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

I think overall, I have really lost faith in my government. I never think that I fully had faith in my government, but I think it's safe to say I have completely no trust in our system or any part of our system. I always thought I had some idea that the government would have the best interest of the lives of the people of this country over politics, but that just clearly isn't true. It makes me so incredibly sad that we live in a world that science is politicized and people are dying because of it. The especially sad part about this is that politics shouldn't result in the death of thousands of people, but here it is, happening in real time. I don't know that my political opinions have changed, but that my beliefs in universal health care and the identifying of the deep systematic inequality in our society has only fortified.