Stuck in the binary of lock down versus open up, we failed to consider so many options during the first years that we lived with the virus, and there were so many debates we didn't have. Faced with the torrent of lies coming from the conspiratorial right, many liberals and progressives opted to simply defend status quo measures, despite the fact that we could, and should, have demanded far more.

SEED: The critique that the left failed to think beyond lockdown/open binary could fuel an essay on how reactionary stances limit progressive policy imagination.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 392