Between flip-flopping reccomendations, ineffective mandates, and functionally shutting the whole country down, I find it hard to believe someone believes the measures taken during the pandemic were "minimally invasive" or "common sense".
At times, public discourse felt more like some war between political factions than a country dealing with an inconvenient highly-infectious virus.
I will never forget the cult-like fanatacism surrounding the virus and vaccines from my peers during that time (went to an extremely liberal high school). Its even more insane how quickly those people just stopped caring entirely after lockdown ended and the news cycle moved onto the next Biggest Thing Ever, of the week.
