"Expressive individualism"

Ben Shapiro writes in The Daily Signal,

there will be no normalization for those who have made pandemic paranoia a feature of their identity. That’s because the public health establishment Stephen Greenhas now successfully cultivated a large group of people who measure their moral value by just how compliant and panicked they remain over COVID-19.

Fully 68% of people fully vaccinated with boosters remain very or somewhat worried about getting sick from COVID-19 in the next year, compared with just 39% of those who are unvaccinated. This is the precise opposite of what the public health authorities should have achieved—but expressive individualism has won the day once again, conflating one’s feelings with one’s identity group.

Read more here: https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/26/covid-19s-impact-of-expressive-individualism/ Hat tip Stephen Green