Thread by @Neoavatara

So, from my friend @haroldpollack and Lindsey Leninger. Good piece, I recommend.

I do have...comments (don't I always?).

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

100%: "A key piece of our professional training involves identifying and addressing the blind spots caused by our beliefs...It’s crucial to do this if we want to build effective partnerships with communities and cultures that differ from our own."

"Most Republicans support mask-wearing and other protective measures. The social capital and deep traditions of service within religious communities are powerful public health assets, as are defining conservative values of personal responsibility."

"Our training reminds us that winning people, through relationships and engagement, is more important than winning arguments on Twitter or TV. We must build and sustain these relationships for the long haul. In the fight against covid-19, and beyond, we’re going to need them.""

Good piece, except it certainly ignores major issues.

First, there were some protests where easily less than half of protesters did NOT wear masks. This was especially true in MN.

Another: Atlanta. Here are just a few pictures. Less than half of people were wearing them.

It has been a common statement that BLM protesters wore masks, but that was AFTER criticism started, not at the beginning. At the beginning, first several weeks in fact, police did nothing about protests where most people did not wear masks. That did change by the end of June.

Third, the credibility of experts was more than just partisan. Early in the epidemic, leaders such as Fauci and even politicians like Trump, Cuomo, and Pelosi talked DOWN the use of masks. Then, when we finally admitted that was wrong, tens of thousands were already dead.

Even at this late date, we have not admitted the role that transportation hubs, like the New York City subway, played in seeding places like New York, or how keeping the NYC airports open seeded the rest of the country.

To compound this, liberals seem to be willing to make exceptions when it is convenient. They are ok with strict restrictions on religious groups (see Churches in CA, Jewish groups in NY) but willing to ignore the same when it is in their interest (The George Floyd funerals).

We have Trump behaving badly, and getting deserved blame. But when we call out Nancy Pelosi for going to a hair salon without a mask...some how the Left views THAT as unfair, and that she must have been tricked into...not wearing a mask.

And lastly, there are vaccines. If the liberal push back on vaccines isn't evidence that Left wing conspiracy theories can also result in deaths, nothing is. The TDS in regards to vaccines IS going to cause people to die.

https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1315619514252492800?s=20

Very few on the Left have admitted that this could result in many deaths. That, too, is a real, not imagined, double standard.

Until we call balls and strikes both ways, fairly, none of this can be solved, because nobody has the credibility to be believed consistently.