Here's another reason Facebook is a drag.
Your high school friends have learned absolutely nothing since high school.
No matter how much content you produce on your own Facebook profile, when you check out your friends' posts it will be as if you'd never posted a thing.
Still predictable, still conventional, still deferential to authority -- nothing has changed.
I have a Facebook friend who said the other day that he would indeed begin wearing two masks because "if Fauci says it, I do it."
This after Fauci has been wrong on schools, wrong on pre-existing immunity (the exchange with Rand Paul was downright bizarre), wrong on a nationwide Christmas "surge," and couldn't be bothered to acknowledge possible side effects of lockdown until at least September.
And yes, Fauci absolutely did flip-flop on masks, his later protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. Oh, and remember his advice to wear goggles?
This whole thing is a twisted religion with anti-prophets.
It's also been anti-profit, of course.
Good luck operating a restaurant at 25 percent capacity, and with a population that's been terrified into staying home.
Good luck running a retail store, which operates at razor-thin margins to begin with, when you can function only at 25 or 50 percent capacity, you have to spend a fortune on cleaning protocols that have nothing to do with how the virus spreads, and you have to devote one of your employees to the task of standing at the door, preventing too many people from coming in.
None of this sounds particularly appealing right now.
In one hour, I'll be on the final workshop I'm doing with eCommerce experts Aidan Booth and Steve Clayton, where we'll talk about how to avoid all this. This is 2021, after all, not 1957. Nothing says your new business has to be at the mercy of these loons.
Sign up right now and I'll see you in an hour:
Tom Woods