“They’re doing this because they LIKE lockdowns” has led to innumerable bad takes for months; now it’s leading people to miss how angry vaccinated people are at unvaccinated for forcing a return to precautions on their behalf. Like, I’m legit worried about the level of rage.

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) August 10, 2021

I’m beyond rage at the deliberately unvaccinated and the anti-vaxxers. I could go ape on those motherfuckers in public and not feel an ounce of regret, so it’s right to be worried about that level of rage. I could handle going to jail for the delight of caving an anti-vaxxer’s face in.

However, I do think a lot of the blue state scoldy people do actually like lockdown — maybe not even lockdown itself, but the ritual and asceticism around it. And of course the opportunity to scold, castigate and admonish has a lot of value to them. If lockdown and masking goes away, they lose that source of great joy.

It’s a mess. And if it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.