I live in California, and recently had a conversation with a family member in The Hague.
She was telling me about her frustrations with Anti-Maskers and Covid-deniers she has been arguing with locally.
Apparently these are not just US political issues.
I think it’s a huge amplifier of what would otherwise be fringe ideas.
In the absence of FB, there would be tensions, but no battleground.
> A study then in 1919 concluded that mandatory mask mandates did not make any difference on epidemic
But, the politics is quite different from the US. Some restaurant and bar owners threatened to stage a protest and re-open against the law, giving six weeks notice that they might do this. This has since been defused.
https://nltimes.nl/2020/12/02/restaurants-bars-defy-dutch-ba...