Here’s the Real Reason Some Downplay the Dangers of COVID - Tim Wise

‘FREEDOM OVER FEAR’

By Tim Wise

It’s a slogan you’ll see on placards at anti-vax and anti-mask rallies, held by those who insist COVID is a hoax or at least exaggerated as to the dangers it poses.

This, despite the fact it has killed at least 650,000 Americans as I write this and hospitalized many more over the past 20 months.

Those who strike this pose of defiance would have us believe they do so out of some courage the rest of us lack. We who mask and vaccinate, they say, are like scared children, afraid of our shadows. … READ MORE ... 

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