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I've been thinking the same thing. It reminds me of the AFG brainworms that completely took over many foreign affairs correspondents last summer.

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Or the anti-woke crusaders, who often had a point in the very beginning but eventually go batshit crazy. I guess writers have strong incentives to become what their target readers want to see.

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One of those incentives is that the less the pandemic dominates our lives, the less we will listen to public health writers.

When the masks go away, so will their platform to advocate for their preferred policies.

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Or the woke crusaders as well, although their start position was batshit crazy.

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