But that gradual return to barefaced life never reached left-leaning protests, where face masks are widely used and encouraged.
Part of the reason, say organizers, remains an attempt to make a point about exposure to COVID-19 and other health risks, which some in the left-wing protest movements believe remain dire. And part is the threat of a different kind of exposure — from being captured by facial recognition technology or becoming doxxed (their personal information being shared online) by counter-protesters.
“To us, the optics are communicating that we deny the Biden administration’s narrative about COVID — that it’s no longer a big deal,” said Olan Mijana, a spokesman for the March on DNC 2024 coalition. “It’s about collective safety, and it’s also about connecting this COVID neglect to the very issues that we’re march
When Biden went with covid denialism, it became bipartisan. It is now impossible for liberals to imagine doing anything about covid. To grow their own opinions without relying on constant transplants from NPR is unimaginable.
Maybe one day policymakers will prove sober enough to recognize the labor shortages and healthcare shocks they have set into motion, and all of the sudden the major media will have the liberals acting as if they had been into masking all along (again)