RE: Health advocates do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission
June 7, 2020 at 1:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2020 at 1:29 am by Agnostico.)
(June 6, 2020 at 8:28 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: 1. The issue is that George Floyd's death was part of a larger trend of police killing innocent people, with a disproportionate number of non-whites being affected, and that some serious reform is needed. This is an insanely well-documented trend.
2. As I've mentioned before, the only way you can say something like this is that Australia did a damn good job at stopping the spread of COVID early on. I live in a nation where the federal government is taking an alarmingly laissez-faire attitude towards the pandemic, and now we have more deaths and more cases than any other country.
3. Yes, they have been loosening their standards for social distancing a bit, and it's not just limited to protests. As I've mentioned before, restrictions are slowly being lifted worldwide, including Australia, a point that I can't help but notice you NEVER respond to. And why specifically defend these protests? Because police brutality is a big fucking issue, there's a long history of people abusing science to fuck with minorities which many scientists now want to avoid, and, crucially, they've gone out of their way to devote an entire section of the letter to mitigating the potential spread of the virus.
4. The seeming hypocrisy is because, unlike you, they actually have a sense of which types of gatherings are more important. There's a difference between protesting against your people getting killed and protesting the fact that you can't legally do shit like hang out at a crowded beach during a pandemic with a non-negligible death rate, and you can yell that more people are going to die in Australia from the lockdown than the virus itself all you want, and that doesn't mean a fucking thing because, in terms of major countries, that is actually an aberration from the larger trend.
5. That is specifically referring to the Anti-lockdown protests, not gatherings in general. And if you want to know what the connection between the protests and white nationalism, well, here you go.
6. While the "killing millions" is a bit of stretch, I can't rule out the possibility of a second lockdown or a second wave.
7. The double standard is because, well, See #4. Or maybe you can't tell the difference between protesting police killing you with impunity (and, yes, Chauvin has been charged with murder, and the fact that that's not the default reaction of police departments to incidents like this is a big reason for the protests) and just fulfilling hedonistic desires.
8. You can allow the rest. That doesn't necessarily mean you should. Hence why, in the real world, lockdowns are slowly loosening and not just ending full stop.
Ye u guys have a really good sense of moral superiority thats for sure. Ideologically driven
Kill grannies from riots is fine. But im a murderer if i drive my car or go fishing
This systemic racism doesn't exist in Australia, just virtue signalling lefties who go nuts at people who disagree
I utter what Rowan Dean says here but with out the anger.
Ive never seen him so fired up but he echoes the feelings of the majority in Australians
So for every death that occurs from allowing these protests the blood is on the hands of the state premiers
On the other hand if there is little change in deaths the blood is on the hands of the state premiers for all the deaths and livelyhoods lost due to lockdown