It would be nice to have some kind of published list of businesses that aren’t COVID-crazy — businesses that now welcome customers who aren’t wearing masks, and later will welcome those who don’t carry ‘vaccine passports.’
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But there can’t be such a list, because the Karens would find it and go after the businesses.
So it might be time to go old school, and take some tips from another set of outcasts from society: hobos.
During the Great Depression (as opposed to the current Great Pause), people displaced by the government’s overreaction to the financial situation traveled the country by hopping boxcars on passing trains. They had nothing like the Internet, but they needed to communicate asynchronously about which homes were friendly enough that they might provide a meal or a place to sleep, where police officers or dogs were likely to cause problems, and so on.
They did this with ‘hobo codes’ — a system of hastily scrawled symbols that the initiated would understand, and everyone else would ignore, or simply fail to notice.
Here are some of the symbols that were used:
You can see more here.
It was a very creative solution to the problem, and in the age of de-platforming, we might need something like this again — a low-tech way for ‘covos’ to signal that a business is still receptive to people who value liberty more than they crave promises of safety.
Any suggestions for what the covo codes should be, and where they should appear?
