rant · moment 3 of 27
Covid Becomes QAnon for the Left
from #216 - A Good Deal | The Tim Dillon Show · #216
3 min
Tim argues that pandemic paranoia has become an obsessive ideology for boomers on the left similar to QAnon on the right, recounting his aunt quoting statistics and models in a cab ride, and notes most working people never got to quarantine.
- Tim compares Covid obsession to QAnon for the left—a conspiracy mindset that has infected both sides of politics.
- The incessant need to sit at home, drink wine, and imagine worst-case scenarios about Covid is infecting the body politic.
- Any boomer plugged into politics heavily is either hardcore QAnon or hardcore Covid—they live in one extreme or the other.
- When somebody has statistics ready and starts talking about charts at dinner, it's a problem and the night won't be good.
- Tim's aunt called him in a cab and started talking about models they'd built and where everyone's going to die.
- Over the last six months, nobody really knows anything about Covid—some people have been more right than others, but we're still figuring it out.
- Doctors now have a better way to treat Covid with a cocktail of drugs and using ventilators as a last resort.
- It's time to start dipping our toe back out there and going back to work—there's no other option and no vaccine may ever come.