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>>12290877
I wasn't trying to mislead, if that's what your getting at. To clear things up, I will restate my original point: people are constantly shamed and harassed for not wearing masks. Despite this, the riots that took place this summer featured throngs of people grouped closely and many of them had no masks on. This is an incredible double standard as there are social distancing and mandatory mask signs everywhere. Why weren't the protestors forced to go home in order to maintain safety and minimize the spread of the virus? Why were many of them allowed to set up anarchist states that lasted for weeks? You will not be hard-pressed to find instances of the media saying that the rising numbers of people getting infected is unacceptable, that people should be 6 feet apart at any and all social gatherings, that if Americans just stayed home everything would turn out all right, that if people going to parties, the beach, bars as you have mentioned, they selfishly put themselves at risk and could kill/infect others.
Yet at the same time, the protests and riots were praised. The media rallied behind those that were marching in the streets very closely to each other, many of them with no mask on, singing in large groups, and more. That sort of behavior put a lot of people at risk, but any public condemnation of it on major news stations (outside of f*x news) hardly exists. Three straight months of doing the exact opposite of what was advised, i.e. staying home and only going out when absolutely necessary, staying 6 feet apart when at any sort of gathering, wearing a mask to protect others from a possible spread of the virus in case you are infected, and more.
Pic related is why I find the response to the coronavirus an extreme case of hypocrisy. There is no way that every last person in that photo was not less at risk than people who go and sit down at Crapplebee's.