Waivers of Liability
The first Trump campaign rally of the post-COVID era was this past Saturday night. Leading up to it, those on the left who applauded when folks poured into the streets to protest the system, without social distancing or masks, were aghast that the president would dare to hold such an unsafe event. Not just a bit of hypocrisy there.
They also crowed when they saw that those signing up for tickets had to acknowledge a waiver that said they wouldn’t hold the campaign or the venue responsible if they attended and caught the coronavirus. They said that was proof it was an unsafe thing to do.
Apparently those folks have never gone to any sporting event or concert. The disclaimers that appear on such tickets are pretty broad, insulating the venue and the organizer from anything bad that happens to you…from getting hit by a foul ball at a baseball game, to getting food poisoning from concessions. Granted, this was specifically tied to one malady, but the prior waiver that folks no doubt had to check off on before reserving a ticket wasn’t much different. And of course, if they had simply folded it into the standard waiver, those on the left would have claimed the Trump folks were sneaking something by folks.
Hypocrisy is not limited to one side of the political spectrum, of course. But I was taken by the fact that supposedly vast numbers of non-Trump folks reserved tickets and did not use them, so that the crowd would be smaller than expected. They then took credit for it and were applauded for their actions. My guess, however, is that if folks on the right did that, they’d be branded by the left as mind-numbed robots who were infringing on free speech and suppressing individual choice and it would be held up as another example of brainwashing by the Svengali Trump.
Getting pretty weary of this petty stuff on both sides. And they wonder why folks tune out.News/Talk 1540 KXEL · Iowa Politics — Mon. Jun. 22, 2020
