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I don’t think it’s fully opposed, but there is a die hard cadre of Covid fearmongers. Some are germphobes, many are sheep. Some might have darker motivations.

There may well be, but in my experience, they don’t shut down discussion. Posts full of derogatory name calling are more like those that do.

I can fully understand those who have been impacted, hell, murdered economically by what has happened and is happening. I can’t understand for the life of me, however, how taking it out on Free Republic helps. Name-callers can’t seriously claim that they are trying to educate or communicate with people by calling them names, so are more obviously just venting.

There is, as you point out, a darker possibility, as well. China wants to resume its dominant trade status. This leads to irrational calls to return to “normal”, as if this attack had never happened. It would be a pre-Trump “normalcy”, too, with China firmly in charge. There are clearly supporters of this view, here, as well as the views you describe.