In the very first paragraph of the abstract (the very first section), you get this gem:

"This paper investigates how pandemic visualizations circulated on social media, and shows that people who mistrust the scientific estab- lishment often deploy the same rhetorics of data-driven decision- making used by experts, but to advocate for radical policy changes."

Yes, "business as usual" and "things are more or less fine", "be normal" and "behave like a citizen in a free and democratic nation" are radical policies according to the authors. Not only are they radical policies, but they're changes, as in, that's not how they view the world. They live in a dictatorship, and to defy the dictatorship in any way is a radical policy change.