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I wonder how the authoritarians in western countries will explain this.

Will people be pearl clutching and tweeting "People will die!" and calling people in nordic countries alt-right anti-vaxxers because they've moved on with life?

I wonder if politicians in western countries will be willing to give up the power that covid gives them and let people get back to normal.

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What's to explain? Their cited figures include children.

They're at 90.2% of adults having first shot and 80% have had both.

You can't claim the non fascists are pearl clutching while you're clutching at straws.

Probably when their economies are in ruin and people will hit the streets demanding their resignation. It already happens. Too bad they're led by anti vaxxers and right wing groups and are dismissed as such by news outlets. Lockdown measures in most democratic countries are anti constitutional anyway, not to mention anti democratic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_over_responses_to_t...

Why is it bad they're held by right wingers exactly?

Because they get dismissed as nazis and anti vaxxers protesting against corona, move on, when in fact these people are exercising their rights of association and freedom of expression. If you have a bunch of crazies in a group, it gets labelled as the crazy group.

Yes, but my guess is the irrational crazies are also the ones who have the passion and balls to lead in potentially violent confrontations. Moderately dissatisfied people probably look at the work and risk associated with organizing and participating in protests and think nah.

Yes, unfortunately that's the risk of protests, getting monopolized by crazies, or infiltrated by the political establishment with violent thugs and delegitimized. Moderately dissatisfied people with probably vote with right wing crazies, like it happened in Germany in 1929, ultimately leading to WW2 and the hollocaust.

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