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The American Mind

CHAPTER

The Reality of COVID Lockdowns

The reason that they kept saying these things with their face hanging out during COVID and having to walk them back is because they were simply like stepping into the implications of their own convictions as Ryan has just outlined. I am my main curiosity about this is whether like the climate actually represents a plausible plausible enough emergency for people to go along with it especially since they saw what a conard we're in. But then there's a kind of frog in the pot option where this stuff is just already happening and it just goes so incrementally that we don't even notice until until it's over.

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