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mimi's avatar

In addition, to get back to my main point, the "essential workers", the people who had to go into work in the earliest days of the Covid "pandemic", often were not in jobs that allowed them a lot of mobility. But for whatever reason, maybe just because they were working out in the world, many of them knew that the Covid restrictions were a bunch of nonsense. The people who flipped out about Covid tended to be in well-paying jobs and tended to have more mobility and more choices about where and when to work. They were largely the ones that respected authority and were very harsh with people who disobeyed the "rules". Why the difference?

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Judith's avatar

Because for the laptop class following the rules has generally been advantageous. People in white collar office jobs got to not only keep those jobs but also work from home. Win/win. From that perspective they can't understand why everyone won't just follow the rules.

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SCA's avatar

It was all Pantsuit Nation and its fellow travelers.

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