[DoodleBob]

Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York and San Antonio, Texas. She attained a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on Fernando Pessoa: A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa.

She joined Slate in mid-2003, writing the magazine's Surfergirl column on television and pop-culture. Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now defunct) website/blog called the High Sign. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and The Atlantic and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show. She is a regular on Slate's Culture Gabfest.

Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu". She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

[Noumenon]

Choke on it, stupid. Because you will.

[MNnice]

I used to say that risk-averse people don’t deserve to live in a free society. Turns out they don’t want to.

[walkingdead]

The stupid in this one is strong

[Steely Tom]

Excuse MePlease Notice Me If I’m Not Ready to Unmask

[a fool in paradise]

>>Putting aside the hard science for a moment, wearing a mask in public spaces—especially indoors, where transmission is more likely—serves a broader social purpose: It says to those around us that, whatever our vaccine status, we value community safety.

Tell them that you won’t go anywhere where people gather who don’t use condoms either.

40 years later and AIDS, herpes, etc are still out of control.

[UNGN]

Mental Illness.

[Adder]

Creating issues where none exist. No one gives a great good damn if you want to rebreathe your own crap.

We are just glad you can’t demand we do it too.

[HamiltonJay]

Don’t I don’t care... I figured out you were a pu$$y long before you refused to take your mask off.

[blueunicorn6]

The Atlantic?

The Atlantic is filled with mud, sewage and dead fish.

It’s also the name of an ocean.

[toddausauras]

“....blah blah community safety”. I’m so sick of everyone extolling “safety”. Boring! Women drive a lot of this stuff I’m telling you.

[Liaison]

If you want to keep your dingleberry mask on, keep it to your self next time. If people feel they need their mask more power to them but leave me out of it.

[jdsteel]

Cool.

Why don’t you go full Burka?

[conservativeimage]

Pavlov’s Masks

[rlmorel]

Good God. I would say to this woman:

“Who cares? Wear your mask if you want to! Wear it for the rest of your days. I won’t say ‘Boo” to you. I won’t even judge you! BUT STOP TRYING TO FORCE THE REST OF US TO WEAR ONE!”

[ifinnegan]

Response to this is, No one cares, you narcissist.

[Jeff Chandler]

Putting aside the hard science for a moment

Could somebody direct me to the "hard science" concerning the efficacy of mask wearing?

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wearing a mask in public spaces . . . serves a broader social purpose: It says to those around us . . . we value community safety

In other words, VIRTUE SIGNALLING.

But we already knew that.

[FlipWilson]

She wants to see your manager.

[cdcdawg]

“I made a vow with my family that we would set a high standard for COVID-19 avoidance.”

Their standard for reality avoidance is even higher. Just plain crazy.

[Robert DeLong]

Who cares what you do. As long as I am not forced to wear it.

[mass55th]

"When I walk outside my door into a densely populated neighborhood, I know as little about the life circumstances of the people I encounter as they do about mine."

That same situation existed for her prior to Covid. She could have contracted any number of diseases by interacting with various people on a daily basis. These weirdos act as if there were never any other life-threatening illnesses prior to Covid showing up.