I mean, why not? We have people denying that Trump lost, that tax cuts cause deficits, that the earth is round...so why not deny that Covid was really "that bad"?
It seems roughly 1,300,000 more Americans died during the pandemic. Whether they died precisely from Covid isn't really the point. The pandemic was an event that impacted overall public health in ways that were deadlier than all other wars America ever fought.
What I really can't understand is how motivated reasoning - which I admit is a very powerful force - could be so strong that it requires people to deny that Covid was really, really bad. Why, exactly, are they motivated to deny it?
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