He is a physician .
Physicians are not trained in rigorous analysis of data or how those data may or may not be significant
Some physicians may become scientists through additional study but an MD generally relies on anecdotal data and subjective reports .
The party of science has corrupted science beyond recognition.
It isn’t waning! It’s gone. they are liars and are not using science other than political science.
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