Liberals Turning Against the Lockdown Left
Michael Fumento
https://www.aier.org/article/liberals-tu...-lockdown-left/
– May 14, 2021 Reading Time: 6 minutes

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Science issues unfortunately sometimes become political issues, the most prominent example of which, as polls show, is “global climate change.” It’s not a flat “I believe; I don’t believe,” as the mainstream media would have you think, but distinctions are clear. Likewise, aspects of Covid-19 have also become politicized, including vaccines but most especially lockdowns and the various mechanisms of anti-social distancing.

The left, including the U.S. mainstream media, has always pushed a hysterical approach to both Covid spread and severity. But chinks in the armor are now appearing as it becomes clear that many want a permanent Covidocracy – lockdown forever and ever, amen.

Writing in the May 4, 2021 Atlantic, “The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown,” Emma Green admits what many of us suspected, including anti-Trumpers, that “For many progressives, extreme vigilance was in part about opposing Donald Trump.” Indeed, a survey that Bill Maher would later cite of American media coverage of the pandemic showed a significant fall-off of the “We’re all gonna die” articles right after the election.

She also gently chides some of her fellow liberals stating, “Even as scientific knowledge of Covid-19 has increased, some progressives have continued to embrace policies and behaviors that aren’t supported by evidence, such as banning access to playgrounds, closing beaches, and refusing to reopen schools for in-person learning.”

Green says this may actually be encouraging a sort of backlash on the right. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Good article.

I have/had an old friend of many years and many shared experiences who I haven't heard from in about a year now. Before-covid, BC, we frequently got together and had lunch and maybe went to an event or two weekly. She's been to my house frequently and I've been to hers. She knows my parents; I know hers. So, in May of last year we hadn't met for some time, and I called her and knowing her Covidfear, I suggested we get our lunches and meet in the park. Sunshine, fresh air and we could stay 6 feet apart. I was actually becoming concerned because she hadn't left her apartment or really gotten out since the Covidfear began. She gave me a lecture about the ethics of wearing a mask to protect other, vulnerable people and we said goodbye without agreeing on a time and place to meet. I haven't heard from her since. Hasn't responded to my overtures.

I couldn't figure out what the problem was at the time, but now I suspect that my stance on mask-wearing was translated into "she won't wear a mask because she believes Trump is a good guy and Biden is a sleaze, and therefore Sanguine is a bad, evil person". And, that's true, I think Trump is a fairly good guy and Biden isn't, but I didn't understand how that is inextricably tied together in the minds(?) of leftists. And, while she was only a nominal leftist BC she has since become convinced that lefties are good guys, watching out for her, and the rest of us are vile, evil people who want her and her kind to die writhing in agony from Covid.