There sure are a lot of parallels between the Great Barrington Declaration's "focused protection" scam and the school reopeners' contention that we can safely open schools amid unmitigated community spread of covid. Let's count: https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1340761912309547008
1. Funding by right-wing think tanks
2. Claims that parts of the population can be protected even as the virus rips through their communities
3. Plans to protect subgroups that will never be fully implemented, just used as a pretext to demand reopening
2. Claims that parts of the population can be protected even as the virus rips through their communities
3. Plans to protect subgroups that will never be fully implemented, just used as a pretext to demand reopening
4. Cherry-picking evidence
5. Claims that the people most harmed by failing to implement their plan are the poor, PoC, working class
6. An individualistic worldview that fails to anticipate how people are connected to one another, how policies have cascading effects
5. Claims that the people most harmed by failing to implement their plan are the poor, PoC, working class
6. An individualistic worldview that fails to anticipate how people are connected to one another, how policies have cascading effects