This cadre of doctors and co. believe anyone who signed #GreatBarringtonDeclaration are worthy of scorn, even if a strong left-liberal Professor/sometimes Administrator, program coordinator, rationalist, and global do-gooder, invested in human and civil rights & the Humanities.
It's sad to see such stereotyping from people who also support going outside of normal legal or other usual institutional University protocols and procedures to punch down at graduate students in medicine with whom they disagree.
That's shameful.
And accused of "wanting a safe space" (nothing could be further for the truth), this coward @19joho (Dr. Jonathan Howard) blocked me for the below statement.
Methinks thou doth protest too much.
The "offensive" Tweet:
That's disturbed. Especially from a Psychiatrist who should not take pot shots at people, call them "scared," and block when they say, "no, I am not scared at all and am engaging with you."
Was it because I was Jewish, a liberal, in Humanities? What shattered that "type"?
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My cynical read on this is that they are entering an election cycle and this has been totally damaging to Democrats in particular (although plenty of condemnation to go around, especially to Trump too), and that while they are saying better things, it's rings mainly hollow...
..so I don't find it moving or reassuring; I see low self-reflection, the US border is still closed, & until @CDCgov recommends against their most damaging policies (masks, remote school/work, hypervigilence, over-testing before routine events, vax mandates), these will continue.
In short, I see electoral harm reduction, not public health-based harm reduction, let alone contrition, and most saliently no policies in place to protect vulnerable areas from future pandemic overreactions.
Look at any California newspaper today: we are still told to be wary.
Fauci now says the US needs to "move on" from the COVID virus, yet countless restrictions and changes to our normal lives remain in regions like California.
Many people on Team Reality are not in those impacted areas and indeed are moving on... 🧵
...but by not maintaining a coalition of resistance and information sharing, when there is ZERO assurance that restrictions & absurdities will not reoccur - in other people's areas or mine, plus all of the fallout still in place - we are sitting ducks.
So I will keep speaking.
It's the same old story that those who can afford to live in the land of the lotus eaters leave those still in the trenches to do all of the work.
Do people need breaks? Yes of course!
But to create effective resistance movements, you do need to maintain your presence & voice.
The last thing I heard from my spouse today as he walked out the door was, "I don't care what you think, but a lot of younger people did in fact die from COVID, including recently."
I hadn't said a word. I was just sitting there grading. We hadn't talked about COVID in weeks. 🤷
Am I indicting him? No. I just am impressed by his deeply ideological commitment to talking to whatever newspaper article had just set him off and to that level of shadowboxing. He isn't even a coronaphobe.
He was probably pissed off that Trump wasn't arrested.
Sorry to share but there is something important about this all, in my view. I imagine it must be playing out in many ways amongst people across the US and that this is just one manifestation, like a fractal, of a larger phenomenon.