The World’s Most Intelligent Virus

It’s not exactly news at this point that we are beset with a deadly (at least to older people) virus that spreads easily in crowds.  It’s for this reason that we now have enforced social distancing and are strongly encouraged to use face masks in public.

What wasn’t known until recently is that, remarkably, the virus can tell (1) if you want to visit grandma in the hospital or attend your kid’s high school graduation, in which case it will spread like crazy and you must keep your distance (or, frequently, stay home altogether); or (2) if you want to attend an anti-police rally or trash the local monument, in which case it will show Solidarity with the Cause and not spread one little bit!

National Review has the story

It begins this way:

Apparently if you protest for a just cause, your body becomes impervious to the respiratory droplets that spread viral diseases. Or so many liberals seem to argue.

Indeed, no event during the coronavirus crisis has put more Americans in closer proximity to each other than the Black Lives Matter protests. During the first three months of the COVID-19 outbreak, every expert told us that mass gatherings were tantamount to murdering Grandma Dolores. Not long ago, opening a small hair-cuttery was “human sacrifice.” Not long ago, race-baiting leftists argued that Republicans had stopped treating coronavirus as a national emergency once they learned black Americans were dying.

Then came the marches. Science-based absolutism was quickly shelved. Today, liberals are mobilizing to preemptively dismiss the notion that Black Lives Matters protests could possibly trigger a spike in cases.

The next line is a real knockout:

New York mayor Bill De Blasio, who’s ineptly presided over the epicenter of the disease, is instructing city contact tracers not to ask infected New Yorkers if they attended marches or rallies.

Got that?  The Left has been yelling at ten trillion decibels that we conservatives need to become more curious, more open to new information, and more willing to adopt “evidence-based” this or that.  But when it comes to the (heretofore) essential task of contact tracing, and anti-police zealots are involved, the search for evidence morphs into “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

This is enough to give hypocrisy a bad name.