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Social Distancing: You Keep Using That Word
On social media these days I’ve noticed a funny phenomenon: People will post pictures and videos and make claims that we know on their face are bonkers. Like “we’re enjoying this socially distanced hangout!” and the folks in the picture are inches from each other. Or this from Ireland Baldwin,
Come on, we’re not stupid. Do you honestly believe that all of these young 20-somethings strictly quarantined for two weeks and got nasal swabs so that they could hang out together? We weren’t born yesterday.
But here’s what’s annoying about these bald-faced lies: They always come from folks who spend all of their free time shaming everyone under the sun for the same kind of behavior. This post from Baldwin was only a few days before that birthday party,
I’m exhausted of the moral preening and performative nature of this pandemic.
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I was recently reading a post from a guy from New York or Long Island who got COVID-19 in April, and he had a really bad case of it. I think he said that he always wore the protective equipment on the few times he left the house. I guess someone brought into his house.
Me too! And as for all the testing, technically it only tells you what your status was at that particular moment in time. It’s entirely possible for you to catch the bug from the person giving the test and pass it on without ever knowing you had it. I’m not saying testing doesn’t have its place, but it’s not the shield many seem to think it is.
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Shouldn’t that be “anti-social” distancing?
This behavior is why the bulk of new cases in my county are 20-something white kids and gradually including older teenagers. (I work with our local data.) maybe they don’t get too sick, but they tend to be super spreaders.