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Originally Posted by Atocep
Based on where we were when the pandemic started? Yes, it's a surprise. When we didn't have a ton of information on COVID and it hadn't been politicized yet there wasn't a great deal of divide yet on how to handle or approach it. It didn't become political until a couple of months in when right wing media and politicians found a culture war to fight with the left.
Early on the lockdowns were popular enough that there wasn't a lot of pushback. It wasn't until the 2nd half of 2020 that clear lines were being drawn politically on how we should handle COVID. The right (such as Desantis) is trying to rewrite history and claim they were always against lockdowns, vaccines, ect but the facts say otherwise.
I guess my summary would be: based on March/April 2020 to now? Yes, surprise. From the 2nd half of 2020 to now? Not much of a surprise.
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People as a general whole were never going to accept long term lockdowns absent a clear and immediate threat once the economic costs and (probably more importantly) inconvenience of them became apparent.