Early on those people were saying just let it rip through the population so the survivors acquire "herd immunity", and even after it became clear that people could be infected multiple times--that infection did not bestow immunity *at all*--they were still peddling that stupid shit.

Tressie McMillan Cottom

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.