Where most of the resistance to public health pronouncements comes from, I think. The administrative classes keep inventing more pointless bullshit to force everyone to do, and it's past time for a revolt against that.
I used to run a tech company. Much of my time was spent dealing with accountants, lawyers, bankers, and all that. Now I find it hard to cope with the same sort of work just on behalf of my family. Taxes, retirement plans, health insurance snafus, wills and trusts....
My barely-able-to-cope may be incipient dementia, but I think it's largely revulsion. Everyone hates this stuff and it's a complete waste of time and it's forced on us by people who invent it for their own benefit and have the power to demand compliance-or-else.
"Right" vs "left" may be rotating to mean "less willing to put up with administrative bullshit" vs "more willing." Although "wokeism" is a complex phenomenon, a major aspect is inventing new timewasting cognitive overheads, in order to benefit the administrative classes.

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This is a disastrous idea that makes you miserable.
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I would never do such a thing, of course, but I have, uh, high quality evidence that this has happened recently in my vicinity.
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(Supposedly also one of the greatest English poems. Could have fooled me.)
This seems to be the answer—thanks Jake! Giordano Bruno was definitely a time-traveling alien, confirming my hypothesis.
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