It is pretty wild.
I remember when Rona first came out I noticed two 'facts' passed around about it that didn't mesh together well. 1) It was incredibly contagious and 2) it was incredibly deadly. The nature of it being as contagious as it is was easily observable, yet that would have meant we'd have mountains of dead if it was as deadly as suggested.
Right wingers initially were panicking and wanting to shut down everything while Democrats and left wingers promoting hugging the Chinese to stand against racism and going down to Chinatown. Then Democrats woke up to Rona existing, panic, and proceed to ask for the most draconian lockdowns imaginable. Meanwhile, right wingers see how Democrats are acting and act out themselves, in the purely political way people could likely have predicted, and decide to be contrarian by looking at the evidence of what's actually happened then proceeding to understand the virus wasn't nearly as deadly as suggested, especially the variant the US has dealt with.
But then thanks to politics all the talk gets more extreme and rather than saying the virus's deadliness is exaggerated it suddenly becomes a hoax. Regardless of all that, it still is obvious Democrats as a body do not believe Rona is that dangerous otherwise they would have denounced the rioting and dancing and whatever other random congregations going on in the streets. They didn't because they don't view it as that dangerous and/or they believe the simplistic precautions like a mask are enough to contain the virus.