An instinctive distrust of the government/ worry about its over reach and in the US, combined with the politicization of the pandemic that makes vaccines/lockdown a liberal agenda. All warranted, but thats all principle. The reality is these authoritarian policies are needed to beat the pandemic, and the vaccines work. Either you accept that reality, or stick to principle and shrug at another 600k dead.
An instinctive distrust of the government/ worry about its over reach and in the US, combined with the politicization of the pandemic that makes vaccines/lockdown a liberal agenda. All warranted, but thats all principle. The reality is these authoritarian policies are needed to beat the pandemic, and the vaccines work. Either you accept that reality, or stick to principle and shrug at another 600k dead.
So much of this really does boil down to the cliche "Leftism is When The Government Does Stuff" attitude that westerners have embraced.