[mr_overalls]

> the tribe that reacts to any criticism of public health experts with hostility and threats of violence. . .

The thing with playing syntactic games like this is that your altered sentence. . . isn't actually true. The two sides in relation to COVID research and official guidelines actually do behave differently.

[hagbard_c]

It is as true as the parent version in the sense that neither are absolutely true and both contain a core of truth. Also, there are more than "two sides", it is actually part of the problem that people keep on insisting that everyone who is not "with my side" is "on the other side". The SARS2-related rhetoric has largely been turned into a live role playing version of Twitter with two camps shouting at each other.