They have learned that declaring a pandemic is a cheat code to curtail individual civil liberties.
I still dont think it is. In certain countries where they dont have the attitudes or beliefs to resist it (read: Most of Europe+Canada+ANZ). But at least the US? They managed to do stuff for all of a month or two before states started doing major pushback, people started ignoring the powers that be, and now no one will believe them when they do it again. And many states have even started putting in place measures to make it harder to try again.
They took their shot, and while they managed to wing us, they still missed. And now they are reeling from that because that was their only shot.
I know red states like Florida and Texas will not comply but at the national level they will try to push authoritarianism like lockdowns and vaccine mandates again.
I am not confident in most normies.
Normies don't have a good memory and I doubt they actually learned any lessons from the 2020 COVID response.
Must be a difference of location. Most of the normies where I live were some of the first to stop paying attention to the Covid stuff once it became clear the government was taking the piss. The only people who insisted on it were the Leftist.
Same here in Kansas. But it is so infrequently I can usually count it on one hand and 9/10 they have other tells that say “Leftist” instead of “Normie”. And this is a reasonable sized town with a major college and typically a purple voting pattern.
Actually, on that note, last time around the college was both the biggest agitator locally and the most rebellious locally. But when you saw which where which, it still tracked (Ag and Engineering? Rebellious. Social Science? Aggressive enforcers.)
I still dont think it is. In certain countries where they dont have the attitudes or beliefs to resist it (read: Most of Europe+Canada+ANZ). But at least the US? They managed to do stuff for all of a month or two before states started doing major pushback, people started ignoring the powers that be, and now no one will believe them when they do it again. And many states have even started putting in place measures to make it harder to try again.
They took their shot, and while they managed to wing us, they still missed. And now they are reeling from that because that was their only shot.
I know red states like Florida and Texas will not comply but at the national level they will try to push authoritarianism like lockdowns and vaccine mandates again.
I am not confident in most normies.
Normies don't have a good memory and I doubt they actually learned any lessons from the 2020 COVID response.
Must be a difference of location. Most of the normies where I live were some of the first to stop paying attention to the Covid stuff once it became clear the government was taking the piss. The only people who insisted on it were the Leftist.
I still see at least some people masked up in stores in Texas.
Stuff like this is why my faith in normies is so low.
Same here in Kansas. But it is so infrequently I can usually count it on one hand and 9/10 they have other tells that say “Leftist” instead of “Normie”. And this is a reasonable sized town with a major college and typically a purple voting pattern.
Actually, on that note, last time around the college was both the biggest agitator locally and the most rebellious locally. But when you saw which where which, it still tracked (Ag and Engineering? Rebellious. Social Science? Aggressive enforcers.)