Shadi, this makes zero sense. Liberals made masks, expertise, and science a "cultural identity marker" because it is stark raving insane in a pandemic to adopt any other culture. You seem to be assuming it's normal, somehow, that half our country has entered a mass psychosis--
such that the afflicted *reject lifesaving modern medicine* in preference for voodoo formulas made of ivermectin and Vitamin D. They're at the level of *shaking rattles* at the ill, whereas the rest of the country lives in the 21st century.
There's no "two sides" when it comes to the anti-vax crap. A significant section of the American public has *lost its fucking mind.* It's a mass psychosis. Delusional. This has nothing to do with *anything* liberals did.
I've done my damndest to get inside the heads of the pandemic minimizers and deniers and anti-vaxxers. I can't. They are premodern in outlook. Fascinating, anthropologically. But they went back to the Middle Ages all on their lonesome.
No one pushed them there.

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