So basically six people from the same extended family got together for dinner and the world explodes? Perhaps we looking at this the wrong way?
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| If Birx felt that meeting with her family was dangerous, then she wouldn't have done it. |
Look, I get that there is some hypocrisy going on here. Apparently the guidelines is that you can only have dinner with one other household and apparently the fact that the grandchildren no longer live with the daughter and son-in-law is what makes this a violation. I get that this shows an amazing amount of do as I say, not as I do attitude.
But that is not what bugs me the most about this.
What we really should be looking at isn't that Birx didn't follow her own guidelines as much as we should wonder why "anyone" should follow these guidelines. Because let's be honest, if Birx felt strongly that these restriction were necessary for personal and community safety, then she would have followed the guidance as a matter of fundamental choice. She would have truly believed that it was dangerous to the people she loves the most and not participated over that fear.
But the reality is that she didn't personally fear for the health and safety of her family and she didn't personally feel that the restrictions were something that was medically necessary to secure the health of herself and family. She met with her family, because as a epidemiologist working closely on the Covid task force with pretty much all the information at her fingertips, she didn't feel it necessary to stay in the isolation and resist seeing her family.
She didn't follow the task force recommendations, not because she is a hypocrite, but because she doesn't believe in them. She literally doesn't feel that the restrictions that she pushes are fundamentally necessary, and she proved that by her actions. The actions that should be questioned are not that she met with her family. The actions that should be questioned is why she is spreading fake guidelines to the rest of the country.
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i agree for the most part, but i would argue that the hypocrisy DOES matter. why the fuck are any of us following their public guidelines if they're privately ignoring them?
let's drop the charade, publicly adopt the guidelines of the Great Barrington Declaration, and get back to normal. that would help far more than another $900 BILLION handout.
we're 10 months into a 2 week flatten the curve shutdown. it's time for open revolt - with the hypocrisy of our 'expert leaders' as our guide.
Years from now, when we walk past the graves of the restaurants, shops, and gyms that didn’t make it, will we ask ourselves how we let this happen? Or will we have accepted that we laid down our liberties one day to flatten a curve and never fought to get them back?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/livelihoods-and-liberty-left-in-the-lurch
read the whole thing.
In years to come, as we walk past the graves of loved ones we lost to this pandemic, will we wish that we had been blessed with having a President who possessed the sense and sensitivity to be honest about what our nation really was facing (especially as soon as he himself knew it), and had vigorously advocated, rather than downplayed, stricter methods of mitigation?
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