Actually I do wonder if we can put the genie back in the bottle. President Cheeto rammed it into the MAGA bozos’ brains that COVID-19 was just a Democrat hoax/the flu/non-existent/etc. very effectively. Democrats in office are now limited in how much they are reverse the idea among the cult followers.
How much better it would have been had some other republican been president who took the pandemic seriously and encouraged everyone to take it seriously. Maybe right wing people might have done so. And left wing people would probably do it just because of the science behind it, like they are doing now.
In fact I wonder if Clinton could have done as good a job at as a republican who played it straight. Right wingers probably would have said “well if she says it, I won’t do it.”
