The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’ “I deal with anti-maskers constantly at work. They have threatened to hurt me, tried to get me fired, thrown things at me and yelled ‘fuck you’ in my face. If wearing a mask in the park separates me from them, I’m cool with that.”
I wear a bandanna... If people ask I just tell them I'm there to rob the train. They tend to leave me alone after that.
I Got In A Fight With A Stranger. Then She Pulled Down Her Mask And Coughed In My Face. My mate's having difficulty emerging from quarantine, due to the number of people who've demonstrated that they're not neighbors, or members of our community, but strangers who couldn't possibly give a shit if you died (70% MAGA Cult; 20% vaccinated). Reminding her of all of those who have conclusively demonstrated that they're true friends, neighbors, and members of our community doesn't seem to help (when the gas shortage hit, Medicaid Transport cancelled all runs, and my mate had an appointment in another state with a specialist she'd waited 9 months for. Someone she's never met jumped up and offered to drive her to Chattanooga. That kind of people). I wish she'd stop reading the news on that goddamned cellphone; it only seems to frighten and grieve her, and increase her sense of disconnect. “And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Get Vaxd and go out in public as little as possible and at times when the crowds are lowest.. wear a mask or dont just stay the fuck away from me
Walmart mask policy: Company drops requirement after CDC mask guidance Walmart and Sam's Club will no longer require customers or employees who are fully vaccinated to wear masks, the retailer announced Friday. The change for shoppers is now in effect and will be on the honor system, Walmart confirmed to USA TODAY. It comes a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new masking guidelines.
States ranked by percentage of population fully vaccinated: May 19 States ranked by percentage of population fully vaccinated: May 19
Hmmmm. Decisions, decisions. So if you get a needle poked in your arm, free doughnut.... but if you don't get poked, you can dress like it's Halloween for the rest of your life.... hmmmm
Back in my youth, several local people asked me what I was doing in the front garden and porch and why I was doing it outside on a cold November afternoon. Surprisingly, no one was too surprised when I told them that I was building a bomb and I did not want to risk blowing the house up. Needless to say, most people walked off laughing, but one miserable old woman went and reported me at the police station. I still imagine her peeping through the curtains when the policeman arrived on his bike. As all police did in those days, I got the customary greeting "What are you up to sonny Jim".... After some explanation, he seemed enthralled and spent the next hour talking about his experiences as a bomb disposal engineer during WW2. On the 5th, firework night in the UK. he even arrived on his bike to watch me blowing a dead tree up in the local recreation ground. His one concern was my unscrewing the door on the lamppost in order to connect my mains operated detonator. However, when I mentioned that my late father (he died when I was 9) was the chief electrical engineer for the UK government, he was fine. How things have changed over the last 60 years. Our daughter (who is a London police officer) always laughs, but I am sure that it has influenced her approach when she gets a call to youngsters causing problems. She always manages to send them on their way without any arrests or drama and as a result they smile and say hello when they pass her in the street the next day. A few weeks ago, she was talking about a guy who she had stopped for having a child unsecured in his car. I simply went to the photo album and showed her the the picture that Jane took when she was 6 years old. She was sitting on my lap driving our car through London. She was indignantly telling me when to depress and release the clutch while she was changing gear. Needless to say, during the gear changes I had to take care of the steering, which she called the aiming handle. PS, She passed her advanced test last month to drive the 170mph fast response police vehicles.... Needless to say, I joked about her not having her children on her lap during the test
