In the UK, 90% of everyone over 16 has had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine and they had a Delta wave catching many of the unvaccinated. Trying to squint to understand why “it’s a mystery” for hospitalizations to go down even without huge restrictions. https://t.co/yX2n3S4B4v

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 27, 2021

Because many liberals — probably the majority — see the virus not as a natural phenomenon, but rather as a moral judgment. You only resist the virus by taking away things from people and enforced asceticism. This shows your moral rectitude and thus defends against Covid.

Of course since libs lack religion, they don’t quite put it in these terms but this is what it amounts to. It has been really funny watching the libs attempt to hold two things in their head at once, though: that the vaccines don’t work and that everyone should get vaccinated because they are effective.

This cognitive dissonance results in deeply bizarre articles like the one Zeynep is discussing, where it’s treated as some grand mystery that a very effective vaccine is working quite well, like just no one could possibly figure out why the expected results are occurring. I’ve seen more than a dozen of these types of articles now.