Fear often changes people in ways that are difficult to predict and there was definite fear. In hindsight, we were being bombed by it non-stop via the media and often by those around us.
At some point, even when many understood who was at risk and who was not, nothing changed. Every glimmer of hope was crushed because “hope” was not allowed. The narrative of the “pandemic” had a higher goal. To get rid of Donald J. Trump.
It worked.
There was absolutely no reason why people on FR who had just spent four years rightly deriding the mainstream media as “fake news” to suddenly start accepting the bullsh!t flooding the airwaves without hesitation.
Like I said ... that’s when I knew this country was doomed. Even a bunch of people right here on FR who spend hours online promoting themselves as principled conservatives turned out to be nothing more than pathetic, gullible fools.
Anybody who couldn’t see through the BS at the outset is not a mentally functioning person. It was plain as day, it still is, and it’s a disgrace how few people actually embrace freedom beyond mere lip service.