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Has the pandemic affected your political views in any way? If so, how?

<strong> Watching the pandemic turn into a political question just drives me insane.</strong> What should just have been a fact of life became a marker of your political philosophy, and probably made me more of a moderate than I was prior<strong>. Those one the right are being reckless</strong> with their lives and those around them by denying the virus and not taking precautions because that’s what “free” people do. On the other hand,<strong> those on the left that turned mask wearing into virtue signaling and wanting to force people to get vaccines isn’t right either. It just creates a horrible chasm that makes it really hard for medical workers, public health officials, and those of us who have to care for the dead to do our jobs</strong> to save lives and keep society running. I don’t know that this could have played out any differently though - all these ingredients already existed, but<strong> there’s nothing like a pandemic to be the catalyst for societal upheaval</strong>. It was bound to happen regardless; more a question of how and when rather than if.