‘If I followed me, I would mute myself’: confessions of a former pandemic shamer

I yearned for the partiers, the people posting as the virus raged, to be publicly shamed. But everyone is processing this differently, and I can't change that

If I followed me on Instagram, I would mute myself so quickly.

I found myself thinking this often over the last two years, shame winding its way into the back of my brain after I'd log on to share my daily array of Covid-related information.