That’s the part that bothers me... the efficacy of wearing masks in environments where you’re crowded together, there all day, and remove them for eating/drinking is pretty much non-existent. It’s security theater. It makes people feel better to be ‘doing something’ without accomplishing anything.

I mean, that is such a new, unprecedented action to turn into a “legal liability”. Perhaps prior, there were examples of people purposefully infecting someone with HIV that could be punished, but how can you “prove” the infection of an airborne virus? And should we be putting legal resources and labels on something…

I feel like we need to figure out and communicate clearly what we reasonably expect people to do going forward. I’m vaccinated and boosted. I’m perfectly happy to continue wearing masks in hospitals and should I ever enter a seniors living space. I’m also happy to continue to test using a rapid test for COVID-19…

Why did this hideous ghoul bankroll the Gawker stuff, again? I forget; they outed him for being gay, right? It really goes to show that money is literally the only equalizer that matters. If you’re born rich, all else — race, sexuality, everything — falls by the wayside.

If you're in the US there was never a proper lock down so normal has always been an option. I'm an essential worker without great health and I've been working at work every single day since the start with no breaks to sit at home. And I've kept myself safe by masking up in public and getting vaccinated and boosted.…

Blah blah blah, yes, its all about you Meredith. The world revolves around you and the kid you willingly decided to have. When you reported on Congress and politics did you just talk about yourself?? I feel this personal essay belongs on a personal blog, not a news outlet ?

There are also plenty people who lived through this pandemic truly alone (unlike the OP who presumably has a family) and are desperate to finally reconnect with the world and restart their lives. The entire premise of this piece is that she endured a special-kind of suffering because she has a child which is so myopic.

I’m fully vaccinated from the earliest days of vaccine availability, I still wear a mask when I go to stores and I believe the medical and scientific community in their efforts to protect us all. However, I’ve also been around long enough to know that it’s delusional to the point of being pointless to expect everyone…

COVID is never going away.

Please try interacting with society again, some exposure therapy will work wonders for your outlook. My partner suffers from anxiety and we’ve been doing little exposure therapy outings to help them manage their feelings within the guardrails we designed together. This practice paid off dividends when we had to travel…

Thank you. Also research into long COVID shows it’s also not a big risk for children:

I understand the fear and I’m sorry you went through a horrible loss with your first pregnancy that naturally made you more risk averse.
But this is a personal essay, and when talking about the pandemic it’s important to separate the individual, emotional, the anecdotal, from the facts that we do know and the public…

What the actual fuck is going on with The Root and it’s bizarre obsession with Awkwafina? Ya’ll keep trying to make ‘fetch’ happen with this thing and this ain’t it fam.

We get it.  Black people hate Asians.  

The Awkwafina “controversy” is pretty overblown. Detractors are basically saying that you’re not allowed to sound like you’re from Queens if you’re Asian? She should be doing karate for you and mixing up Rs and Ls instead? Fuckin yikes.

LOL so true, wish the Root and other so-called “progressives” would stop whining about Awkafina, seriously it makes them sound like they have a problem with Asians.

Thank you. Although I am forever in the greys, I had to comment. This nonsense needs to end. The Twitter outrage machine is just exhausting. I don’t have a blaccent.  How do I get one?  I would hate to lose my membership.

“The whole thing just felt tone-deaf and super awkward.”

I have 3 questions:

The blues singer never trademarked Lady A. She dropped that ball. She also is a relative nobody outside the Pacific Northwest so how the fuck are those bumpkins supposed to know who she is? And her record sales are a grain of sand in the music industry, she doesn’t even have a record label deal. The second everyone…