There is also a certain irony in repeating the very Boomer mantra that everything before my generation sucked.

But how much of that preference is driven by the perception that only poor people live in apartments?

As someone who lives in DC and can’t call anybody - please take advantage of your leverage!

Wait let me guess - one of those pages had to explain that no you don’t have a receipt for the $3 ride you took on public transit?

Agree with you here! We’ve failed to police a lot of bad science often “linking” (which is a quick way of saying correlation without causation) any object of moral panic with basically any disease common enough for a p-value to show up.

I also feel fairly certain someone could call me a Nazi from dusk til dawn, and that would not motivate me to build concentration camps nor unleash masked thugs to disappear people.