For the last year, anyone questioning let alone rejecting CDC/WHO guidance on COVID was vilified as an anti-science crank, to the point of being censored off the internet.
Yet it's now totally common for liberals with no scientific training to go on TV & reject new CDC guidance:
Yet it's now totally common for liberals with no scientific training to go on TV & reject new CDC guidance:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1394604090160730113
All "consensus" should be subject to questioning and dispute. There's nothing wrong with doing it.
But for most of the COVID pandemic, it wasn't allowed - certainly not culturally, and often at all. It's only allowed now that liberals don't like the new CDC guidance on masks.
But for most of the COVID pandemic, it wasn't allowed - certainly not culturally, and often at all. It's only allowed now that liberals don't like the new CDC guidance on masks.
If someone like @morningmika or @maddow or whoever wants to keep wearing masks, that is their right. I have no interest in critiquing that choice.
But if you go on TV and keep defending that choice, it is 100% an anti-vax message: you don't believe the vaccine really works.
But if you go on TV and keep defending that choice, it is 100% an anti-vax message: you don't believe the vaccine really works.
Here's Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy defending his decision to contravene CDC guidance by keeping New Jersey's mask mandate in place even for fully vaccinated people.
Just two months ago, governors who refused to obey CDC guidance were vilified:
Just two months ago, governors who refused to obey CDC guidance were vilified:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1394398670271963145
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