Permanent damage to health authorities credibility. The right is seeing this as hypocrisy from the left, they're not buying the idea that oh, it's less dangerous if it's outdoors.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GMcruer and
Second order effects like normalisation of a wide variety of activities. Opening up bars and beaches happened after this.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GMcruer and
There were hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the protests. Hawaii's outbreak is being blamed on it. There's a Minnesota outbreak too. It's only been OK in NYC and DC which there was an extremely strict lockdown that was observed and the numbers were lower...
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GMcruer and
In California, esp. e.g. LA there's a terrible outbreak, and this is weeks after the protests. And it is a racial issue! It is heavy in Hispanic and black communities.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GMcruer and
The absolute biggest contributor is people who are being FORCED TO WORK ECONOMICALLY without adequate PPE. That is the single biggest contributor. But all other social or economic activities where people are in close proximity matter as much.
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I think we basically see eye-to-eye on this. Just a few points I'd add. First, BLM has been willfully misconstrued by the conservative media from the start, so the fact that this persists is not especially notable.
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Replying to @RichardGLolz @GMcruer and
I know! but BLM should have been smart enough to know this would happen. of course they'd be copted, misconstrued. should have pulled back from physical battles earlier Killer Mike said it. Go home. Fill out your sentences. Organize. Plot. Plan. We're in a fucked sit w/ virus
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Yes, the rona sit is very fucked.
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Replying to @RichardGLolz @DanielleFong and
But the BLM protests achieved more than anyone thought possible. We can't possibly know what the cost was, so cost/benefit isn't possible. One other thing I would caution about is the inclination to see BLM as a single thing that could make centralized decisions. It ain't.
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Replying to @RichardGLolz @GMcruer and
you're right but the GIANT caveat is treating this as a historic moment *rather* than a rapidly changing strategic landscape with live players during an extremely active and unprecedented situation during a pandemic. What we do matters a huge amount & BLM people are in denial
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and even if they weren't they're not considering the fact that the apparent hypocrisy of the tactics has been successfully weaponized. more and more people are being dismissed. politically, people who care about black lives *must* recognize this as a problem to deal with it.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @GMcruer and
that problem with these biased defenses is more than that the other side then dismisses us. we get high off our own supply of propaganda. that's the same problem that the right has, with trump watching fox news.
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