George Washington University (where I teach) this week became one of the last major universities to drop its mask mandate.
Many students had long declined to follow the mandate, but the decision was met with relief by many at the school.
Yet, some are livid about the lifting of such mandates in various schools.
One is a professor at the University of British Columbia who has participated in roundtable discussions as an expert with Canadian Prime Minister Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Dr. Amy Tan is a Clinical Associate Professor in Palliative Care and Family Practice at UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary.
She recently issued a blistering attack on those going maskless as being “racist, ableist, and classist.”
The comments raise long-standing concerns that masks have become a vehicle for social and political rather than medical agendas.
Screenshot of a tweet by Dr. Amy Tan published from Feb. 18 2023.
According to media reports , Tan responded to a user who defended labeling non-maskers as “racist.”
The user denounced dropping the mandates and added:
“once again and always – white people, you do not get to say what is or isn’t racist. stop speaking for and over BIPOC.
learn your place, sit down, shut up, and listen to us. your white saviorism is killing us. whiteness is a problem. oof.
(read & listen to James Baldwin! <3)”
Tan appeared to agree and added that “not masking is racist, ableist & classist.” Notably, some experts believe that the mandatory mandates are alarmist.
Recent studies have cast doubts on the efficacy of masks and revealed that even the CDC long harbored doubts on the question. Others continue to challenge those contrary findings as incomplete.
Notably, Tan is not attempting to engage skeptics on the science. Instead she (and others) are attempting to cut off debate by labeling opposing views as revealing a myriad of prejudices. These attacks have largely worked to intimidate many in government, business, media, and academia. Mask efficacy is a debate long suppressed by social media companies and disfavored by many universities. Experts were banned for raising such questions and others labeled conspiracy theorists.
Figures like Tan continue to argue that questioning mask efficacy is to self-identify as a racist, ableist and classist. That is a lot of “ists” for anyone and most academics do not want to risk becoming a target of such attacks. The problem is that the students and the public at large no longer appear to be buying into the mask mandates.
Hopefully, we can still have this long delayed debate at universities without the type of personal, vituperative attacks employed by figures like Tan. If one truly cares about public health, there is nothing to fear from hearing opposing views on the underlying science. People of good faith should be able to disagree on these studies without being allegedly “unmasked” as the Bull Connors of medicine.
Her bio on UBC’s website highlights her work “an advocate for health equity and an anti-racism educator and consultant” with expertise on “culturally-safe and anti-oppressive care with patients and families.” She has been a continuing advocate for mask where both inside and outside buildings.
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i’ve seen amy tan, and holy crap i’d be surprised if she ever takes her mask off.
ANOTHER “professor” who spectacularly failed
the scamdemic IQ test. Academia is staffed by
people dumber than stumps.
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” – George Bernard Shaw
But, Sweet Jesus, what is SHE teaching?
… and those who can’t teach work for the government …
Ashun American.
A study found people who believe in masks think themself less attractive, well actually ugly.
Headline Satire:
“New Study Out Today: A Majority Of Science Studies Support The Claims Of Those Who Pay For Science Studies”
account locked down haha
“once again and always – white people, you do not get to say what is or isn’t racist. stop speaking for and over BIPOC.”
Says the racist BIPOC
The anti-white hatred reflects her extreme insecurity. She doesn’t like who she is and projects that onto people she’s envious of it’s really that simple. She has a sad life.
And yet she’s not afraid to act like a tyrant … seems to be the only role that fits her (and so many others) …
People will be petty tyrants most of the time. It is easier than actually being productive.
WTF is a BIPOC? It is standard practice to say what an unfamiliar acronym is the first time it is mentioned.
Binary Interdimensional Periodic Oscillating Capacitor. I’m not sure why it is used in this sentence like this?
Thanks, attrition.
Oh my god, I played the Turbo Encabulator for a friend. I kept a straight face, he almost made it to the end.
IPOC = Indigenous People of Color — I can’t remember what the “B” stands for though. I totally agree that it is poor writing to not spell out the acronyms in an article the first time they are referenced.
Thank you I’m back!
I personally appreciate the left-wing nuts continuing their masking bullshit. When I am out and about I know anyone wearing a mask is a deranged asshole and I treat them accordingly. The masks eliminate a lot of guesswork.
Its like the blue/pink/purple/green hair, the face and neck tattoos, the facial piercings, especially the oxen nose rings, and the man buns. Warning signs more blatant than the colorful frogs or mushrooms.
You should tell them “you look like an asshole” as you pass by.
My mother used to say: do not touch shit, and it will not stink.
Best ignore them.
But again, who am I to judge.
The new insult of the decade. ” You sound like you took the vaxx!”
Why aren’t people beating the bark off these fruitcakes??
Proof that it is ugly people who want normative mask wearing.
What an ugly and fat democrat this one.
The democrat party is a magnet for these FAT-UGLY bitter skanks !
Bitches like this and the whole woke/liberal/ snowflake shit is a distraction to keep the average American idiot busy arguing. Why do they give this bitch exposure? To distract.
and mock and humiliate just by this idiot dokter’s presence.
I would tell her to choke on a cock, but we all know the only dick she is getting is from an Oscar Meyer package.
Seriously though, choke on a dick you fucken warped cunt. May you develop a glorious case of genital warts on your face and die a miserable death.
I am glad they all showed their asses during the lockdowns and against the resistance as that makes the list easier to develop.
ZFG, out.
P.S. choke on a dick.
a bag of dicks, ZFG.
A diseased donkey dick I believe is the proper phrase here at TBP
Sucking diseased donkey dick leads to blowing yeast infected cum bubbles.
Racist, ableist, classist. Yup. Check, check, check.
She forgot sexist, homophoic, transphobic, islamophobic and against the music of Rush.
I’m all of those things and I demand to be fully represented.
“Against the music of Rush”
Blasphemer!
Burn him!
This Chink can pound sand with her labels. Screw her and her mask.
She should wear a different style of diaper at crotch level to protect us all.
Obviously fucking retards like d0kter Tan never listen to their own bizarre, criminal and psychotic ravings. And the question remains, as brought before; how is it possible this dangerous hysterical communist plant keeps getting press coverage?
It is rather astonishing that a racist mentally incompetent intellectually dim person can now attain a PHD and be allowed to practice medicine. Medical schools used to weed people like this out.
Lol. Another lunatic.
I appreciate you readily identifying yourself as such.
Deport her….
I nave noticed a corelation between myopia and voluntary masking a couple years ago. Not 100%, but exeptions are few.
Another Karen with Kankles…she can call me anything she wants but she better be polite.
Maybe…
These people should source all their
needs from 100% confirmed masked
worker consumer product supply
chains.
Where every task along the way was
done by a certified mask worker.
Once they can’t eat,drive or use power
they might start rethinking the silly.
_______
Can’t you just see this stupid bitch yelling at
the unmasked airline pilot on her flight:
“You fucking racist, you don’t care about my safety “
I say it is the ugly people who prefer masks.
Prove me wrong…
Why are they always fat and stupid looking?
Racist means disagrees with a liberal. Abelest, homophobe, transphobe,. . . all mean disagrees with a liberal.
On a more obvious front; If you are reduced to defending your positions with ad hominem attacks, it is because you have no better argument in support.
Someone hired this nit wit as an educator. That is the real problem here.
Academia is a money laundering racket for Dimocrats
It takes a special level of stupid to think a mask, any mask, can prevent the spread of an airborne pathogen.
CBRN certified protective equipment works for most everything. Don’t plan to enjoy Retardageddon © without one.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respstandards/approvedstandards/scba_cbrn.html
The question now is does (can ) one believe that very same government organization that promulgated the Pestilence?
Retardageddon ©, Copyright Aunt Acid 2023
Professor Denounces Maskless People As “Intelligent, critical thinking and independent’.
We can’t build a compliant zombie socialist state with people like that around!
I hope she continues wearing the mask. Looked like she may have been assualted with an ugly stick.
College degree? HA
a doktah
Who gives a shit what she wants besides itself. Wear a mask if you want, leave us the fuck alone!
Proving beyond all doubt that socialism is a mental disease in need of brain replacement surgery.
I wonder if they realize they can have their brains replaced with old 8-bit computer processors and half-bad memory chips? It would be a major upgrade in mental capabilities for every socialist mentally diseased animal.
TeamLeft must seek out the Asians at the bottom of the bell.
Sweet!
Amy Tan thinks I’m classy!