Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

To those now claiming that continuing to wear a mask in public places is a sign of mental illness:

I hope you don't get what I got for Christmas - a 14-week knock-out from C19.

I don't want to give that to anyone. You call it a syndrome. I call it concern for other people.

I'm OK now, but the illness was vicious and frightening. It was 14 weeks I'll not see again. For some people with Long Covid, it could be a lifetime. Do they really not care about the possibility that they might inflict that on someone else?

I'm trying to understand the people now bombarding me with mask-hate, and tbh I'm struggling. My best guess so far is that if you have no empathy, you can't understand why anyone else would, so you assume it's some kind of pathology.

There's evidence suggesting that people with anti-social personality traits are more likely to resist the measures needed to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
From the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
h/t @RichardLyonn
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I guess the next question is how and why we have allowed them to dominate public life.

Much of the purpose of the law should be to protect us from people with anti-social personality traits. This breaks down somewhat when they're in charge.