Can we get you to clearly define these "sides"?
It sure feels much less horrible to wear a ****ing mask and get vaccinated than it does to believe that the covid vaccine is the mark of the devil. But I'm open to being wrong if you can prove it.
Very good question. Should be obvious from the context.
Being human, we don't resolve well into simple sides, except maybe in open warfare, tribal feuds, or religious contentions.
The generalized sides I refer to are the people like OB, Game maybe, many others, government officials who view the advanced public health measures as absoolutely essential, even justifiably mandatory, or even who believe the failure to use or abide by the recommendations as criminal, on the order of homicidal, so dangerous to others, actually life-threatening.
Some would be less sympathetic and just call that "side" something like "The Fascists".
The other side includes people, even some professional and educated people, with specific concerns about the measures implored or mandated by the "fearmonger" authoritarians.
I think there is a very wide spectrum here of people with concerns, either informed or suspected, or baseless in fact. I think this side includes conventional political agitators who want to create greater controversy among the public and make this situation a real political tool.
I think there are both sincere, informed, grounded, reasoned folks on each side, and a real serious political activism on both sides.
Public health measures can be life-saving and essential operations of good government. But in government gone amok, they can be devastatingly destructive.
I think the thesis in this thread is that some real bad actors have got their hands into this, and are willing to use it to reduce the human overpopulation problem, and to bring in a form of authoritarian socialism that is antithetical to American values.
I favor some investigation in the background of Anthony Fauci and his dealings with the Chinese, as well as some Bill Gates' funded operations.
If our authorities would respect these concerns, they would gain trust and credibility from a lot of skeptics.