Kaitlyn Tiffany, writing for The Atlantic about ‘Karens’ and COVID–19:
The posts in these subreddits can be insightful when they acutely criticize entitlement. They get—rudely—at the most destructive logical fallacy of the pandemic, which is any wishful thinking that we won’t personally become a vector for disease, even if we’re breaking rules and taking risks for our own comfort. In some cases, these memes are encouraging awareness of bad health practices and singling out behaviors that health experts agree will legitimately kill people.
There are people for whom the assumption is: I can’t get this. And however much the world bends to the demands of public health officials, they–Karens–should not be inconvenienced.