What is a trigger anyway?

Everyone’s susceptible — not just “snowflakes.”

Photo by Spenser Sembrat on Unsplash

My hometown’s Facebook group has been filled with agitation and complaints about people not wearing masks in public. Included in the comments on a recent post like this were two succinct words from an older man: “Stay triggered.” It was intentionally dismissive, which is bad enough on a normal day but horrifying during an international crisis (because ideally, this might…