I live in NY and there were signs in restaurants saying that you needed a state-issued photo ID and CDC vaccine card to take a seat. This was definitely just about compliance given that someone could order at the counter and leave without showing their papers. After the vaccines didn’t end the pandemic the solution became “more cow bell.” They just couldn’t help but double down on stupid.
Was the thinking something along the lines of “I did what I was supposed to do, now I think I should make other people do the same”? There are parents in my school district that wanted to bring masks back in the fall despite an absence of evidence it will do anything against delta or omicron.
I'm generally uncomfortable with armchair psychology so I'm reluctant to give this a definitive answer. I agree that a worrying amount of individuals exhibited what seemed to me to be irrational paranoia. It's not at all irrational to be afraid of COVID-19, but if this is a rational fear then I would expect people to treat similarly-situated risks of harm with the same seriousness, and I did not see that.
I threw a party with the intent of getting quite drunk and having a good time. A friend showed up while I was tipsy but not sloshed and I yelled across the crowd at her "Sam your nipple is out" with the same intent in mind. Her nipple was not in fact out (it was a recent accidental burn), and it was not the right thing to do at the time (I've been told).
I live in NY and there were signs in restaurants saying that you needed a state-issued photo ID and CDC vaccine card to take a seat. This was definitely just about compliance given that someone could order at the counter and leave without showing their papers. After the vaccines didn’t end the pandemic the solution became “more cow bell.” They just couldn’t help but double down on stupid.
Was the thinking something along the lines of “I did what I was supposed to do, now I think I should make other people do the same”? There are parents in my school district that wanted to bring masks back in the fall despite an absence of evidence it will do anything against delta or omicron.
I'm generally uncomfortable with armchair psychology so I'm reluctant to give this a definitive answer. I agree that a worrying amount of individuals exhibited what seemed to me to be irrational paranoia. It's not at all irrational to be afraid of COVID-19, but if this is a rational fear then I would expect people to treat similarly-situated risks of harm with the same seriousness, and I did not see that.
"...thereafter be able to work out with a mask..." -> without a mask?
"...it just needlessly burnished whatever credibility..." -> tarnished?
Thank you! I fixed my mistakes, and yet they will forever live in the inboxes of my subscribers. There is no hiding this shame.
You seem like someone who would tell someone they have egg on their face. Better to know, I think.
I threw a party with the intent of getting quite drunk and having a good time. A friend showed up while I was tipsy but not sloshed and I yelled across the crowd at her "Sam your nipple is out" with the same intent in mind. Her nipple was not in fact out (it was a recent accidental burn), and it was not the right thing to do at the time (I've been told).