30 May

Any of the passengers in this car could have said ‘whoa, slow down’. They didn’t because they didn’t want to look like killjoys. And so now they’re dead. This is exactly the psychology that is preventing people doing things like wearing masks and avoiding crowds, for Covid. They don’t want to be the odd one out. So it will also kill many of them, if not now, then in the future through chronic infection. That’s what’s at stake here. How badly do you want to keep acting like you’re in high school?