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Protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody have been carried out in every state in the nation, in small towns and large cities alike with gatherings of hundreds to thousands of people. In Manhattan on Saturday, police estimated 15,000 people demonstrated. And through it all, Democratic leaders like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who enforced some of the strictest lockdown orders in the country over coronavirus, all of a sudden seemed to not really care about social distancing. And the media who shamed Americans for protesting stay-at-home orders threw their full support behind the demonstrations. But now...

Sometimes you just have to laugh aloud at the brazenness of the national socialist media in an Orwellian narrative change. With Antifa riots dissipating and the George Floyd protests leading to pure insanity, the left has decided to revive pandemic panic as though nothing happened to make the pandemic safety theater superfluous. This morning, USA Today had the stunning sub-headline: “New York City begins to reopen amid coronavirus pandemic” as though the city and the rest of the nation hadn’t already been forced open by the Antifa riots...They weren’t the only ones, with the Associated Press and other leftist propaganda...

Dr. Deborah Birx said that it was “difficult to tell” whether a second coronavirus wave in the Fall could cause another national lockdown. Birx’s Sunday morning interview on ABC’s “This Week” came after President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he will not “close” the country if, as Dr. Anthony Fauci expects, cases spike again later this year. WATCH: “I think we’re trying to learn right now very carefully about how you reopen safely,” Birx responded when asked by ABC’s Martha Raddatz if that was the “right approach.” “You know we act like we’ve actually done this before and besides...