In March 2021, when comedian Alex Lasarev sarcastically used a megaphone to congratulate pedestrians for “following the narrative and trusting the news and not questioning anything,” a furious cyclist used his bicycle to smash in Lasarev’s car window at a junction.
As McDonald observed in December 2020, people become “almost giddy with the prospect of forcing their irrational fears and belief systems on other people, because they know they won’t be arrested, they might even be lauded, they might even be applauded.”