People believing that they can hold back a pandemic that spreads through the air is a religious feeling. Zero Covid is no different than Zoroastrianism or any other theology that doesn’t start with a “Z.”
No, I’m not advocating “let ‘er rip.” Sometimes, restrictions make sense. Sometimes, masking does. But like many dangerous fantasies, Zero Covid makes reasonable restrictions less likely as the howling Covid shriekers are seen as crazy, which they are, so any restrictions become associated with their lunacy.
We really need to find a way for the left to channel their latent religiosity into something useful.