Hey Erica! Do I remember your name correctly? I'm bad with names, but I definitely remember you as a person! Glad you're still active. For me, there's too many things demanding my time so I'm not posting at the moment.

If I interpret your 'contagion' as 'competition', then yeah I guess it's inevitable, unless we stop all mutations. Wearing masks of kindness is of course a problem, but masks compete against the ability to detect them! So the best strategy is to be authentically nice!