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It's scary to me that our country is being manipulated.

Covid19 does not need to be politicalize. We're in troubled times I don't believe we need people going against experts (science/doctors/etc...).

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It doesn't need to be, but if you have your own interests in mind (economic, anti-US, others?), then why not? Since the rise of mass social media we've learned it's pretty easy to mindfuck a bunch of rubes, and if you get caught, the rubes will double down because nobody's ego will ever take the hit of realizing they're the rube.

> It's scary to me that our country is being manipulated.

That's because the political system is very dysfunctional and national political leaders are no longer used to coherent action.

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