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Huh. Haven't seen anything in the news that could explain this. Maybe there's a big football match on and they all went to that? Really weird. https://twitter.com/naomi2009/status/1260136533056786433
Like, stuff about ending lockdown aside, this is just the most bafflingly framed tweet. As if she genuinely has no idea why businesses might be closed at the moment.
"It is like World War III has taken place". Like, yeah. It is. Did you...were you not aware of the whole...millions infected...global pandemic...all that, you know, that stuff?
It's sort of that classic blend of privilege and subtly equating wanting to protect yourself and your family with cowardice that is so fashionable among arseholes this year. https://twitter.com/Liminalitea/status/1260524646266556422?s=19
It's a really worrying development, that second bit. 1 billion years ago, in March, we wrote this thread about what an important test of humanity (in both senses) these days would be. https://twitter.com/smolrobots/status/1242582271867138049?s=19
Risking the lives of everyone around you is not bravery.
