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A few examples of things that have been rescinded recently, i.e., within the last several months:

- The New York subway mask mandate

- Mask mandates for airplanes, airports

- Covid testing requirements when flying to/from the US

When I read about these policy changes on mainstream left-leaning news sites, it seems like a large percentage of the commenters are upset about the changes, and think that we should still be trying to "fight" the virus. It's like they're still trying to fight the "mask wars" of 2020.

Granted, these could just be internet crazies, but it sure seems like there's a lot of them.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

Ibbiat

As i noted i spend half my time in Berkeley and am a died in the wool liberal... I think liberals have moved past covid and are into something else.. Perhaps the conservative media are still obsessed with things like vaccines and lock downs and masks but the liberals are on to the next thing...

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Ibbiat's avatar

Okay. Well, I can't explain the comment threads on the liberal news sites that I read, in that case.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

ibbiat

I debate consumers of right wing media every day. They are still obsessed with Masks and lock downs and vaccines.

They are obsessed with it like Democrats are obsessed with Jan 6th and Donald Trump...

People that think they know how the other side thinks about these things are just revealing they are deep in the weeds of partisan media...

BOTH sides are misinformed about the other side. It is a feature not a bug.

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Okay. I admit that I have very little exposure to right-wingers. Probably the most exposure I have is from occasionally reading these comment threads, although the people commenting on Taibbi articles are probably not right-wing so much as they are "heterodox thinkers."

But according to my [limited] experience, right-wingers have always thought that Covid is "just a flu," that the vaccines are unnecessary and probably dangerous, that masks were never helpful, and that the lockdowns we had were never necessary and really just an exercise in government controlling the populace (to no specified end).

I have never met a right-winger who thinks that we should all still be masking everywhere and maintaining a 6 foot distance from other people. If you say they're out there, though, I don't have any basis to contradict you.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

Would you say an anti xaxxer is a "heterodox thinker"?

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Ibbiat's avatar

I think it's pretty well documented that the vast majority of [Covid] anti-vaxxers are right-wingers in the US.

There's a contingent of left-wing woo-woo hippies who are anti-vax, but I think it's a pretty small percentage.

Why do you ask?

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