{"id":8694,"date":"2020-06-16T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/if-its-ok-to-protest-how-can-you-ban-funerals\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:41:00","slug":"if-its-ok-to-protest-how-can-you-ban-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-its-ok-to-protest-how-can-you-ban-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"#If it\u2019s OK to protest, how can you ban funerals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#If it\u2019s OK to protest, how can you ban funerals?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 15, 2020 |<\/span> 8:41pm <\/p>\n

\n This week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had big news<\/a> \u2014 the city is opening up its iconic Lakefront Trail after months of closing it off as part of a COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n

That Lightfoot kept the trail closed even after Chicago had experienced large-scale Black Lives Matter marches \u2014 thousands just last weekend during the \u201cDrag March for Change\u201d \u2014 is one small instance of the flagrant social<\/a>-distancing hypocrisy across the country in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s OK for throngs of people to pack the streets and shout and chant to protest the death of \u00adGeorge Floyd, it also ought to be permissible for someone to ride a bike along the lakeside while keeping to himself or herself. In fact, one involves sustained interaction with other people, and perhaps fights with the police, while the other is a solitary activity, or one undertaken with a friend or a spouse.<\/p>\n

Yet Lightfoot welcomed the protesters \u2014 \u201cwe want people to come and express their passion,\u201d she said \u2014 and still kept the trail shuttered until recently.<\/p>\n

Many of the same officials who were most zealous in locking down their states and cities instantly made an exception for Black Lives Matter protests. Their rigidity became laxity in a blink of an eye. Their metric for reopening wasn\u2019t the federal guidelines or any other public-health measure, but the wokeness of the activity in question.<\/p>\n

Visiting the death bed of a loved one with COVID-19? Absolutely not. Having a proper funeral? No way. Gathering more than about 10 people at a graveside? No one should be allowed to put the public at risk in such a way.<\/p>\n

Bringing thousands of strangers to march together for hours in spontaneous, disorderly groups? Thank you for your commitment to positive change.<\/p>\n

Attending a church service? Well, maybe in a couple of months. Holding a struggle session with religious trapp<\/a>ings where people confess their racism and vow to work to defund the police? Please, let\u2019s have more.<\/p>\n

The wholly unserious governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, professed to be deeply disturbed by a protest against her arbitrary lockdown rules, even though it largely consisted of people driving around the state capitol in their cars. She spun nightmare scenarios of a spike in cases. That didn\u2019t stop her from joining an anti-police-brutality march with hundreds of nonsocially distanced people, explaining that it was \u201can important moment to show my support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Virtue-signaling is now an essential activity in Michigan.<\/p>\n

To believe the leaders of Blue America, SARS-CoV-2 is the first virus in human history to have a social conscience<\/a> \u2014 virulent enough in the ordinary course of events to justify the most restrictive social controls; not such a big deal if it might get in the way of marches for social justice.<\/p>\n

The likes of Mayor Bill de Blasio have justified the different standards by arguing that fighting racism is important. Well, so is mourning your dead, keeping your business from being ground to dust and worshiping your God. It\u2019s a sign of a ludicrously blinkered worldview to believe that a protest march deserves more consideration than these other elemental human needs.<\/p>\n

Another argument is that the protesters are willing to put their health on the line for their cause, a sign of their deep-felt devotion to their cause. But until recently, it was said that anyone going outside wasn\u2019t just endangering himself, but the most vulnerable people in our communities. Why wouldn\u2019t that be true of the Black Lives Matter marches, too?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect consistency \u2014 or even a serious attempt at it. More than 1,000 public-health experts signed a letter calling the protests \u201cvital to the national public health,\u201d thus immolating their credibility on a pyre of motivated reasoning. It\u2019s social distancing for people and activities they find \u00aduncongenial \u2014 and different rules for their ideological allies.<\/p>\n

What a contemptible betrayal of the public trust.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RichLowry <\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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