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> How did masks ever get conflated with “freedom” anyway. The Republican Party, Trump, and Fox News did that deliberately because Trump early on chose to downp
by munificent 6y ago
> How did masks ever get conflated with “freedom” anyway.
The Republican Party, Trump, and Fox News did that deliberately because Trump early on chose to downplay the virus and response to it. Backtracking on that would have made Trump lose face and harmed the Republican brand in an election year, so instead they chose to politicize it and double-down on not wearing masks.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoWeren’t all of our politicians downplaying it initially? I remember “come on down to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year celebration” and that definitely wasn’t Trump, who at that moment was attempting a travel ban on China.