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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the normie take which 80% of Americans not on DCUM, Twitter, Reddit, 8Chan, or Tumblr think:
1. The lockdowns were a good idea at the time and saved lives initially by flattening the curve, but they went on too long
2. Masks probably were a good idea for a few months, but then became a social problem
3. Warp Speed was a great success that saved a lot of lives, and the vaccines are safe and effective
4. Shutting down schools after spring 2020 was a huge mistake and led to massive learning loss and social problems, which will plague a generation
5. Initially well intentioned and positive programs (eviction freezes, stimmy, giveaways to businesses) went on too long and were too large and caused the current inflation mess
6. There was an information crisis created from both sides (censorship from left and govt, misinformation and pseudoscience from right) that persists and is very bad for democracy

Given that both sides hate the above, it's probably mostly accurate.[/quote]

This nails it.

I'm a lefty progressive and when I encounter people who can't admit the ways the left was wrong on aspect of Covid, or contributed to misinformation and dysfunction, I get so frustrated. Yes, Trump was an idiot who bungled the initial response, and yes, the angry anti-mask, anti-vaccine MAGA people are a problem. But if you can't see the mistakes the left made as well, you lose credibility, because there were a lot of them.

I do give a lot of credit to Biden and his team for quietly unrolling/rejecting the more unhinged positions of some people on the left, often opening themselves up to criticism. It's the right thing to do and is part of what has enabled people to arrive at these conclusions in a sane way instead of continuing to cling to prior delusions. There was a lot of reactionary behavior from the left that was entirely about proving Trump and his followers wrong and had little if anything to do with public health or even basic progressive principles like ensuring families and children have access to basic services.[/quote

Yeah, White progressives are the worst as they fight for labor rights as we force our Black and Brown laborers into unsafe working conditions so they can brunch w/o masks[/quote]

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