What's even more wild than some people continuing to wear masks during a pandemic is other people refusing to accept a free vaccine & thereby prolonging the pandemic.
It's very clear that, while the deliberately unvaxxed are worse on any conceivable metric (moral, social, epidemiological), it is people who insist on continuing to be cautious that truly BOTHER elite pundits, to the point of obsession.
It's worth thinking about why that is. I have my theories. But regardless of the reasons, I wish pundits would work a little harder to distinguish between "things that bother me" & "things that are of real social & political significance." Soooo much punditry consists of ...
... unconvincing attempts to puff the former up into the latter. IMO this explains 95% "cancel culture" hype. A set of people used to thinking of themselves as rebels & outsiders came under criticism from their left, hated it, & spun their butthurt into a grand nat'l conspiracy.
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