All the virtue-signalling and hysteria about masks is 100% fear-driven. The virtue-signalling is all about being afraid of not being the in-group. More virtue = more solid social standing.
Alot of the over-the-top reaction is by people who feel their internal narrative is threatened. They don't want to admit they were conned by the people they trusted most, so they're doubling down on embracing the MSM's overall narrative, but especially about the covid-1984 hysteria.
Not wearing a mask or calling bullshit on the hysteria is a direct threat to kool-aid drinkers' perceptions of their own astuteness and intelligence.
The kool-aid drinkers' over-reactions are directly proportional to how much they realize, but won't admit, the MSM narrative they embraced is failing and how much social standing their lack of discernment will cost them.
Elan school techniques married in there as well.
All the virtue-signalling and hysteria about masks is 100% fear-driven. The virtue-signalling is all about being afraid of not being the in-group. More virtue = more solid social standing.
Alot of the over-the-top reaction is by people who feel their internal narrative is threatened. They don't want to admit they were conned by the people they trusted most, so they're doubling down on embracing the MSM's overall narrative, but especially about the covid-1984 hysteria.
Not wearing a mask or calling bullshit on the hysteria is a direct threat to kool-aid drinkers' perceptions of their own astuteness and intelligence.
The kool-aid drinkers' over-reactions are directly proportional to how much they realize, but won't admit, the MSM narrative they embraced is failing and how much social standing their lack of discernment will cost them.