Because its outside of the lived experience of pretty much everyone alive right now. It's not the reaction to the disinformation thats special. Its the circumstances under which people are spreading disinformation that is special. These aren't JFK assassination conspiracy theories. Almost 2000 Americans died yesterday. A lot of them needlessly because a huge segment of society is treating reality as optional.
Oh I certainly agree with the effects, I just don’t think it’s worth excluding the last pandemic where similar things happened (even if it was a while ago). It just seems to be a perpetual problem and when there are consequences for that misinformation spreading we see bad results :(
I think it's more than 2000. Many are dieing from over eating, over drinking, drug addictions, and other bad choices. It's just that we have gotten used to all the other reasons people die.
