Judging a book by its cover

[brin_bellway]

[cw: illness, (arguably) corporate bullshit]


Came across this in the $5 bin at Walmart.







I bet this movie has aged like raw hamburger. *Especially* the inevitable scene in which they clunkily explain the concept of social distancing to an audience presumed not to know it.

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It probably affected my reaction that at the time I saw this, I'd spent much of the past two hours revelling in being able to walk the mall in safety.

A *mall*. I used to get sick a substantial fraction of the time after mall trips, especially multi-hour trips with lots of poking around and window-shopping. This time, I went to the mall, wandered around exploring for hours, and it was *fine*. I did not get sick. I wasn't even in significant danger of getting sick. I did get a lot of stares from the mostly-maskless fellow patrons, but it's not my fault that they're wrong have very different priorities.

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Context note: this post has been lying around in my drafts for a while, and was written before the time I weathered two hours in a room with a maskless COVID-positive person (let alone finding out about it).