Liberal ‘experts’ lied about racism and protesting during COVID — remember?  

Some tweets live in infamy.  

Six years ago this week, NPR shared a link on X — Twitter at the time — to an article by correspondent Bill Chappell, titled “Protesting Racism Versus Risking COVID-19.”  

This was June 2, 2020, in the grips of the pandemic. By that time, Americans had been forced to confront the reality that “15 days to slow the spread” was a lie. Those two weeks had come and gone at the end of March, yet government health advisers had continued to pressure authorities at the federal, state and local level to maintain lockdowns, mask mandates and prohibitions on social gatherings — policies were initially sold to the public as temporary measures that were necessary to give hospitals time to receive an influx of COVID-19 patients.  

By the start of the summer, it had become clear that public health experts would continue to insist on heavy-handed mitigation measures until either case counts crashed on their own or a vaccine became widely available. This meant that in Democratic-controlled municipalities, where it was fashionable to “trust the science,” relevant policymakers would keep lockdowns in place, require masks in all public spaces, and discourage large gatherings — even outdoors.  

Washington, D.C., was once such location. The streets were generally empty. When people did venture outdoors, they were expected to wear masks, even when walking by themselves or engaging in vigorous exercise.  

But then something happened: a black man, George Floyd, died while in police custody after an officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his back for nine minutes. Chauvin would eventually be convicted of second-degree murder. Video footage of Floyd’s death caused a massive public outrage and........

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