Christine Porath, who's this one business professor that I talked to, who studies just

a rudeness, mostly in the workplace, but it kind of applies elsewhere.

So she has found that the number one reason why people behave in a rude way or in an uncivil

way is because they're feeling stressed or overwhelmed.

So it's not just that like someone is rude to you and you're rude back directly to them.

It's just that you feel crappy, you feel overwhelmed.

You've all had those days when you're like, I can't take one more like freaking thing

and you know suddenly one more freaking thing happens and you snap.

And so that is part of what's happening.

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

So I have a unified theory of life in the late COVID pandemic.

I call it the late pandemic because I don't think it's post pandemic because people

keep getting COVID.

I don't know what stage we're in now.

I do think that the immunity wall that's been built up through vaccination boosters

and prior infection means that it is considerably less severe and acute risk to individuals

and it was a year ago, but definitely not gone.

There are a lot of immunocompromised people.

There's some interesting studies happening around long COVID, a big NHS study just came

up.

So there's a lot we don't know.

I think the level of risk we're all exposed to now is considerably less than it was a year

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