Lockdown history will accentuate political disdain for the poor

The main thing is that absent technological achievement hatched by genius humans toiling with other genius humans, the lockdowns would have been unbearable economically and personally. Which speaks yet again to the arrogant doings of the political class. The simple truth is that absent the technology companies they’re bent on weakening now, there’s no way the lockdowns would have ever happened. The latter should not be construed as an arrow pointed at Big Tech. More realistically it’s an arrow directed at America’s vast middle and upper middle, particularly left-wing middle, upper middle. Since this significant slice of American humanity wasn’t going to lose work from lockdowns thanks to technological advance, the lockdowns would be embraced. Technology enabled a break from the daily office grind, and way too many Americans leaped at the break; one they would have never leaped at if their own jobs had been threatened.

All of this must be considered in light of all the virtue signaling on social media, all the mask-wearing, all the “Thank you Dr. Fauci” signs, and other obnoxious bits of political posturing from March of 2020 and beyond. There’s quite simply no way there’s such high end, strident support of that which took liberty and jobs from so many absent the ability of the elite to sidestep the horrors.