or the past year and change liberals have been encouraging people to “follow the science” – though they never seem to do that themselves. Instead, “follow the science” has always been synonymous with “listen to us and believe.”
Roughly a third of the U.S. population (mostly leftists) overestimates the probability that a coronavirus case will require a hospitalization by a factor of ten. No one “following the science” would get that answer wrong, but liberals are the most likely to.
While most of us have been ready to get back to life as usual for quite a while now, the most progressive subset of the population never wants this to end. A great piece in The Atlantic recently described these people as the liberals who can’t quit lockdown: “For this subset, diligence against COVID-19 remains an expression of political identity—even when that means overestimating the disease’s risks or setting limits far more strict than what public-health guidelines permit.” You can see these people just by turning on your TV – such as MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who brags about double masking while going for a run, despite being vaccinated.
When the CDC released guidance that the fully vaccinated can ditch masks, and the “lockdown forever” crowd was out in full force to announce their virtue and seethe about the dire risks of a virus they’re now immune to.
First of all, this vaccine thing has turned into a, if you get it, you won’t get covid. It only helps with the symptoms. And who knows if it even does that. We are the test subjects for this whole shim sham bunch of bullshit.
Not everyone is getting this vaccine. It’s our right to decide to get it not Joe Biden or fake Fauci. If people want to keep on wearing them so be it after they have been vaccinated.