Lol what a load of bullshit. I remember when COVID was beginning, and lots of scientists were talking about how we needed lockdowns, and for a while, before it became a culture war issue, that was a perfectly acceptable stance.

Then the right decided to go full on, “It’s my right to get sick and spread illness to my neighbors, and any attempts to stop that are literally 1984.” So we got completely half-assed “lockdowns” that were little more than polite suggestions, and of course the right treated it as the worst thing to ever happen. The exact same mentality as when right wingers deliberately waste water out of spite during a water shortage because the government had the audacity to politely ask them to maybe consider conserving it.

While we in the West were being sacrificed so that the line would go up, while our grocery stores were packed with everyone panic-buying toilet paper, Vietnam’s government for example was delivering free groceries straight to people’s houses to encourage them to stay indoors.

Socialist countries generally listened to the science and took steps to keep people safe while capitalist countries did nothing and lied to us, sacrificing our lives and health for profits.