COVID denial led to a surge in anti-vaccine and anti-science beliefs, especially among middle class and more affluent white people who felt entitled to business as usual and being waited on hand and foot by poor, non-white people in the middle of a pandemic.
They cheered and abandoned all precautions when they thought the pandemic mostly killed those same poor, non-white people, and they are determined to never have to care about anyone else ever again.
The anti-trans hysteria probably couldn't have taken hold as easily in the US if these same people weren't already heavily indoctrinated in a "fuck you, you can't make me care" mentality because of COVID and science denial.
All these brittle, whiny narcissists insisting they are entitled to do whatever they want with them and their children's lives even if it kills them. The same people who would rather have a dead child than an autistic one feel the same way about their kid being trans.
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