While the symptoms of covid are painful you have a next to zero chance of dying from it if you're not fat or old. The people who are going to call this dumb are probably A) fat and b) fat and moviebob fatTell that to anti-maskers who still think covid is a hoax. You can open up threads on /pol/ right now and people are calling it “Just a flu”
There is no reason for a pandemic to become a political issue. Trump was so worried about good optics for his re-election that it ended up costing him the whole thing. Is it any wonder why tourist heavy states suddenly turned blue?
There was no reason for nationwide lockdowns that destroyed half the restaurant sector in new york city.