The madness of it reinforced how committed the rest of us are to doing the right thing and how impatient we are with those who wear selfishness like a statement T-shirt.
Coming together to laugh that video out of the park was something light in a dire situation.
But apart from the risk to others'health posed by a woman who will be lodged in lockdown folklore as"Bunnings Karen",there's a dark side and it is becoming increasingly troubling.
The fact that Nash and several others who have chosen this public health crisis as the moment to grandstand ignorance happen to be female is being taken by some as a free ticket to sexism – particularly when it comes to the treatment of middle-aged women.
Now,all you need to do to silence and generally mock her in a socially sanctioned,but sex-specific,way is to simply spit"Karen!"
In a public dialogue already rife with sex discrimination – one more example of which can be viewed inMP Nicolle Flint's on-point post this week about appearance trolling of female politicians – it's all a bit convenient.