Travel-Shaming Is Happening, But The Opposite Way

Pandemic changed almost all the ways of our life and travel is the main thing that many have been staying away from, for a while. Though some started traveling already, the global health crisis worrying them throughout the vacation.

People who got weary of quarantine and staying indoors, are now visiting places on a vacation. Well, there starts Travel-shaming, but in the other way round.

Earlier, when people travel to places and show off their holiday with pictures and videos to shame the folks who don’t travel. The pandemic changed the whole meaning of it. In the pandemic time, those who decide to travel not just have to worry about being victims of the deadly virus, but also the victims of travel-shaming by them who stayed home ‘safely’.

Travel-shaming has got a new definition and according to it, people receive criticism for posting pictures and videos of their trips. The new travel-shaming nor the virus spread is not stopping people from traveling, as there were more than 700,000 passengers per day in July last year just on July 4 weekend in the US. On the fourth day of September Labor Day, more than 968,000 passes through TSA checkpoint.

Along with the change in the definition of Travel-shaming, here come two more ‘shaming’ that started in the global pandemic. Mask shaming is the criticism for wearing or not wearing a face covering. Diner-shaming is the criticism on someone who eats put during the pandemic.

We have to see if the travel-shaming goes down without a trace when the vaccine becomes available and everything goes back to normal.