Do you remember the Seinfeld episode when Kramer got bullied for not wearing an AIDS ribbon during a fundraising walk? I was thinking about that episode yesterday as more "WE SUPPORT OUR FRONT LINE WORKERS" yard signs popped up in my neighborhood. Do you now? My neighbors, almost all of whom are working from home (or are stay at home mothers who don't work to begin with), have all their shit delivered by Amazon or Fresh Direct or Target, and outsource their yard work, house cleaning, and other menial labor to others, "support" our front line workers? Seriously. It is virtue signaling at its worst - the kind of empty gesture meant to make the person expressing it feel better about themselves while doing precisely nothing for the people to whom the support is expressed.
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