Isn't your "phone call" a Hollywood trope? It's not like you get to gamble on the highest stakes call of your life (oops, line's busy or you misdialed or whatever), but you only get one chance like it's some legal gotcha the cops can pull on a suspect.
RagingNerdoholic
This. It's a wilfully deceptive statistical misinterpretation implying that a woman working alongside a man in the same job is magically making 20-something percent less. If businesses could get away with saving 20-30% on their biggest ongoing expense (payroll) for employees in one half of the population, they would only ever hire people from that half.
When controlled for field, role, seniority, region, etc., the disparity is within a margin of error.
Covid ~~really did~~ is still doing a number on them.
"Mild" COVID causes as much as a 3-point IQ loss and mental health disorders.
I'm not saying it's the cause of everything — lax parenting, lack of firm authority figures, and digital attention monopolization are huge factors — but constantly exposing them to a mass-crippling virus sure doesn't fuckin' help.
Ah yes, trotting out the "mild" narrative to incept it into the public mindset before it before H5 becomes the next "once in a century" pandemic in... the same century.
Pay no attention to the very first case in Canada, a previously healthy teenager with no comorbidities, who's now hospitalized in critical condition. I'm sure it's just astoundingly bad luck, nothing to see here.
Title game on point