Never forget June 5 the day the elites shattered Americas trust

Every year for the last six, we’ve commemorated the key dates of the COVID-19 saga.March 11, when the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus to be a global pandemic.March 13, when the US government declared a nationwide emergency and we started hearing about “two weeks to flatten the curve.”March 16, the day New York City closed its schools and locked down most businesses.The standard timeline, though, obscures some of the anniversaries that we urgently must remember.On May 26, with New York City and many states still in lockdown mode, the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis began in earnest.The protests swelled and many devolved into riots, spreading throughout the country.By May 28, after the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station was set on fire, Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz mobilized the state’s National Guard.On June 1, the looting and rioting had gotten so bad in New York City that Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed a curfew.And on that same day, health officials and infectious disease experts were quietly gathering signatures on an “Open Letter Advocating for an Anti-Racist Public Health Response to Demonstrations Against Systemic Injustice Occurring During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” imploring Americans to ignore the lockdown orders — in order to join the George Floyd demonstrations.On June 5, when CNN published that letter, it bore the names and carried the imprimatur of more than 1,200 medical professionals.“White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,” they lectured us.That’s why, “as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings” — read: violent protests — “as risky for COVID-19 transmission.

We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States.”Extra galling, the letter made a point to condemn a protest in Lansing, Mich.— ...