strypey, (edited ) "There was a desire - even on the part of some liberals - to call for the state to be even tougher in imposing lockdowns, in enforcing vaccines... [The left were] reluctant to talk about the question of policing during the pandemic, because it seemed like this would play into the conservative anti-lockdown movement but... it was a mistake really for the left or for liberals to not take up those issues."
#ArunKundnani, 2023