Nearly half of U.S. adults (47%) say the way people behave in public these days is ruder than before the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes 20% who say behavior today is a lot ruder. Another 44% of adults say public behavior is about the same, while only 9% say people are behaving a lot or a little more politely in public.
A sizable share of Americans also say they regularly see rude behavior in their daily lives, according to the survey of U.S. adults, conducted Nov. 12-17, 2024. About a third of adults (34%) say they almost always or often see people behaving rudely when they go out in public these days, while another 46% see this sometimes.
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Ask anyone who works in retail. People have let their inner jerks run wild. My son's theory is that people were fed a constant diet of "being around other people is going to make you sick and kill you" and people have reacted to that. I bend over backwards to make sure I'm polite to retail people as a result. Let them know i consider them a human and listen to their answers when we're conversing. I generally am able to get them to smile at least once during our encounter.
ReplyDeleteI really never understood why people were perks to the guy who did show up when the place was obviously understaffed. Why are you trying to make that last person want to quit?!?
No, it did not. It DID make around half of us willing to call out the stupid, the Karens, the self-absorbed, the idiots.... Covid didn't make us mean, it made clear that we should never put up with the kind of crap we did five years ago. Including being willing to smack 'em upside the haid with a hammer, if necessary. That third who ALWAYS see rude behavior? They're woke liberal retards. They're just not used to being told so.
ReplyDeleteThat attitude has absolutely nothing to do with covid: It's the "we're better than any body else" attitude from the left.
ReplyDeleteWhile the "covid" probably had minimal impact on people's behavior, it is a well-researched FACT that The Jab causes micro-clots and other blood chemistry anomalies that DIRECTLY affect brain chemistry, thusly affecting behavior. For the worse.
ReplyDeleteSo, blame The Jab if you have to blame anything...