The Politics of Covid 19, mask wearing and the vaccination process

[Max Peck]

Your explanation came off to me as condescending. Could just be me misinterpreting, but starting the first paragraph with "We've literally talked about" and ending it with a laughing emoticon puts me in that frame of mind.

FWIW, Did not know.
Also FWIW, I won't remember in an hour, if not sooner, anyway.

Fair enough.

[Alefroth]

It's always the liberals' fault. Maybe we could read this for our next book club meeting.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... erals-book

Were conservatives right to question Covid lockdowns? Were the liberals who defended them less grounded in science than they believed? And did liberal dismissiveness of the other side come at a cost that Americans will continue to pay for many years?

A new book by two political scientists argues yes to all three questions, making the case that the aggressive policies that the US and other countries adopted to fight Covid – including school shutdowns, business closures, mask mandates and social distancing – were in some cases misguided and in many cases deserved more rigorous public debate.

Interview with one of the authors-

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/03/97338/