That's my take. I see zero evidence of it - as opposed to some people saying, wow, I really prefer working from home, etc. I think there's a lot of people wanting to think that there are some other weird people keeping them locked down, as opposed to covid locking them down.
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Replying to @joshtpm @TaylorLorenz and
Maybe. I'm so traumatized by this year that I get upset, maybe irrationally so, by suggestions that any of it is permanent. And I follow all public health guidance on masks but probably hate them as much as the most egregious anti-maskers so I hope they don't become a norm.
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Replying to @michelleinbklyn @TaylorLorenz and
I mean, I've found the last year a downer too? And I get what you're saying. It is traumatic. It is horrible. Wish it'd never happened and wish it would end. All of it. But I do sense that some people have found a need to conjure these people up because it's hard to be mad ...
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Replying to @joshtpm @TaylorLorenz and
Obviously we'll see in a few months. I think
@zeynep is right here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/how-polarization-ate-our-brains …pic.twitter.com/nQRQ3aGfQZ
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Replying to @michelleinbklyn @joshtpm and
I think one potential trajectory is not that people *want* to stay in this mode, but will not feel safe enough to let go of some mitigations, which is acceptable as an individual decision but comes with costs, but that this will also extend into policy fights. But who knows?
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Replying to @zeynep @michelleinbklyn and
I think the first point is probably expected for some and human nature. People are deeply traumatized. On the policy front, I really doubt this is an issue because the very strong public policy tendency has been to loosen at the first sign of even slight case rate declines.
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Replying to @joshtpm @michelleinbklyn and
Agree, not blaming people. On the latter: we are often loosening the wrong things at the first sign. We should have relaxed outdoor mask requirements by April 2020, for example, and probably should have only as last step relaxed unmasked/high-aerosol indoor activities.
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Replying to @zeynep @michelleinbklyn and
agree and agree. my general point is that I think people have a lot of anger and angst (very understandably!) but there's no foreign terrorist to be mad at. It's a virus. And a lot of that gets projected out at imagined people who are making our lives like this or want to keep ..
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2/ our lives like this once the pandemic ends. When in fact, we're in the midst of a pandemic. And it's mainly the virus, not weird people who like lockdowns.
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Right, nor is it really the fault of the few irresponsible people partying at the Lake of the Ozarks (I mean, not a wise thing but clearly much lower risk by any known measure compared to a huge amount of routine stuff we've done fairly little about). 1/
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I can only conclude that we have not moved that much beyond viscerally viewing illness as a consequence of sin and moral failing—centuries of germ theory of disease and now all that messenger RNA in nanolipids aside.
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Alternatively, maybe people just have very bad intuitions about what's risky? We taught strict rules instead of ways to intuit risk and that makes it hard for people to modulate their behavior circumstantially.
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