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[Chandelier]

'Punching down': Comedian Jon Stewart under fire as mockery falls flat with progressives

www.rawstory.com

400-word article.

AI Summary

• Jon Stewart faced backlash after joking on The Weekly Show about people who still wear masks in progressive workplaces.
• Critics accused him of “punching down” at COVID-cautious and medically vulnerable people.
• Disabled individuals, caregivers, and Long COVID advocates said masking is a necessary health precaution, not a joke.
• Commentators argued that asking why someone masks is invasive and dismissive of disability and chronic illness.
• Stewart was also accused of hypocrisy, given his strong advocacy for 9/11 first responders suffering long-term health effects.

 

[rvallee]

Sometimes I wonder if after all this messaging rejoicing the good news of how "only" vulnerable people were dying of COVID has led to most people just assuming that COVID killed everyone who was vulnerable and therefore there aren't any left.

Which, ooof. But also years of messaging promoting infections as good for health might do that all by itself. In combination, though, yikes.

 

[V.R.T.]

Sometimes I wonder if after all this messaging rejoicing the good news of how "only" vulnerable people were dying of COVID has led to most people just assuming that COVID killed everyone who was vulnerable and therefore there aren't any left.

Which, ooof. But also years of messaging promoting infections as good for health might do that all by itself. In combination, though, yikes.

I keep seeing people saying locking down to protect the vunerable was a mistake. Because people think only ill and disabled people died or got really sick.

They were saying everyone who died who wasn't elderly had 'pre existing conditions'. But when you looked even things like depression counted, so anyone could have pre existing conditions. In The Wire, they call this kind of figure manipulation 'juking the stats'.