Populist Right:
Was usually stronger on and earlier to institute travel bans.
General association with opposition to “open border” policies.
Can more readily offload blame on China.
Conservatives, at least in the US, are much more “chill” on the epidemic than liberals. (Might change if/as bodies pile up).
Predictive failure of liberal media elites and handshakeworthy experts, e.g. masks disinformation (e.g. voxsplaining they don’t work while their founder bought them for himself), “travel bans don’t work”, wide-ranging failure to predict scale of the problem (while pushing woke anti-racism narratives).
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/corona-politics/
