that they used it as an excuse to exercise more control rather than actually save people from COVID.

But what are this person's (or group's) concrete ideas for responding to Covid? There's a lot of vague talk about "we keep us dangerous" and "security and safety have always been lies sold by the State and ruling class for the expense of freedom" and plenty of criticism for the state response, but almost nothing on what should have been done, or should be done. A particularly bad-faith reading takes something like

there is more to life than the mere fact of biological survival

as some reactionary "let me spread a deadly virus so I can get a haircut," except with an anarchist aesthetic rather than a chud one. A more charitable reading might assume they want pandemics to be dealt with through community, mutual aid. I'm unsure though how that would differ from

many leftists and radicals...shaming people...for diverging from these rules

since it would just be leftists and radicals asking people to wear masks again. Maybe they're mad the leftists and radicals asked so uncivilly?

I agree with the topic itself, the liberal creep in left-wing spaces is a real issue. I'm unsure how to deal with it myself since the left in the US is so small, most people are learning, and to learn you necessarily must go through a radlib phase as you seek to excise your brain worms.

But this person has no concrete ideas themself for how to do this either, how to respond to the liberal creep. Only vague statements. And furthermore, instead of tackling the issues of

calling for US imperial intervention in Syria to voting for Bernie

or trying to explain and define this issue of liberal creep, giving examples of where it shows up, most of the essay is just complaining about Covid in an extremely chud-adjacent manner. I mean

even when [those rules] blatantly made no “sense” even by epidemiological principles

I'm trying to read this in good faith, but I'd love to know what the rules were that they feel made no sense