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Yes the author's previous blog article "COVID-19 Restrictions are the new Sharia Law" might give you an idea of why these "random" cherry-picked example reddit comments made it into this article.

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That was satirical (eg. because people wearing cloth masks despite them having been shown to be ineffective against COVID19 is similar to wearing a garment for religious reasons). If you had literally looked at either of the posts after or prior to that, you would've seen more in-depth and serious criticisms of COVID-19 restrictions:

- https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/12/why-covid-19-restrictions-are...

- https://jsavage.xyz/2022/02/22/covid-19-advanced-authoritari...

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