Posted on 09/19/2021 9:41:37 AM PDT by billorites
In line recently at a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Florida, John DiDonna worried that a nearby shopper was standing too close for Covid-era comfort. DiDonna asked him to take a step back. The shopper, he says, stepped even closer.
DiDonna says he snapped. “Do you love me that much?” he barked. The other person argued back; DiDonna retorted with “a sprinkling of four-letter words,” he says. “Afterwards, I was mortified.”
The theater producer in Seminole County, Fla., says he has a shorter fuse these days after 18 long months of the pandemic, grappling with decisions about masks during rehearsals, employee vaccinations, and whether and how to continue performances. “It’s the navigating that’s exhausting,” he says.
If it seems like more people have a short fuse lately, you’re not wrong—at least, not according to the restaurant servers, airline workers and customer-service trackers who say they have seen a wave of tantrums. At home, at work and out in public, many of us admit to blowups, which we soon regret.
The whipsaw of renewed gloom from the Covid-19 Delta variant following the burst of optimism from spring vaccinations makes the current pandemic phase more grueling than past ones, psychologists say. It’s getting harder to muster empathy or regulate our knee-jerk reactions, they add.
“When you anticipate something is going to be temporary, you’re able to absorb a higher level of stress,” says Pauline Wallin, a psychologist in Camp Hill, Pa. “When things don’t work out as expected it makes us more prone to be aggressive with ourselves and with one another,” she says.
Companies that track consumer behavior are observing unusually high levels of crankiness and dissatisfaction. Customer satisfaction is at the lowest level since 2005, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which tracks the behavior of 300,000 consumers across 46 industries.
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Blame the draconian lockdowns that don’t stop the 99.99%+ survivable disease, just the global economy.
So, people resent being treated like animals. This is some profound insight?
No, the government has had a temper tantrum and their sheep sycophants love their new found power to enforce rules at large.
Adults are pushing back in restaurants, planes, and home.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”. ― Robert A. Heinlein
A whole lotta folks need to settle down. Wow...
They can impose on you however they please, however unreasonable. If anyone pushes back or refuses, it’s a “tantrum”.
Th3 left have done a masterful job of scaring the crap out of low info peeps and turning friends, and family, and coworkers, and acquaintances etc against each other
Rules for radicals
I like this. The ones acting out are leftists and finally they are out in the open. I’m glad I’m not too old to protect myself from harassment and possible assault. If you aren’t willing to defend yourself, you deserve your fate.
Of course he was. Lefty children get a little push back to their obnoxiousness, and their emotional fragility leaves them "mortified", "horrified", or "terrified".
I find it to be more hillarifying.
Being forced to act irrationally, particularly through demands from strangers, is something most people will not tolerate much longer. My response to such a command takes the form of a no-nonsense statement while maintaining no-nonsense eye contact: "You can no more force me to put on a mask than I can force you to stop acting like a bully."
If the bully persists and demands I obey them or leave, as I turn to go I say: "You need to know that I have as much contempt for you wearing a mask as you do for me for not wearing one, you bully (or punk; whatever)."
At any hint of nearby Karen behavior, I start coughing immediately.
It works wonders!
No doubt. I suspect it could cause a stampede in some places (like Trader Joes or Costco) which have sacrificed rationality to emotion.
I blame the democrat taliban party and all its voters.
After an incident on a flight this summer I’ve begun to think many adult Americans are spoiled rotten children. Covid is just the stressor that makes people show their true selves.
A theater producer who gets scared in a grocery store.
Sounds like the very definition of somebody who needs curbside pickup and a binkie.
Yep, that’s it exactly: we’ve become a nation of whining, greedy, short-attention-span children. And our exalted “leaders” are a bunch of bossy, emotion- and fashion-driven junior high girls — of both sexes. The feminization of everything continues apace, and these are the predictable results.
I haven’t seen it reported online but unvaxxed people have told me they noticed a change in the attitude of their relatives and friends who took the jab. More anger and confusion.
i blame their parents. These folks 40 and under have never ever been told to sit down and shut up.
Now they are big fat adults and still having the same meltdowns they did in pre school.
Someone should have told them to knock it off along time ago.
“I haven’t seen it reported online but unvaxxed people have told me they noticed a change in the attitude of their relatives and friends who took the jab. More anger and confusion”.
I think part of that is due to some waking up and seeing that any so called benefits of the vaccinations are outweighed by the risks. The word is slowly getting out despite the attempts to censure it.
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