Over at Vox, Alex Abad-Santos wonders why we are seeing so much bad behavior in public?
It's also driving, and customer interactions.
There is significant evidence that Covid-19 can manifest with subtle, and not so subtle, cognitive impairment.
There is a distinct possibility that many of the people out there behaving poorly are actually ill:
Some people shouldn’t be out in public right now.
Movie theaters have become a lawless land where some moviegoers have no reservations about using their phones after films have started. Sometimes it’s not just a glance at the time, but full-on social media scrolls and posting. In New York City, Broadway audiences are drunk, rowdy, and apparently leaving feces in the aisles of theaters. This summer at various concerts, Albanian pop star Bebe Rexha was beaned in the face, fellow pop princess Ava Max was slapped by a stage rusher, aerial-enthusiast Pink was handed someone’s mother’s ashes, fans interrupted country singer Miranda Lambert’s intimate show with an impromptu photo shoot, and a “fan” threw water on rapper Cardi B. (Cardi responded by chucking her microphone at her water-flinger.)
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According to experts I spoke to, this rash of bad behavior can probably be traced to the pandemic shutdowns of 2020. During the lockdowns, we didn’t have large-scale social events and, no doubt, some people have sort of forgotten how to act now that they’re back.
This is not your mother's throwing panties at Tom Jones.
It's also not people forgetting how to behave. People did not stop driving during the lock-down, and we are still seeing aggressive and impulsive driving.
A significant portion of our population, possibly including me, (I had Covid last year) may be suffering from a viral brain injury.
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