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Suddenly, public health officials say social justice matters more than social distance

Dan Diamond
Politico
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 07:20 UTC
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For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19 — stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings.

Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It's time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.

"We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus," Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. "In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus."

"The injustice that's evident to everyone right now needs to be addressed," Abraar Karan, a Brigham and Women's Hospital physician who's exhorted coronavirus experts to amplify the protests' anti-racist message, told me. "While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn't going to stop #covid19 either," he wrote on Twitter this week.

It's a message echoed by media outlets and some of the most prominent public health experts in America, like former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden, who loudly warned against efforts to rush reopening but is now supportive of mass protests. Their claim: If we don't address racial inequality, it'll be that much harder to fight Covid-19. There's also evidence that the virus doesn't spread easily outdoors, especially if people wear masks.
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Antifa domestic terrorists take over 6 square block section in Seattle - set up security watch - call for armed volunteers

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:30 UTC
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Free Capitol Hill zone in Seattle, Washington.

This is your future with no police.

Democrats want to defund the police. But don't worry Antifa will defend you — for a price.

Comment: This is not going to end well. How can it end with anything other than a standoff between the revolutionary LARPers and the Feds?

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Brick Wall

No, Sweden has not changed its mind about lockdown


Spiked
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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Our fanatically pro-lockdown media keep spreading fake news about Sweden.

Sweden's chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, has admitted to making some mistakes over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. His acknowledgement that Sweden's death toll was 'too high' has been seized on by our fervently pro-lockdown media as a sign that Sweden's more relaxed strategy has failed.

'Sweden's controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths', reports the BBC. 'Swedish expert admits country should have had tighter coronavirus controls', says the Financial Times - a newspaper recently criticised for its botched and misleading graphs of Covid deaths. Tegnell's words were framed in a similar way by reports from Sky News, the Telegraph, and many others.

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Ambulance

Driver plows through BLM protesters in Indianapolis, then makes a run for it


RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:48 UTC
Driver hits BLM protesters
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Stomach-wrenching video has captured a woman driving her minivan through a group of protesters in Indianapolis on the city's 11th straight day of anti-racism and police brutality protests in the wake of George Floyd's death.

The group of about 50 protesters was in the downtown Monument Circle area when a municipal truck arrived to take down barricades but was blocked by the protesters for a time. The minivan driver went to drive around the truck, struck several protesters and accelerated away from the scene, as captured in eyewitness video from the incident.

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Fire

Best of the Web: 'People are just f***ing lawless right now' - Chicago's aldermen plead with mayor to protect their communities from bands of armed looters

Heather Cherone & Paris Schutz
WTTW News
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:22 UTC
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© (Hugo Balta / WTTW News)A chaotic scene in Chicago on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
As unrest swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.

WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor's office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city's response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.

While one alderman wept, others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.

The call provides a snapshot into the city's response as of midday on Sunday to the most widespread and damaging unrest since the uprising after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

The recording begins with Ald. Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.

"It's like, what are we going to have left in our community?" Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself. "Nothing."

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Bad Guys

BLM UK crowdfunds £700,000, but do donors know the real ambitions of these radical activists?

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:23 UTC
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© Getty Images/In Pictures/Barry Lewis7th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom
The British group doesn't just want to eradicate racism - it includes the end of imperialism, capitalism and the police in its list of revolutionary aims. But it doesn't offer any clue as to what it would replace them with.

As the crowdfunding target of £700,000 for the UK offshoot of Black Lives Matter (aka UKBLM) was reached today, after just six days, you have to wonder: do those generous folk who've donated their hard-earned cash actually know where their money is going?

Because UKBLM is an all-flavours-of-liberal-grievance sorta outfit. A hotch-potch of causes hiding behind a big helping of anti-racism. And sure, what reasonable person would disagree with efforts to have equality be the norm across all communities? But UKBLM goes further in the struggle it imagines itself facing. A lot further.

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Ambulance

Best of the Web: As woke world protests 'systemic racism' in the USA, Black-on-Black murders break 60-year-old record in Chicago

Tom Schuba, Sam Charles & Matthew Hendrickson
Chicago Sun-Times
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:21 UTC
"We've never seen anything like it, at all," said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
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© Chicago Sun-Times
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.

A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.

A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.

A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.

While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd's murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab's data doesn't go back further than 1961.

Comment: And that was after the deadliest ever Memorial Weekend in Chicago, just the weekend before this record deadly weekend.

It's as if the riots/woke outrage empowered Blacks to kill more Blacks?

In any event, mayhem is spreading/intensifying from Democrat-controlled plantations/cities.

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Che Guevara

Seattle residents don bulletproof vests as police yield precinct to control of Antifa & BLM

Esmy Jimenez & Isolde Raftery
kuow.org
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:46 UTC
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The Seattle Police Department announced Monday afternoon that the barricade near the East Precinct -- where officers have used pepper spray, tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators for eight days -- would be removed.

During a press briefing, Police Chief Carmen Best said Seattle Police would try something new.

"We're not going to evacuate or abandon the East Precinct," she said. "We will be hardening the East Precinct facility by boarding up the exterior windows, and applying fire retardant to the building exterior and installing fencing."


Comment: They've abandoned the East Precinct.


Best said demonstrators should be able to walk freely around Capitol Hill.

"This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation," she said.

Comment: That's the media narrative of what's going down in Seattle.

Here's a more accurate version:



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White residents wash black priests' feet during George Floyd vigil in Cary, NC


RT
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:30 UTC
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© Twitter / Ian Miles Cheong; @stillgray
Several white locals washed the feet of black pastors during a prayer for George Floyd in North Carolina, invoking a religious rite that sparked a flurry of divisive comments online.

The ritual, which was organized by pastors Faith and Soboma Wokoma in Cary, North Carolina, was part of a prayer walk for black Minnesota man George Floyd, who died in police custody in late May.

Protesters, which included Black Lives Matter activists, first observed eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence to mark the length of time that a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd's neck before he died.

In addition to the silent commemoration, widely shared photos show what appears to be a group of white police officers and other white attendees kneeling before a number of priests, washing their feet in buckets.

Comment: These are the types of acts that are contributing to the death of the liberal ideal.

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Bullseye

Liberalism won when it promised that no free man has to bow down to another. Cops prostrating for #BLM mobs are killing it

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:02 UTC
I can't breathe, George Floyd protests
© Getty Images / Samuel Corum
Forget liberty and the sanctity of the individual. Police chiefs prostrating themselves before mobs seeking absolution for the sins of their race doesn't heal divisions; it further fans the destructive flames of identity politics.

Liberalism, the philosophy that has ruled much of the world since the Age of Enlightenment, appears to be in its death throes, much to the delight of the anarchists and left-wingers burning down properties and toppling statues from Bristol to Minneapolis, and London to New York.

Some political ideologies are harder to pin down than others, with perhaps those of the "middle ground" the most ephemeral of all. "Liberalism" is an extraordinarily broad term used to cover a variety of political and economic policies spanning the right-left spectrum.

In the West, it can be used as a compliment or a pejorative depending on the context and there seems to be no clearly demarcated overarching philosophy it applies to. However, there always seemed to be one factor that was, for the most part, agreed upon when it came to liberalism: that every person was an individual and should be treated as such.
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