Lockdown is the only safe haven for leftist sheep, and they are now terrified of returning to normal life.

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Countries are beginning to reopen, but not everyone is pleased. Those on the Left are concerned with having to come out of isolation from the infection at home and return to coping with the pressures of daily life.

A Google search for the word “I’m worried about lockdown stopping” or related words on social media shows a lot of people who took the state’s pitch about home being a safe haven from the virus very seriously.

Now that the lockdown has been removed, they are concerned with trying to resume daily social interactions with people rather than living mostly behind a computer screen. They are apprehensive about venturing out into a world of non-zero chance, where Covid still lurks. Many people seemed to love lockout because it relieved their FOMO (fear of missing out) (FOMO).

During the lockdown, there were far fewer social media posts showing people enjoying a wonderful time flying or drinking, leaving others to feel as though their own lives were missing. During the pandemic, the government forced everybody to become homebodies, and many that didn’t especially like their lives or try to take responsibility for changing their lifestyle found themselves in the same boat as those who had pre-pandemic lifestyles they envied.

“Does anybody else have anxiety about lockdown ending?” a Cosmopolitan magazine writer wondered last month, noting that lockdown has been beneficial to her mental health. According to the BBC, the process of coming out of lockout is causing social anxiety. “In a weird way, the lockdown has become a kind of comfort zone,” writes a Stylist magazine blogger.

“Comfort zone” is just another term for “safe space,” and is synonymous with progressives and their never-ending search for mental and physical comfort.

These citizens are unlikely to be on the political right. According to a Boise State University study, compliance with lockdown and other government pandemic guidelines differed by class, with “Democrats much more inclined to comply with recommendations than Republicans around the board, with the highest differences for not dining out, not leaving the home, not going to the gym, and implementing federal/state regulations.” According to the report, “those without a college degree are more likely to willingly comply” with prohibitions.

In other words, dogmatic, left-leaning sheep devoid of rational thought are more inclined to automatically obey whatever big government wants them to do than someone with a balanced and earned mistrust of big government and its endless lies.

During the crisis, certain people ignored the prohibitions or devised workarounds to keep the effect on their lives to a bare minimum. They went about their business as usual, deciding that the personal risk of Covid or penalties they faced for doing so was worth it. In certain circumstances, the decision was made after finding that their government had no idea what it was doing, considering the rapidly evolving protocols governing everything from virus activity to security equipment.

It’s not shocking that these critical thinkers are priorities for the lockout true believers. Again, it comes down to the fear of losing out, and the idea that the lockdown abiders couldn’t bear the fact that certain people were going about their business as usual, relegating the Covid saga to background noise. The Left enjoys citizen policing in everything from word use to recycling activities, and the pandemic presented them with yet another chance to virtue signal by using government controls to cover up their own insecurities while knocking their ideological opponents down a peg or two.

As shown by their terror and paranoia over the current removal of prohibitions, these people were still emotionally weakened and ill-equipped to cope with everyday life, and lockdown protected them from their own shortcomings by dragging them into the same state of helplessness for the better part of 14 months.

They acted against someone who deviated from their mentality, just like inmates informing prison officers that a fellow inmate was plotting an escape. They spent their time on social media and in-person wagging their fingers at those they deemed a menace to humanity for failing to adhere to what these insecure sanitary fascists called appropriate behavior.

And now that a growing number of people are covered by Covid-19 antibodies, they are forced to turn inward to repair their own lives – something that the government has permitted them to avoid dealing with for the past year.

We now know what lies at the core of the politically righteous Left’s condemnation, thanks to Covid: rather than anything else, it is the projection of their profound psychological problems.