New research helps to explain the association between political conservatism and riskier pandemic lifestyles. According to new research published in Discover Social Science and Health, political conservatives tend to be less empathetic, hold more authoritarian beliefs, and feel less threatened by the pandemic, which in turn is associated with reduced adherence to COVID-19 health recommendations. ...
That's definitely the point where everything completely broke. Started with Biden declaring mission accomplished July 4th 2020 (weird how he had to declare mission accomplished again this summer lmao).
CDC's first fuck up was claiming N95s were unnecessary. Don't care what justifications libs give for this, there's still people wearing cloth masks and surgical masks thinking they're protecting themselves and others when the evidence suggests they're doing the bare minimum above free balling it.
It was even worse than that, they spread FUD on masks not doing anything at all