The left notoriously houses unique, insular, and nearly intellectually impenetrable (mostly online) subcultures. The "Zero COVID" faction is among them, and arguably the most fascinating. 

"Zero COVID" references a movement that earnestly advances the absurd proposition that, as if by magic, if we had just locked down harder, for longer, COVID would have gone away. 

The problem, according to Zero COVID doctrine, isn't the massive economic and social damage wrought by years of forced masking, business closures and vaxx mandates, and all the wrecked mental health, collapsed supply lines, and tribalistic social division that resulted. 

Those are all the acceptable costs of Zero COVID. The problem with lockdowns, according to Zero COVID dogma, is that they weren't stricter and more vigorously enforced – that more people weren't locked in their homes, accompanied by only social deprivation and alcohol; that more churches weren't forced to close; that more children's psychological developments weren't harmed. 

Zero COVID people regularly Tweet about the "eugenics" state directed by the federal government, which is committing a literal genocide by allowing COVID to spread through the population (like viruses do). 

They continue to treat the pandemic as if it is primarily a messaging and perception problem rather than a daily mass death event that demands strong federal action https://t.co/LnvTKsdqHl

— wsbgnl (@wsbgnl) January 5, 2022

Zero COVID proponents posture as the enlightened moral superiors to the mouth-breathers who won't go along with their program. 

Those of us who wear masks everywhere are not neurotic. We are informed. Even mild Covid damages vascular system, heart, brain, organs, immune system, eyes, ears, fertility, sexual function, cognition, and more...often silently at first. A mask is no big deal. Organ damage is.

— laurie allee (@laurieallee) October 5, 2022

Like all of the left's most effective social control ideas, they got it from China – the "basic dictatorship" for which Canadian PM Justin Trudeau casually declared his admiration. 

China’s absurd Zero-covid policy today in a nutshell

Credit @whyyoutouzhele pic.twitter.com/hQh4IZevAP

— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) October 4, 2022

Fascinatingly, Zero COVID intersects with another insular, terminally online faction on the left, "disability culture." The shared ideological principle is that a eugenicist society is targeting handicapped and/or immunocompromised people for destruction, and using COVID policy to do that by exposing them to the virus intentionally. Society "wants them dead." 

The longer I'm "removed" from society, the less I want to go back. I am far too permanently damaged to ever again feel at home in a society that wants me dead.

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