Does Shaming Work? Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, hacks and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Lifehacker Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a fix. Nine months and more than 290,000 deaths into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is facing a crisis within a crisis. In addition to contending with the spread of a highly contagious virus — and the overcrowded hospitals and overworked medical staff that come with it — we also have to deal with living alongside people still don’t think the pandemic is real and/or who refuse to participate in public health strategies, like wearing face masks.