Do you read people’s writings about covid? I don’t, if I can help it, for the following reasons:
Unless the writer of an article about what the government has done wrong has some relevant specialist knowledge or experience in pandemic management or epidemiology I don’t want to waste my time. I’ll be able to hear all that the next time I can go to a pub. See also Twitter Toxicity: Beware The Ultracrepidarians
If the article is about how many books they’ve written, talks they’ve given or clients they’ve acquired during lockdown, I think that is highly insensitive to the people who have lost their jobs or struggled on low income. Stop crowing!
If the article is about how awful things have been for them, I think that’s highly insensitive to those who have had it far worse. Elaine and I have been adversely affected by covid, both directly and indirectly, but there’s a lady we know who in the past year has lost both her sister and her father. That kinda puts things in perspective.
Unfortunately, I don’t know that I didn’t want to read such articles until I’ve read them. I can’t unread them, but I never share them or refer to them specifically. As far as I’m concerned, the less publicity they receive the better. I live in the (probably vain) hope that if enough people ignore them they will write about something else instead.
For myself, I try to write only about what I know in relation to covid, which is about online education. This article is, of course, the exception.
