SUPER-SPREADING SANCTIMONY AT THE SUPER BOWL:

Andrew Cuomo’s hometown paper took a similarly sanctimonious tone. ‘In Tampa, Super Bowl Celebrations Bring Superspreader concerns’, a New York Times headline screamed this morning. Back when Biden won, the paper’s super-spreader concerns were curiously absent: ‘A Rollicking NYC Celebration for Biden’s Win, Well Into the Night’.

So what’s behind the open and naked double-standards being pushed in both corporate and social media? There isn’t some grand diabolical strategy. It’s pretty simple actually. They are allowed to flaunt the rules and change how COVID affects a population based on the social causes they and political lines they espouse — and you aren’t. It is that simple. COVID-19 doesn’t affect racial protests or Democratic victories. It will however kill everyone who attends a football game or has a private gathering in their home.

No one is denying this is a deadly virus worth taking seriously; therein lies the problem with politicized public health experts who wag their fingers at people trying to get out and enjoy an event, but who explain away mass gatherings in the name of social justice. The virus doesn’t care why crowds have gathered. It spreads indiscriminately.

So does hypocrisy. If you are a public person with a byline, or an activist or a politician who ignores COVID in favor of your cause, you deserve to be ridiculed while lecturing others — you deserve to be ignored. Enjoy the parade, Tampa Bay.

Flashbacks:

Fauci resists Republican effort to turn testimony against protesters.

Fauci: There will ‘almost certainly’ be an uptick in COVID-19 cases after Thanksgiving travel.

Media Pushes Narrative that BLM Protests Did Not Contribute to Spike in Coronavirus Cases.

#FactsFirst: Jake Tapper, CNN’s coronavirus double standard on Trump and Biden rallies exposed. Tapper slammed Trump rallies as ‘reckless,’ but was concerned about being a ‘scold’ as Biden supporters hit the streets.

● “The great theme of the Trump years, the one historians will note a century from now, was the failure of America’s expert class. The people who were supposed to know what they were talking about, didn’t.”