But you can’t really know for sure whether or not you infected someone else. You took that level of risk for other people without their consent. 

Yup, and the more likely the virus will mutate in such a way that it’s either vastly more contagious, or more deadly (which it is anyway because more contagious = more people dying just from sheer numbers), or more likely to be resistant to the vaccine. For fuck’s sake, people. The vaccine is effective against the…

Oh fucking pul-leez. Are you mad at yourself for indulging in the pleasures that other people sacrificed, the ones that made you sick? How many other people did you infect? Are they mad at you?

You have to go outside. You have to meet your delivery person.

That’s the exact opposite of what I’m suggesting. Lacking official leadership on an issue of public health, you as a member of a community have some options: 1) think critically about the issue, research the best behavior you can engage in, and encourage others in your community to help out or 2) throw up your hands…

“that forcing a virus to be an individual responsibility instead of a community one”

Especially because one of the reason I have to deny myself the pleasures that this person enjoyed is exactly because of behavior like hers. The more people blow off guidelines because they just haaaave to try the cute new restaurant with indoor dining, the more the rest of us don’t get to.

“You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.”

You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.

Any book that ‘speaks to [your] soul’ and helps you to verbalise your own feelings has some value. It’s just important to remember that there’s a difference between an inspirational memoir and an actual, fact-based study of general trends.

This is excellently written!

Good post.

Perfect summary.

Thank you!

This post is great.

It’s especially frightening to me when someone as educated as Wolf becomes radicalized. Yes, I’ve met some pretty stupid smart people, but at the very least she should understand how reliable sources work. 

“There’s more risk to a healthy 58 year old from social isolation, and lack of Vit D from being inside, than from COVID. But more importantly: in a free society, my risk is respectfully none of your business.”

It’s a huge problem.

She’s very firmly committed to being wrong about many things. She posted on Twitter this weekend, bragging about eating at a restaurant with a large group of people. https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1358261762496344067

Why I got from this is that instead of reflecting that body type, it was encouraging that body type? Either way, it’s a tangle of reasons that I agree can be intertwined.