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Ugh, masks are not that bad. I literally went to a party and danced until 4AM with my friends in a N95 and it was fine. We only unmasked to do tequila shots.

If you're talking about vaccines, I have an all natural colloidal silver supplement to sell you.

What eliminates social cohesion and trust is * the disease itself * the people instrumentalizing the disease and/or the sanitary measures to partisan ends..

What if the elimination of the societal cohesion and trust was the product of a cynical, self-serving multi-decade political movement and propaganda campaign, and had only a little to do with pulling the lever, but the people who pulled the lever got most of the blame for it?

What if pulling the lever lets you win this election but 5% of the voters despise the political process?

Well, you obviously shouldn't pull it, because if you do, your opponents will use it as a precedent to do the same thing in the future.

You then lose the election, and they start pulling the lever over and over again.