>>13026581If a virus has too high a kill rate, then end of the world rhetoric will run too high.
Americans couldn't help themselves from rioting even when lockdowns were active; if a genuine "the world is ending" narrative was pushed then it'd be like a "runaway greenhouse effect". Nothing short of a nuke would shake people out of it.
They had to roll out the idea of lockdowns slowly; they've already got mutant Covid strains in India and Brazil waiting to catch the anti-maskers after Chauvin gets sentenced.
