Interesting discussion. Free-floating anxiety is given an attachment mechanism by the media, converting it into a directed anxiety that in turn creates a new social group dedicated to defeating the anxiety that’s been artificially attached to the object in need defeat — in this case, a virus with a death rate below .5% in most cohorts.

The result is a kind of mass-psychosis that hopes to present as altruism. Vaccine mandates, despite evidence that the vaccines themselves aren’t sterilizing, is an example of this social agenda that has metastasized into an authoritarian cancer embraced by very dedicated, almost religiously so, adepts to the church of Zero Covid.

Rationality, reason, data, scientific findings — none of these things dissuade them. When the scales fall from their eyes, is hard to tell. It’s almost as if they’ve become acculturated and are in need of de-programming — which is unlikely so long as the cult’s message is foregrounded and legitimized by government, a compromised medical and regulatory bureaucracy, and its media apparatchiks.