Even looking at States as a whole misses quite a bit. Missouri is an example, restrictions in St. Louis should be a bit stricter than they are in KC, there is just a bit more risk in St. Louis than KC.
This is still flawed logic, it's the same logic that assumed Florida was going to blow up like crazy because of Spring Break. If St. Louis opens up more than KC, I'm not going to drive across the state just to shop at the stores that St. Louis opened vs KC.
Those people were always able to travel and areas were never completely shutdown. What's the difference between spreading it at Target and spreading it at a business that was recently opened. That risk was always there.
Sure, risk goes up, but it's also naive to think that people weren't already doing non-essential errands. I think you'd be surprised how many are out at places like Target, Wal-Mart, Costco, etc. shopping for non-essential items. It's not like people were only going out for food and then returning home and not going out. And the group of people doing that, would still continue to do so when stuff is opened up.
Yet if you look at the experience in every place that has relaxed measures without strictly meeting these criteria, they’ve continued to see decline in disease burden simultaneous with opening their economies. Hospitalizations in Georgia were down 38% three weeks after relaxing measures. The media was ready to pounce on the governors of Georgia, Texas and Florida for “gambling lives”. But it’s been crickets in the weeks after.
It really is. It's why the body positivity movement was always dangerous. While people shouldn't be mean to each other, we shouldn't convince ourselves that unhealthy bodies are actually healthy. We should be encouraging healthy behaviors and healthy bodies in positive ways.
With that video I think this was always inevitable. Unfortunately, there are always bad actors in these things. You even have blue check marks on twitter saying to burn it all down, just crazy.
The video of his death is sickening, saddening and infuriating. Honestly, those words probably don’t do justice to the situation.
I saw that this morning and, to be fair, even CNN mentioned in their coverage that the crew was behind the police line and were asked to move to the other side of the line. They were only arrested because they refused to comply with police orders on where they could and could not film from. CNN either wants to make this about the fact that the reporter was black or that they were just journalism-ing, but the crew was in the wrong and they were released almost immediately. Shame on CNN for taking away from the real stories in Minneapolis to push this false narrative.
Yeah, I'm sure there was somewhat of a valid reasoning, but man the leaders of Minnesota have to understand how that looks. The first arrest in all of this was a reporter, that's just amazing to me. Even if they are staying in a cleared area that they should not be in, you have to do everything you can to move them without arresting them because this just makes it look worse for them.
I don't think this type of issue ever gets resolved until you get the majority of good cops speaking out about things like this and intervening when possible instead of standing behind the "brotherhood" in blue. I don't care whether you think that good cops make up 9% of the police force, 90% or 99%, until good cops find this type of behavior unacceptable and do something about it we're never going to get past these racially motivated brutality issues. That means beat cops holding their peer accountable all the way up to police administrations (that includes Chiefs of Police) holding their own cops accountable to the same standard of conducts they apply to the general population. Had a civilian done something like this to another civilian, charges would have already been filed, even if they were later reduced. This cop, and the cops at the scene who allowed him to do this, should be in jail right now awaiting a bond hearing. I don't know if it would have stopped any or all of this senseless rioting and looting, but that doesn't change the fact that it is the right thing to do. This was an extra-judicial execution, plain and simple, and nothing that happened prior to what we see in the video footage excuses that.
You're assuming they didn't, and the way CNN is pushing this story I don't know that you can justify that kind of an assumption.
Yeah, and maybe I'll be wrong with more evidence. I just have a hard time giving them the benefit of the doubt right now. If they made it perfectly clear through live tv, it would've helped. Just a crazy situation.
