[papito]

What's striking to me is that it also deepened the supply of assholes. One would think that after one year under effective house arrest people would be happy to see others and be nicer to each other, but the opposite is true.

[goldenchrome]

You think people would be nicer to others if they were prevented from socializing, a basic human function, and taught to fear their fellow man—for two whole years?

[papito]

I don't translate the possibility of someone being infected into my personal attitude toward them. I go out of my way to be nice to service industry people, and tip them extra-well too.

[goldenchrome]

It's nice that you don't seem to be affected by the propaganda, but most others are. This makes society difficult to live in for everyone.

[mlac]

I think people expect other people to be on edge, and some people are on edge, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is the first time I’ve been out in more than a year, and you’re going to be a jerk? NO! I get to be the jerk!