""properly washed reusables are as safe as disposables..." Which we absolutely know doesn't happen, and and would offset whatever environmental gains you were trying to make in the first place.It's entirely possible, at least for a while, that a crisis like this will make people focus on what's ACTUALLY important and what's actually useful instead of virtue signalling."

"Could it include bits of the road? Maybe, but I don't think that's what they're saying.This actually sounds more like a good-news story about how ridiculously clean new cars are. Or a bad-news one about loony Greens with no understanding of the concept of "diminishing returns.""

"This is pretty naive.Has anything you have first-hand knowledge of ever been the subject of a news story? An event you went to, a subject you're an enthusiast about? Is the story hilariously mistaken? Of course it is. It's too trendy and simplistic to be talking about "fake news" as some sort of contemporary phenomenon with clickbait from Russian agents, or even about the bias of individual stories from "mainstream" sources. The more ongoing, insidious, ideologically agnostic form of "fake news" is this: after some news event breaks, outlets race to concoct a narrative to structure the story--to give us a reason to care about it, I suppose-- and whoever "wins" that race, that becomes the story, regardless of the spin of whoever is covering it and regardless of whatever additional facts come to light, because who cares we're on to the next outrage."

"Wow, so edgy."