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In last week’s column, after months of being stonewalled I finally confronted one of the authors of a “scientific study” that purported to prove that last summer’s BLM riots actually made the Covid pandemic
better. Last year, that study was paraded around like a victorious quarterback atop the shoulders of a cheering media grateful to have “proof” that violating Covid lockdowns is fine as long as you’re BLM.
The crux of the study was that fear of BLM riots kept ordinary folks at home and away from crowded establishments, thus mitigating Covid spread. The paper’s multi-credentialed authors used cell-phone “ping” data to measure foot traffic at bars and restaurants before and during the riots to “prove” that folks were staying home because of BLM.
He said no, but he “knew it was violent.”
Now, I’d gotten to know Lindsay Wagner back in the ’80s (she was affiliated with a leftist org my AP history teacher introduced me to). And I knew, from Lindsay’s own mouth (and from having watched her crappy show as a kid), that as a vegan hippy-dippy peacenik she had specifically instructed the producers to never have her character engage in “aggressive” violence. Two years on the air, and she never socked anyone. Or killed anyone. Her bionics were primarily used to help nuns and orphans; every episode had a moral lesson at the end.