From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Eddie Scarry   
   Published June 28, 2022   
      
   Nothing quite revealed what absolutely horrific human beings that   
   liberals could be quite like the COVID pandemic. The annoying things   
   they've always done—nag, whine, lecture, tattle—came with the most   
   precious gift in 2020: the backing, approval and moral authority of the   
   state, as it’s conceived in the left's mind.   
      
   With the sanction of the government to insert themselves in everyone   
   else’s business, liberals felt free to pole vault atop the highest soap   
   box and reign down their most wretched sanctimony—all in the name of   
   "The Science."   
      
   From their greatest hits list:   
      
       "Where’s your mask?"   
       "You’re putting others at risk."   
       "Why are you traveling?"   
       "Stay home!"   
       "We’re all in this together."   
       "Follow the science!"   
       "Trust the science!"   
       "Six feet apart!"   
       "Practice social distancing!"   
       "Why don’t you wear your mask." (Always phrased as a question, even   
       though it wasn’t.)   
      
   Insufferable is the word.   
      
   It was like the end of "Grease" when Sandy—formerly a plain Jane, now   
   donning a leather jacket and makeup—suddenly has the nerve to act like   
   she runs the place. Except the audience loves Sandy for going the extra   
   mile to win a love interest. Liberals were simply acting out their most   
   exotic dreams of being able to tell everyone what to do, snapping at   
   innocent people while feeling good about themselves. Nobody loved that   
   or the people acting it out.   
      
   This remained true even into 2021. In March of that year, a full year   
   after the initial pandemic alarm hit the U.S., Democrats and liberals   
   were still hyperventilating over its spread: 82 percent of Democrats   
   and Democrat-leaning voters believed the new coronavirus was a "major   
   threat" to the entire US population "as a whole," according to a Pew   
   Research survey. Just half as many Republicans, 41 percent, agreed.   
   This was well after learning that COVID was relatively harmless to the   
   vast majority of us, with something like a 98 percent survival rate.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-loved-covid-pandemic-t   
   ey-wanted-you-love-it   
      
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