Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 3 2022 06:02pm)
I mean, to be fair, the political aspect is a self-inflicted wound for conservatives. From a Machiavellian perspective, it would have been far smarter to wait with overturning Roe until after the midterms.
Claiming that the covid death toll was inevitable is blatantly wrong in the face of empirical evidence. Delaying infections until after vaccines became available and/or until a less deadly variant dominated definitely impacted the death toll.
The fact that a ton of the covid measures were ineffective should not mislead us into thinking that each and every precaution was futile.
The true tldr on covid is that it was indeed a tradeoff between wealth and freedom on the one side and health on the other. One side of the political aisle kept claiming that keeping cases as low as possible, whatever it takes, would yield the optimal outcome on all dimensions. They were horribly, almost comically wrong. The failure of the covid hawks does not, however, imply that doing absolutely nothing would have been the ideal response.
I don't think it will have much of an impact. Pro-life and pro-abortion are relatively equal contingents, and this is as moralizing for the former as it is demoralizing for the latter. This is why conservatives vote religiously year in and out.