The man is deriding a casual callousness he perceives, seemingly attributing it to the coronavirus lock-down.  He does an example — a young woman walking quickly, and before passing an old woman walking slowly yells, “Hey!  Speed up!”. The man calls out the young woman, receiving only a dirty flare from her as she speeds on ahead.

The problem is the thing is not necessarily attributable to anything.  Correlation requires some data indicating the woman wouldn’t have acted that way absent the current era — certainly lots of jerky before — as there will be afterward.  Further, that things aren’t offset by any increase in “random acts of kindness” — though that May just offer a separate effect — extremes and cultural bipolarity.

It is possible the man wasn’t touching on anything and was probing the modern world in general — that whole “kids these days” line.

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