You are right. People are affected very differently by lockdown, and that creates (almost by definition) divergent viewpoints. The whole thing is exasperated by

You are right. People are affected very differently by lockdown, and that creates (almost by definition) divergent viewpoints. The whole thing is exasperated by isolation from one another, making opposing viewpoints seem even more alien than usual. News and social media amplify the most obnoxious versions of any position, and we don't have normal contact with normal people to bring us back to earth. That said, covid is being exploited, politically, by some very shady actors. We're already at a boiling point with social media's takeover of politics. We already failed to notice the dead canaries in more politically unstable countries. The arab spring, Myanmar. The hardest part is discerning the emergent malign effects of this from coordinated attacks... for which cambridge analytica is now emblematic. It's quite literally a rage machine, and it is dangerous. The legitimate discussion have been hijacked. The point of many anti-lockdown movements, especially at this point, is the "movement" itself. Lockdown is going to go away. These movements are not.