Yeah. And that people act like it's normal every day... they say "He didn't mean drink bleach" and "Impeachment was a hoax" and so on and on and it's so much insanity. I don't understand it at all.
As over there, so over here. I know I really should rise above it but I can't help getting into arguments on Twitter with idiots who are convinced the government is doing a great job of handing the response to the pandemic. They're totally impervious to logic and facts. Point out that - according to the best figures anyone has - we now have the worst death toll in Europe and second-worst globally behind the USA and they'll just say "those numbers are wrong". And they do have a shadow of a ghost of a point, because frankly who the hell knows how you'd accurately account for the different ways different countries have of gathering and reporting this data, and frankly the true numbers in countries like China, Iran and Russia are anyone's guess, but that's just missing the wood for the trees because the pertinent fact is that just two months ago we were looking in horror at Italy and Spain, while our deaths numbered under a hundred, and saying "Wow, thank god that's not happening here!"
I think these are many of the same people who say Brexit is great because we're no longer sending money to Brussels, and then when you point out that it's already cost the economy more than the UK's total EEC/EU contributions since 1973, respond with a hilarious photo of a crying baby.
The mentality seems to be that loser-dom is defined not by actually losing out from a situation but by not being prepared to insist that everything is great and the government is doing a great job. Or they're aware, on some level, that we're all getting shafted, but they don't care as long as it's "their" side that's doing the shafting.