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This Black Lives Matter protest happened in the middle of the pandemic and the woke/media/blue-check industrial complex cheered it on.
Now they want to close churches and shutdown thanksgiving.
I called for lockdowns in march and I'm infuriated.
A thread
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1331862840995528704
This Black Lives Matter protest happened in the middle of the pandemic and the woke/media/blue-check industrial complex cheered it on.
Now they want to close churches and shutdown thanksgiving.
I called for lockdowns in march and I'm infuriated.
A thread
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1331862840995528704
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In March I worked for a government in Canada that implemented testing, tracing, capcity limits on indoor gatherings, and social distancing.
These measures work and allowed us to re-open churches, synagogues, mosques, and small businesses back in *JULY*
We have stayed open.
In March I worked for a government in Canada that implemented testing, tracing, capcity limits on indoor gatherings, and social distancing.
These measures work and allowed us to re-open churches, synagogues, mosques, and small businesses back in *JULY*
We have stayed open.
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In light of a recent surge, the government mandated masks in public.
I support this.
As a result of these measures number of confirmed active cases is less than .1%.
Churches and synagogues contiue to *REMAIN OPEN* (with some limits on capacity)
So, why am I angry?
In light of a recent surge, the government mandated masks in public.
I support this.
As a result of these measures number of confirmed active cases is less than .1%.
Churches and synagogues contiue to *REMAIN OPEN* (with some limits on capacity)
So, why am I angry?
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I'm *ANGRY* because prominent members of the medical community have undermined established medical science and destroyed its credibility by playing favorites, selective rule enforcement, granting exemptions for ideological reasons, and otherwise engaging in rank hypocrisy.
I'm *ANGRY* because prominent members of the medical community have undermined established medical science and destroyed its credibility by playing favorites, selective rule enforcement, granting exemptions for ideological reasons, and otherwise engaging in rank hypocrisy.
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They flood the zone with urgent warnings and media panic when small businesses open at 30% capacity or when Churches or snyagogues meet, and they demand these people stay home and shame them for leaving the house unnecessarily.
Then they cheer BLM rallies that look like this:
They flood the zone with urgent warnings and media panic when small businesses open at 30% capacity or when Churches or snyagogues meet, and they demand these people stay home and shame them for leaving the house unnecessarily.
Then they cheer BLM rallies that look like this:
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The same medical experts who now warn about small businesses, churches, and synagogues while shaming those who might attend a service, have spent months telling us mass protests of thousands of people must continue:
The same medical experts who now warn about small businesses, churches, and synagogues while shaming those who might attend a service, have spent months telling us mass protests of thousands of people must continue:
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Here, @s_j_prins, a professor at @ColumbiaMSPH says public health needs to "pick a side," then he changes a medical advice graphic for police and protestors so it offers advice to protestors and tells police to stay home. He then says "defund, disarm, and abolish" the police.
Here, @s_j_prins, a professor at @ColumbiaMSPH says public health needs to "pick a side," then he changes a medical advice graphic for police and protestors so it offers advice to protestors and tells police to stay home. He then says "defund, disarm, and abolish" the police.
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Julia Marcus responds. She's worried people may blame the protestors for spreading COVID. She then admits one question she asks when she gives advice is....
"Does it help us build power?"
She admits making public health recommendations based on what helps her side get power.
Julia Marcus responds. She's worried people may blame the protestors for spreading COVID. She then admits one question she asks when she gives advice is....
"Does it help us build power?"
She admits making public health recommendations based on what helps her side get power.
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We need the help of experts in order to make good decisions and set good policy.
But we need experts to be honest within their area of expertise, and not to use their position of authority to make policy that shows favoritism to whoever agrees with those experts politics.
We need the help of experts in order to make good decisions and set good policy.
But we need experts to be honest within their area of expertise, and not to use their position of authority to make policy that shows favoritism to whoever agrees with those experts politics.
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When experts use technical knowledge as an excuse to make policies which force their political and moral values on the rest of us, it erodes the trust people have in both experts and the medical and scientific institutions that teach, train, and give experts their legitimacy.
When experts use technical knowledge as an excuse to make policies which force their political and moral values on the rest of us, it erodes the trust people have in both experts and the medical and scientific institutions that teach, train, and give experts their legitimacy.
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This means the medical establishment and their media enablers have mortgaged the credibility, legitimacy, and trust of the scientific and medical establishment in order to pay for the temporary high of political power and social activism.
And we're all paying for it.
This means the medical establishment and their media enablers have mortgaged the credibility, legitimacy, and trust of the scientific and medical establishment in order to pay for the temporary high of political power and social activism.
And we're all paying for it.
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The social capital that scientists, universities, experts and the media rely on to do their job is *TRUST*
They lose a little bit of that capital every time those of us who rely on them to run our lives find out we've been lied to.
The social capital that scientists, universities, experts and the media rely on to do their job is *TRUST*
They lose a little bit of that capital every time those of us who rely on them to run our lives find out we've been lied to.
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So now, when I say that masks work, that social distancing is effective, that we need to stop the spread; people just look me right in the eye and say "If the experts really believed that they wouldn't have promoted massive protest rallies:
So now, when I say that masks work, that social distancing is effective, that we need to stop the spread; people just look me right in the eye and say "If the experts really believed that they wouldn't have promoted massive protest rallies:
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When I say to not to travel, or to avoid eat in restaurants because of the government policy, the people just say "if politicians really believed their own policy they would follow it. But they don't follow it because they don't really believe it."
And they show me this:
When I say to not to travel, or to avoid eat in restaurants because of the government policy, the people just say "if politicians really believed their own policy they would follow it. But they don't follow it because they don't really believe it."
And they show me this:
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It's now looks like the institutions we used to rely on to give us accurate information to make decisions about the policies we want and how to manage ourselves, are not telling us the whole truth because if we had the whole truth we might not pick their preferred policies.
It's now looks like the institutions we used to rely on to give us accurate information to make decisions about the policies we want and how to manage ourselves, are not telling us the whole truth because if we had the whole truth we might not pick their preferred policies.
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People believe, and I understand why, that the institutions we rely on for accurate information are selling them a narrative cobbled together from half-truths, in order to justify decisions and rules that benefit the politics of the woke/media/blue-check industrial complex.
People believe, and I understand why, that the institutions we rely on for accurate information are selling them a narrative cobbled together from half-truths, in order to justify decisions and rules that benefit the politics of the woke/media/blue-check industrial complex.
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What am I supposed to say when someone tells me "this COVID stuff is all just political nonsense meant to benefit whoever's in charge" and then scientists brag about how they are politicizing science?
Why would anyone listen to them?
What am I supposed to say when someone tells me "this COVID stuff is all just political nonsense meant to benefit whoever's in charge" and then scientists brag about how they are politicizing science?
Why would anyone listen to them?
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The woke/media/blue-check industrial complex exchanged truth telling for narrative crafting in a bid to implement their political and moral worldview.
This isn't just The Death of Expertise, It's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.
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The woke/media/blue-check industrial complex exchanged truth telling for narrative crafting in a bid to implement their political and moral worldview.
This isn't just The Death of Expertise, It's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.
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