August 23, 2020

Interesting article from Newsweek.

A study found that sociopaths are most likely to refuse to wear a mask. Sort of confirms what many of us suspected.

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Sociopaths Are More Likely to Refuse Wearing a Mask, Study Finds
August 23, 2020

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A new study from Brazil has found that people with sociopathic traits are more likely to not comply with mask-wearing and other measures to limit the spread of coronavirus.

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The study investigated the relationship between antisocial personality traits and compliance with COVID-19 measures using a sample of 1,578 Brazilian adults aged between 18 and 73.
Between May 21 and June 29, participants completed a test that assessed maladaptive personality traits as well as assessments on apathy and compliance with coronavirus-related measures. The findings were published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
The researchers found that those who had higher scores in traits including callousness, deceitfulness, hostility, impulsivity, irresponsibility, manipulativeness and risk-taking tended to be less compliant with COVID-19 containment measures, such as mask-wearing, hand-washing and social distancing.

August 1, 2020

Good and bad.

I was driving in the largest city in my red county and saw a truck with “Trump sucks Dik” written in big letters on the rear window. Based upon what they truck looked like, the driver was most likely a young, working class White man. I also notice that there are very few “Trump 2020” stickers on vehicles, in 2016 at this time, there were plenty of vehicles with Trump stickers and “Hillary for Prison” stickers. But to see the window of that truck, with such an “in your face” message was amusing, especially in my red county (though Hillary only lost it by around 10%, even though she put no effort into the county and surrounding area).


On the bad side, I found out today from one of my brothers that an older boy that we grew up around has COVID19 and has been hospitalized for several weeks. He is in a higher risk category (COPD and over 60 years old), so it doesn’t look good. The guy just lost his sister a few months back of a non Covid related cause. I was never part of the guy’s posse, I was younger and bookish and ultimately professional school bound, but from my brother I found out that the guy had led the city’s recreation department for years and just recently won a seat on the City Council in the county’s largest city. My brother thinks the guy likely got infected at his swearing in ceremony, the city’s mayor is an anti-mask mandate Trumper.