All those nurses are just FAKING it
The chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party is encouraging people planning to protest stay-at-home orders imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic to dress like health care workers.
Now why would they do that? Oh yes, of course: to fool onlookers and reporters into thinking health care workers also think we should get out there and infect each other.
Recently, several health care workers around the country have worn their scrubs and medical gear to counterprotest against people calling for states to reopen against the urgings of medical experts.
So the thing to do if you’re a reopener is dress up in pretend scrubs; fakeout!
Ward’s comments come a few days after she questioned the authenticity of a small group of health care workers in Colorado who counterprotested against people calling for the state to reopen.
“EVEN IF these ‘spontaneously’ appearing ppl at protests against govt overreach (sporting the same outfits, postures, & facial expressions) ARE involved in healthcare – when they appeared at rallies, they were actors playing parts #Propaganda #FakeOutrage,” Ward tweeted last week.
I took a brief look at her Twitter and it’s quite the spectacle.
This reminder me of a scene from Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe. It takes place in the court of a local Chinese ruler who tells a non-Confucian that he sees many Confucians. The man replies that there are many people dressed as Confucians, but how many of them are really Confucians? Maybe you should make it illegal to impersonate a Confucian. The local ruler laughs and says he will kill anyone impersonating a Confucian. The next panel shows the people running home, hurriedly casting off their Confucian garb.
So should we dress like militia men and carry large semi-automatic rifles while protesting against reopening or lobbying for continued shutdowns?