Quote (Thor123422 @ 7 Jun 2020 06:42)
Timing matters. The conservative protests happened during the upswing of the pandemic, when we were still seriously fighting in many places and still totally closed down. The number of cases are on the downswing now even while we are opening back up. We are in a less risky time now and so protests are held to a more lax standard.
That would be a valid point if the liberal side hadnt been arguing for exactly the opposite for literally weeks and weeks (and up until very recently!) when Trump and certain governors were pushing to reopen.
For weeks, their line of reasoning was "we still have over 20k new cases per day, this is too soon to reopen, we're risking a second wave, dont you understand the nature of exponential growth, why are you putting the lives of others on the line with your reckless, selfish behavior" etc.
And then, all those concerns which the liberal side was vehemently arguing for are supposed to be outdated or irrelevant almost overnight? That's just not plausible.
And just for the record, before you waste your time with a stupid counterargument: in terms of the infection risk, there is a huge difference between what the right-leaning anti-corona protesters were calling for (allow workplaces, stores, schools to reopen with safety guidelines in place) versus what these same experts are suddenly supporting now (i.e. shoving tens of thousands of people into tightly packed places with absolutely no distance between each other).
This blatant double standard is just too glaring, no amount of mental gymnastics can conceal it.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jun 7 2020 08:33am