It was a massive country-wide persecution complex. The antimaskers loved to act like they were being persecuted, as if they were freedom fighters, defending the

It was a massive country-wide persecution complex. The antimaskers loved to act like they were being persecuted, as if they were freedom fighters, defending themselves against oppression. Yet, they were the ones out there attacking everyone else who were just trying to be cooperative. And for what? Just to be performatively contrary to the mainstream. COVID's legacy is a massive, sustained, consequence-free civil disobedience campaign, but instead of being organized in service of a goal, it’s just vague anger, belligerence, and contrariness for the sake of contrariness.