Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Remy: It’s Magic (Mask Hypocrisy Parody)" video.

@hermanhoppe3773 "Magic Johnsons HIV episode." Yes, MJ tested positive for AIDS, and anybody that didn't want to play with him in the Olympics and get sweated on was some sort of monster, along with everybody that proposed anything like a quarantine (even a sexual one) or "social distancing" in response to a disease that AT THAT TIME had a near 100% death rate (reduced not by a vaccine, but by palliatives, which we're banned for mentioning in the context of Covid). Non of this is meant to rag on Magic (it's impossible to dislike Magic Johnson), but to illustrate that the response to both these epidemics was predicated on politics. In AIDS, the main victim group was a politically favored group, and not enough people were affected to make for much of a power grab. Covid was less discriminate, so the power grab was the only dynamic. So much for "following the experts", because it is obviously the case that the fact that the political radicals control the "experts" paychecks IS relevant, after all.
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@Joe_for_real I didn't catch the South Park reference I took "episode" in the sense of "anecdote" or "experience". I thought you were referring to the actual events. I was contrasting political spin and public policy. The difference between the responses was calculated and tendentious, not natural and organic.
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