Bill deBlasio Covid 19 Hypocrite

 
From March to late May New York City had covid19 testing guidance that said 'test if you have symptoms'. That guidance was changed in early June to 'everybody should test'. 

It is about two weeks since the guidance was changed and Mayor of NY City, Bill deBlasio hasn't been tested.  Also, he has symptoms. 


His office put out a public announcement that basically says, 'he doesn't feel like it'.  

This is a pretty straightforward case of hypocrisy.  I doubt it has much effect however because deBlasio was widely regarded as a stubborn jerk before this.  The second image shows a protest at the Mayor's official residence on June 2.

I will admit that one of the justifications for 'everybody getting tested' in NYC is to facilitate tracking contacts which in the case of deBlasio is essentially a futile mission given the thousands of anonymous contacts he has had in the past few days. 



First image is deBlasio at a protest on 14 June.

Image and article from The Gothamist  is here.

Police Defunding for you but not for me

Natalie Martinez is the President of the Los Angeles City Council. She recently gave a speech advocating substantially reduced funding for the LA Police.   

For several months, Martinez had requested 24/7 protection at her home. The police provided it, for a while with round the clock stationing and later with some stationing and some frequent patrols.

I would be inclined to give Martinez a break on calling it hypocrisy based on a change in her policy but, as it turned out, she called off the round the clock protection when the situation was brought to her attention and also said that the protection was due to a security threat. The LA PD indicated that they had no information regarding the threat. Thus, I'll have to call hypocrisy and better yet, as a case of self correcting hypocrisy.

First image is from a Martinez press release.

The second image is from the article in Daily Wire.

Daily Wire story is here.

Could the Grim Reeper a Hypocrit

 
 In Florida there is a lawyer named, Daniel Uhlfeder who is the principle of the eponymous law firm of DWUhlfederLaw.  


In early May, Daniel dressed as the Grim Reeper at a Florida beach to warn or possibly predict deaths from congregated in groups.


In June, the same fellow attended a George Floyd protest, where he was masked but most people were not.



This information comes from his tweet stream.



Since he wore his mask at the second event, he could say he was doing his social distancing and not responsible for others. Or he could say that the necessity of the second event outweighed the need to keep social distancing. Or he could say he changed his mind about social distancing.



In any case, I don't think this makes him a hypocrite. It just makes him look silly (but maybe he got clients in the second event).


Grim Reeper tweet is here. 


Tweet from protest is here.