Originally Posted by BoilerUP

If we ACTUALLY "followed the science", parks wouldn't have been closed over the last year, people wouldn't wear masks while outside, children would have been back in school across this country months ago, people two weeks past their first COVID vaccination wouldn't need to wear masks because they're 80% protected from infection, and people would choose to get vaccinated because of how safe and effective COVID vaccines have proven to be in the last four months.

Many many many people on both sides of the ideological divide "follow the science" only when it suits their individual biases based on emotions or fear.