> State CapitolMissouri never had any rules about travel or super market isles (wait... did any state make laws or regulations about super market isles?!). I visited extended family throughout the spring of 2020 and I wasn't breaking any laws.
More importantly, MO's government is comprised of a conservative governor, a conservative super-majority in the legislature, and conservative courts, all of whom have been aggressively anti-lockdown, and any of whom could reasonably have authored your exact post. The only credible threat to conservatives in Missouri is from the right. Who exactly are these woke baddies in the state capitol?!
My fundamental point is a scientific observation. The only substantive claim you're making in your post that is related to the article is about the source of this rage. That claim is a good one because it is possible to test by running an experiment: put restrictions on one population but not another and determine if levels of rage are elevated in one or both communities.
Your assertion is empirically denied by the fact that people are still enraged at elevated levels even places where these restrictions never existed, or existed for trivial treatment periods several years ago.
The rest of your post sort of reaffirms my belief in my hypothesis.
For example, in God's name, what role does wokeness play in this discussion other than to serve as an associated angry-tickles trigger word?
You managed to blame an aggressively anti-lockdown state government for restrictions that literally never existed and then went on an entirely unrelated rant about wokeness in your first post on this topic -- unprovoked and apropos of absolutely nothing in the article or the comment section.
This reiterates my belief that the rage is manufactured and that propaganda is a likely root cause for the state of the public's mental health. Just keep throwing all those angry words in the angry word soup.
Angry trigger words associate. It's all related by cortisol and negative emotions; the substance of the conversation doesn't matter. Just be angry at all the baddie stuff. The more the better.
(BTW, I'm going to take this opportunity to reiterate the link between stimulus checks and substance abuse, which is apparently less fun to think about than wokeness or whatever trigger word, but is definitely an important root cause for increased rage levels.)