‘Zero COVID’: The Cringest Fringe Sect of the Branch COVIDians

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‘Zero COVID’: The Cringest Fringe Sect of the Branch COVIDians

By Ben Bartee
November 22, 2022

Originally published via Blacklisted News:

The left notoriously houses unique, insular, and nearly intellectually impenetrable (mostly online) subcultures. The “Zero COVID” faction is among them, and arguably the most fascinating.

“Zero COVID” references a movement that earnestly advances the absurd proposition that, as if by magic, if we had just locked down harder, for longer, COVID would have gone away.

The problem, according to Zero COVID doctrine, isn’t the massive economic and social damage wrought by years of forced masking, business closures and vaxx mandates, and all the wrecked mental health, collapsed supply lines, and tribalistic social division that resulted.

Those are all the acceptable costs of Zero COVID. The problem with lockdowns, according to Zero COVID dogma, is that they weren’t stricter and more vigorously enforced – that more people weren’t locked in their homes, accompanied by only social deprivation and alcohol; that more churches weren’t forced to close; that more children’s psychological developments weren’t harmed.

Zero COVID people regularly Tweet about the “eugenics” state directed by the federal government, which is committing a literal genocide by allowing COVID to spread through the population (like viruses do).

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Zero COVID proponents posture as the enlightened moral superiors to the mouth-breathers who won’t go along with their program.

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Like all of the left’s most effective social control ideas, they got it from China – the “basic dictatorship” for which Canadian PM Justin Trudeau casually declared his admiration.

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Fascinatingly, Zero COVID intersects with another insular, terminally online faction on the left, “disability culture.” The shared ideological principle is that a eugenicist society is targeting handicapped and/or immunocompromised people for destruction, and using COVID policy to do that by exposing them to the virus intentionally. Society “wants them dead.”

https://twitter.com/impossumble_/status/1577361010239115269

Challenging their narrative isn’t political disagreement; it’s “psychological abuse” in the same way that AOC once claimed criticism of her Congressional voting record is “literal violence.”

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Perhaps the only meaningful political commonality shared by the Zero COVID cult and normal people is their hatred for the managerial class.

Zero COVID true believers are so fanatical and insular that they have given up fighting the #MAGA threat and instead now mostly direct their vitriol toward liberals, whom they blame for not cracking down hard enough on the non-compliant peasants.

Whereas liberals celebrate the work of Public Health© experts such as COVID Warlord Fauci, Zero COVID cultists target them most viciously of all when they deviate, even slightly, from the total-lockdown-everywhere-forever policy gold standard.

Dr. Leana Wen, previously of Planned Parenthood fame, current CNN contributor and darling of the lockdown left broadly, has been so brutal in her Public Health© prescriptions as to liken the unvaxxed to drunk drivers and called for their banning from public transportation.

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Source:  https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/zero-covid-the-cringest-fringe-sect-of-the-branch-covidians/