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Our country handled the pandemic nearly the same as other developed countries, but none of them have had such an extreme reaction. What happened is that our co
by sarchertech 1y ago
Our country handled the pandemic nearly the same as other developed countries, but none of them have had such an extreme reaction.
What happened is that our country is extremely polarized and one side picked vaccines, masks, and lockdowns, so the other side took the opposite stance.
Then the vaccine, mask, and lockdown side reacted by leaning farther in (probably a bit too far near the end of things).
On the one side you had people yelling about masks causing them to asphyxiate and on the other you had people wearing masks alone in the car.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoI'm sure I was one of the people wearing the mask alone in the car, but that was only because it was easier to leave it on when I left the house than to continually put it on and take it off when I was out running errands. I guess I never found them that uncomfortable.
- sarchertech 1y agoThat’s fair. I was mostly looking for a hyperbolic example of people on the pro mask side, but that’s a good point.