[lukami]

Where did you get that it’s only the “liberals” who think that lock-down is necessary to combat this virus? Here are some countries that have imposed lock-down and can hardly be described as liberal: China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, Pakistan. Interestingly, one of the most liberal countries in the world, Sweden, is the one that didn’t impose a lock-down.

[umanwizard]

My comment is specifically about the US, where support for the lockdown is strongly correlated with support for one of the two major ideologies on the US-specific political spectrum.

Sorry for not making it clear that what I was saying wasn’t intended to be applicable internationally.

[api]

It wasn't like that in the beginning of the pandemic.

Any potential source of division in the US gets seized upon by the utterly massive partisan propaganda machinery (of both parties) and turned into a fault line with which to segment the electorate. Nothing is immune, and the process is advanced, scientific, industrial scale, and highly effective.

The reason billions are spent to do this to us is that elections are largely decided by whose base is most fired up to actually bother to vote. That means it's less about debating issues or convincing anyone and more about firing up the base with fear, hate, or other base emotions that tend to translate easily to action.

[lukami]

Then what is the basis for your assumption that liberals [in the US] might be wrong when they support the lock-down if almost everywhere else in the world conservatives and liberals agree that lock-down is necessary?