> I don't actually understand why this is considered a meme or rightwing, its always seemed like a reasonable question to me. I mean, yeah, that's the school o

> I don't actually understand why this is considered a meme or rightwing, its always seemed like a reasonable question to me. I mean, yeah, that's the school of Just Asking Questions. It's standard bad faith participation strategy in discussions, you play the role of an unconvinced fence sitter while actually pushing a narrative. In this case, it was that COVID was killing fewer people than it actually was. While for a statistician or a medical practitioner looking to better understand the pandemic will find value in the answer to the question, your average laymen doesn't understand how to apply the difference to arrive at an informed opinion. People parroting this weren't concerned how many people were actually dying of COVID; they wanted to go get their hair cuts and eat out again. A desire for a return to normal is a very... well, normal and human impulse but if it's not time yet, it's not time yet.