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> A pandemic of toxic individualism

Given the social constraints that the various lockdown measures imposed on us, I would argue that you are correct, but not for the reason you think. The response to the pandemic has, in a toxic and damaging way, turned us into atomised and isolated individuals.

Those demanding freedoms back, are actually requesting that we return to an integrated, social society.

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I'm not sure I'd describe 2019 as an integrated, social society. "ships passing in the night" might be a more accurate description.

I agree with you. It would seem that the response to Covid has rapidly accelerated all that was going wrong with society, while largely halting all that was going well.

Are these the same people who insist that scientists are lying dirtbags and are trying to implant these freedom lovers with tracking devices?

You do yourself, and intellectual curiosity, a great dis-service when you paint with strokes that broad.

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