It’s been a while, but one of my conservative contacts finally sent some toxic email. Rather than ripping apart as is my wont, I’m going to take this series of cartoons and explain why each is toxic in separate, daily posts.
To the right is the only one that made me laugh.
So the first that annoyed me involves the deliberate mis-statement of science.
But, until the recent advent of the delta variant, a vaccination trumped all else:
The NBA and the Players Association agreed to change their health and safety protocol for those within the league who have received their full COVID-19 vaccine, according to ESPN.
The changes, per the report, will apply to anyone who is “two weeks past their final dose” and for “any team where 85% of players and 85% of staff are fully vaccinated.” The NBA and NBPA sent a memo with the new protocols to teams on Wednesday night. [Yahoo! Sports]
I didn’t see any recent changes, but an exacting account of the rules isn’t really the issue here, since this is almost certainly a couple of months old. The real point of this picture is to encourage disdain and distrust for science. Never mind the actual rules and facts on the ground, this is the sort of propaganda that encourages folks to stick their noses in the air and practice their haughty My common-sense is better than your science! pose.
It’s crap like this that gets people killed, injured, and crippled.
If my conservative reader is offended at my skepticism concerning the superiority of their common-sense, I suggest they consult a bit of history which happens to be most entertaining: Nuts! (2016).
