The reliance on mandates and things like CDC’s PSA’s that work off base emotion on about a 3rd grade level, both as opposed to real education, certainly has not helped.
And on the other side we have people advocating literally impossible conspiracy theories with enough “tin foil” for the next ten million years of BBQ ribs.
The Chinese are surely laughing their asses off at us.
It’s the click wars feeding off of confirmation bias. It just keep getting turned up another notch. Nowhere along the line does common sense and critical thinking kick in.