This is a well meaning comparison, but it is considerably incorrect. There is already a eugenicist cull of disabled people in motion. The ideology which justifies it is neither strictly anti-lockdown, nor pro-lockdown, but their combination. https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1332873432468492288
The British care sector provides a clear example. COVID-19 has been funneled into care, producing waves of death (96% of England's COVID deaths are of disabled people). The "lockdown" does not exist in a practical sense. It exists as segregation.
This segregation is also killing masses of people, as those with dementia worsen and other pre-existing conditions go without treatment. In society, it is equally barbarous, disabled children placed isolated at schools, MPs unable to sit, journalists frozen out.
Neither anti-lockdowner nor pro-lockdowner treat this sincerely.

Anti-lockdowners treat it as evidence that the virus requires no change, aside from segregation of the disabled.

Pro-lockdowners don't mention it, as it undermines their position entirely.
Whilst there is a fascist core within the anti-lockdown movement - Ike in Britain, Trump's use of the movement in the US for example - I think it is quite incorrect to term the movement as fascist. It is a one-sided reaction to the pandemic, which justifies disabled death.
At the same time, those who argue for greater lockdown ignore the realities of what is happening in care and provide justification for the greater concentration of power in the state. Whilst the COVID Act will likely be ended in Britain, this power isn't going away (eg CHIS bill)
The combination of these two phenomenon allow the cull in care to proceed and the state to concentrate evermore power.

The only argument that can burst through this is that capital cannot handle this, and that we need socialism - particularly a socialist care system.
I don't want this to be interpreted as a dunk, but I think a great deal more material analysis needs to be put into this if we are ever to overcome the deeply barbarous results of these positions *both* being wielded by the bourgeoisie.
In Britain, those who are being given ever greater power are eugenicists. Biden has an open eugenicist in his COVID response team.

The "lockdown" cannot be separated from the realities of class power, the crisis and the reaction of those who rule us.
Please, don't make disabled people into a political prop for an argument. Analyse the concrete conditions facing disabled people if you wish to talk about disabled struggle or conditions.
I understand that the location being discussed is the US, where lockdown has never existed in any real medical sense at all. Look at what is happening in Britain, probably the closest parallel to you ideologically, to see where it can lead.
An aside: what we are living through is not 20th Century fascism or really much like it. It is collapse and *the capitalist class and system* hardening into an extinction cult.
I find it really disturbing that a eugenics programme against disabled people is only popularly discussed as a potential as it is happening ngl. The one parallel with Nazi Germany I find apt is that those who weren't hit didn't do anything or bother to look until it was too late.
Like, this thread about Nazi Germany has more interactions than *any* of the material I or anyone else has put out about the realities confronting us. That should scare the hell out of everyone.
Yesterdays protests in London are a stark example of this working to criminalise dissent.

Those out protesting had every right to, and one cannot compromise upon this without giving the state the right to ban dissent outright.
The one-sided view of lockdown held by pro-lockdowners allowed the police to batter pensioners, social democrats and liberals cheering it on as "resisting fascism".

The one-sided view held by anti-lockdowners allows the government to prioritise capital over health as "freedom".
The question is not "lockdown" or not. The question is socialism or capitalism. The former has shown it can both deal with the virus and preserve democratic liberties - see Cuba. The latter has shown it can produce only barbarism. These interventions must be made in both camps.
What has been very thoroughly revealed on the left in this fiasco is that Marxists are very thin on the ground, most positions instead limited to narrow-minded and one-sided liberal individualism.
What people seem to think has happened is that COVID happened and everyone they don't agree with became a card carrying member of the Nazi Party and that's just insane.
Least popular take on the pandemic? Stop looking, you found it.
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