Public Occurrences, March 13, 2025

                     March 20, 2020, Brooklyn Bridge.

Just based on anecdotal evidence, I believe that COVID
changed America's psyche, perhaps the hard-wiring in some of us. How could it not?, I reason. It was the only time in human history that much of humanity abruptly stopped being social beings. It was disorienting, bewildering, frightening. In my mind, Americans became even edgier, and violent than we were before. The article below, except for an onservation from one person who NPR talked to, does not address this, or any fundamental mental changes that I feel exist, so I may be entirely wrong. But we are only five years out from the start, and just a few from the putative end.

COVID 5 years later

In their own words: How COVID changed America

(NPR)

"The biggest difference is how confrontational Americans have become. I have never been anywhere else in the world where people feel entitled to be verbally abusive or physically aggressive towards complete strangers. I lived in the U.S. for 33 years without ever experiencing unprovoked aggression, but I've been on the receiving end of it twice in my visits post-COVID. It's really alarming."--Julie Foote

7:51 pm

 

The Next Generation of Frozen Dumplings

 (Taste)