CNN’s Pamela Brown Scorns Comparisons Between Covid Requirements and Nazi Germany: ‘Not In the Same Universe Whatsoever as Public Health Measures’

(Mediaite)

CNN anchor Pamela Brown strongly rebuked Republican lawmakers and public figures who have compared Covid masking and vaccine requirements to the Holocaust, noting that “the deaths of 6 million Jews should not be a punchline or a way to rally supporters.”

“For the record, it is profoundly disrespectful to the memories of survivors and the suffering of those who were killed to equate the Holocaust to anything,” Brown said on Saturday, noting that it was International Holocaust Remembrance Day earlier this week. “But that does not stop mostly Republican lawmakers and public figures from trying to compare what is going on right now to this horrible time in human history.”

Brown then listed examples of opponents of Covid vaccine and masking requirements invoking the Holocaust.

She began by noting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s assertion that Covid vaccine requirements are a sign of “turnkey totalitarianism” and that “even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”

Kennedy’s remark was met with swift backlash and he later issued an apology.