Reminder, folks: the COVID19 pandemic is NOT over, it's just that the big commercial landlords decided it was hurting their business rents so leaned hard on the politicians and media to SAY that it's over.
Right now China is in the FO phase of FAFO, and involuntarily providing an amplifier for a new extra-virulent strain that'll make an end run around our half-assed vaccines AGAIN.
Stay safe in 2023!
I will add that masking/distancing/vaccination is all good, but what we REALLY need is forced PM2.5 air filtration in all public spaces. Schools, hospitals, universities, shops, restaurants, cinemas: on trains, buses, planes, and passenger ships. And ESPECIALLY schools and hospitals. These premises have always been viral disease amplifiers, but filtration stops it spreading at source.
@cstross I feel like asking to rebuild basically every public building in the nation is almost as heavy a lift as asking a Karen antivaxxer to wear a mask for 30min in Target, emotionally speaking
@hammancheez @cstross I know this wasn’t your intention, but all the evidence everywhere shows that mask compliance is much greater amongst women than amongst men (and particularly, amongst white women than amongst white men). When you pick an imaginary ‘white lady’ as your typical public health resister, you’re reinforcing a patriarchal narrative about women’s lower intelligence, whether you meant to or not.
@bohemiancoastAs a shopowner, I will say that the competition between white women and white men for UberKaren designation is fierce. I do agree we need a general genderfree term that encompasses the behavior...but "Entitled White Ubertwit" does not roll off the tounge as well as might be hoped.
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