Covid accelerated a shift from name confusion to full conflation of the two Naomis

Evidence

This raised something even more troubling. For a long time, people had clearly been confusing me and Wolf, getting our names mixed up, as happens to all of us sometimes. But as Covid wore on, and all of this not-really-reading took on an ever more breathless quality, it became clear that we were being not confused but conflated, treated as one interchangeable Naomi. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 119

Categorization

• DEFINE: Klein distinguishes ‘confused’ from ‘conflated’ — a key methodological pivot: the device is not mere mix-up but a systematic merging worth treating as data.