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This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of everyday people

This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of everyday people about elites ignoring the rules they set for the rest of us. These everyday people were then mobilized to fight for the rights of factory owners, logistics companies and other large corporations to murder their workers with a policy of “let ’er rip.”

VagueMag 3y ago
The idea that continuing with life as normal -- especially various forms of essential social contact and economic activity -- amounts to "murdering workers" when a somewhat bad respiratory virus is going around was one of the most risible bits of nonsense pushed into widespread adoption during the COVID response. Just because Doctorow may not mind extended social isolation with only his computer to keep him company, does not mean that everyone else was somehow uninformed if they weren't agitating for the same restrictions to be applied to themselves. Life is more than the pathologically assiduous avoidance of death.

This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of every­day people

This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of every­day people

This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of everyday people

This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal. > The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of everyday people