^^ All of these stories of anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers has me convinced they were all messed up in the head to begin with. I guess it took a pandemic to reveal how many of them there are, and the extent of their psychotic/sociopathic behavior.
You don't hear stories like this of vaxxed/pro-mask people doing anything to get in the news.
In the States this has been building for decades.
My own theory is we were headed towards this in a more manageable if still tragic way back all the way in the 1990's.
Waco standoff.
The Oklahoma City bombing.
The Atlanta Olympic Bombing.
Things were rough and then came the election of 2000 and the divisions down there. W. Bush got a reprieve from resistance to him in office after 9/11 and that's when and how the turn happened with these folks.
The War on Terror was what distracted the home grown RWNJs and their culture for about a decade. Remember when all the talking was about terrorism and how much Liberals hated America and were siding with terrorists if you didn't fall into lock step with the GOP and Bush?
In the aftermath the distraction of killing brown people of a different religion faded and they are now back to viewing their fellow Americans as unworthy and internal enemies whose every move however benign is secretly part of a literal satanic plan to destroy the U.S. based of course upon... Nothing.
Then a Liberal Black man was elected POTUS and that made it clear to their minds how much more dangerous the near enemy (Liberals/Progressives/Hispanic immigrants/LGBTQ/Feminists/Scientists/anyone not in the old white male demo that makes up the Republican Party and the Conservative Libertarian Evangelical movement in this country) was more important in confronting than the far enemy (Muslims, whether extremists or not/The NWO whatever it is this week/China/The U.N./France... The list is pretty long...) when it came to politics and culture.
But this is the mindset that makes it impossible to protect public health and safety better than we are right now because these people have decided to live in a delusion of epic proportions combined with a deeply and still festering disdain for anyone that can't measure up to the standards they have set for who is or isn't a legitimate American.
And so they don't care about 6000,000 dead people or shattered families.
These folk have been primed to be a poison pill in any efforts to douse the fire of the pandemic for decades now and the worst part is we have to deal with the consequences of their selfish short sighted delusions.
