If you don't wear a mask and social distance, you're a reckless douchebag. Change my mind.

I hear what you are saying but I think given the magnitude of the crisis, a coordinated national effort would have been the appropriate move.  When this pandemic started, US citizens were making masks by cutting t-shirts including me.  The federal government did not take the virus all that seriously and a a result, the death toll has been much greater than it should have been.  I agree with the comments about republican senators and other people at the ACB gathering.  They all must either have room temperature IQs or their pride/machismo is clouding their judgement.  I do not think anything will change unless someone affiliated with the administration/congress dies.

At least in NYC, the majority of protesters wore masks. And NYC reported no increase in COVID as a result of the protests when they were in full force through June and July.

So for one, De Blasio told Covid contract tracers not to ask positive cases if they’d attended BLM protests. Early on before the protests even started NYC forced nursing homes to admit COVID positive patients and now seems to be beating around the bush with regard to releasing an accurate record of how many deaths that decision caused. So excuse me if I don't completely take their account at face value when we already know for a fact they have at least 2x the number dead of the next highest state in terms of total fatalities.

Just because there was no reported increase doesn't mean there wasn't one. But it is worth noting that the majority of people taking part in protests I'd safely bet are under the age of 70 (can't say as much for the nursing homes sadly), so they would have a >99% survival rate even if they did contract it.

I remember when I was told I couldn’t gather in groups at all due to “science”. Businesses had to be closed or operating at extremely limited capacity due to “science”. Religious services went out the door. People that like myself who put our lives on hold to follow the laws were mocked when thousand person protests were allowed to go. It was a slap in the face to small business owners. The case numbers not changing only makes it seem even more that such restrictions were political and put in bad faith. People also seem to have forgotten that Fauci told Americans not to wear a mask. I remember at the time calling BS and saying to my family that Fauci and the CDC was covering up a lack of masks. Turns out a few months later I was right. Fauci our head “scientist” lied to the American people so that there wouldn’t be a shortage. Who asked him to involve himself in supply chain issues? He’s supposed to communicate to the American people the severity of the disease. The media however has quietly ignored this fact and thrown the blame on Trump. Now the same “science” people are turning into anti-vaxxers simply because Trump is pushing for a vaccine. Mind you Fauci has repeatedly reiterated that there is specific protocol in place to ensure safety and that vaccine approval will not be politicized. But that doesn’t matter even to the people who did regard Fauci. He’s a doctor so long as what he says goes along with the agenda of keeping the country locked down to oblivion.  Otherwise, ignore what he said.

Now don’t get me wrong. I wear a mask and try to social distance (admittedly not always feasible) still because I have enough common sense to comprehend how a virus would spread. But I’m not going to call the average uneducated American a selfish brat. I wholeheartedly disagree with what they’re doing, but realized that science has been made a complete mockery of. Both the left and GOP are at fault in their own ways. Realized I criticized the left more above s now GOP time. I was completely disappointed with the ABC rose garden celebration . That too was reckless and a slap to the face. These people are supposedly intelligent senators. They should be smart enough to know how viruses spread. I hold a higher standard to them than the average uneducated American.