I think this is the best thing I've read on that subject so far.

"The political project of normalizing transmitting COVID & casting basic, scientific mitigations as bad, weird, mean, stupid, & impossible is a fantastic coup for the right. It is the utter rejection of state responsibility for public welfare, paired with the complete shredding of an early-pandemic solidarity that bound those at risk (everyone) together."

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

#covid

How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections

Continual reinfection was not the "new normal" Biden advertised. How did we get here?

The Gauntlet

@unchartedworlds

I agree, but must point out that the grand act of normalizing this behavior in regard to Covid was accomplished by Left Wing provocateurs, specifically those of the Biden Administration's public health apparatus.

I can't help but feel that we've been played.

@noyes

I don't know enough about Biden's lot to judge how left-wing they really are (I'm in the UK), but I agree that many many left-wing people have bought into the normalisation, and contributed to perpetuating it. Too much superficial normality, not enough science and care.

@unchartedworlds the the beginning of the pandemic I got banned from the #sandiego subreddit because I suggested that #COVID was probably spreading through the air and that it wouldn't matter how far you stood from others inside a building. I'm an engineer. Weeks later "COVID" spreads through the air. Later "COVID particles can linger more than 6ft". The news pushes a lot of #incomplete #information bullshit too.

@werefreeatlast

Wow, that's like some kind of fairytale curse! (being banned for telling the truth)

I'd say it _can_ matter where you stand compared to the infectious person. Best analogy I've seen is to compare it to someone smoking - you probably will get more of the smoke if you're right next to them, but the longer you're both in the same space, the more likely yr breathing it anyway.

@unchartedworlds Author takes something that’s basically the same across the world and tries to make it into a USA political story.
@unchartedworlds A long read that ought to be required reading by every person.