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2022-06-25

"Pro-life" and COVID death

This is a tweet from BillHMcCarty. This person is criticizing the amount of COVID deaths that are happening is states that are looking to outlaw or heavily restrict abortion.
2020

Anti-Maskers--People who were against wearing facemasks

There was a backlash against wearing facemasks--mostly with the conservatively inclined people. They made all kinds of claims about that--that they forced you to breath your own toxins, that they caused cancer, that they did no good, that it wasn't the government's job to protect our health, that it was against our Constitutional rights, etc. Here are just a few of those statements. The battle over masks heated up considerably after the early stages--the time which these are from.