>>Yupp, openly arguing Trump preference is stigmatized, so current projections are (again) skewed.

Every so often there's a brave response like this; https://twitter.com/danrothschild/status/1319646560607752194 . Second-to-last and last paragraph particularly apt.

BTW, the UK Guardian has taken to publishing hostile articles against Jacinda Ardern, leader of NZ's most popular government in at least 50 years who presided over a series of COVID lockdowns. My view always was that if lockdown is a medical response, it needs the same scientific challenge as any other medical response. If it were a medication we'd all demand to know side effects, efficacy, all the standard stuff before the treatment can be applied. The UK has started to produce this sort of material and the "excess mortality" calculations suggest the lockdown cure is worse than the disease. Which apparently justifies the attacks on Ardern who made herself a poster child for severe lockdowns. But back to the US: I wonder whether people loudly calling others hateful murderers for opposing lockdowns, will be as harsh on themselves if the US findings match the UK. Actually- no I don't wonder. They'll just move to the next attack which is becoming the norm from both sides in the US unfortunately. Perhaps a better response would be some sort of proportional representation as practiced in Germany or the US rather than basically 2 sides in the US with everything else marginalized. No matter how unnatural the result might be, coalition government diminishes partisanship and intolerance.