I’m really sorry for all the people that did try to stop this, and for the people that couldn’t fit whatever reason. But the idiots that caused it? I really hope they suffer enough to learn at least a bit.
It’s like everyone forgot COVID-19. The administration’s response and almost daily scandal during that barely moved the political needle, and people are even more siloed in now… I honestly don’t know what it would take.
As someone who sat “next” to a child clearly coughing mucus at the movie theater:
Yes, everyone forgot about COVID (and masking). Can’t wait to be sick in a few days!
They need a concept of prejudice that’s simplistic (as in singular) in nature with with a tangible body of people or person/s to blame. It would also need to tie into beliefs that they heard or taught while growing up.
Trying to get them to understand (put two and two together) the different facets of a conspiracy or something that is rigged tends to lose them when there is more than one thing at fault.
I’m really sorry for all the people that did try to stop this, and for the people that couldn’t fit whatever reason. But the idiots that caused it? I really hope they suffer enough to learn at least a bit.
They will not.
It’s like everyone forgot COVID-19. The administration’s response and almost daily scandal during that barely moved the political needle, and people are even more siloed in now… I honestly don’t know what it would take.
As someone who sat “next” to a child clearly coughing mucus at the movie theater: Yes, everyone forgot about COVID (and masking). Can’t wait to be sick in a few days!
My sister just got sick as stink visiting family who didn’t bother to tell her they were sick! She’s coughing up blood!
I know a nurse who’s an anti-vaxxer.
…Yeah, I guess pandemic-conscious hygiene is not on people’s minds.
They need a concept of prejudice that’s simplistic (as in singular) in nature with with a tangible body of people or person/s to blame. It would also need to tie into beliefs that they heard or taught while growing up.
Trying to get them to understand (put two and two together) the different facets of a conspiracy or something that is rigged tends to lose them when there is more than one thing at fault.