It’s a COVID-19 jungle out there — and poison is in the air we need to breathe
How much needless suffering and dying is enough? Why are we allowing COVID-19 to outwit us?
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people have endured extended suffering and are eternally dead from COVID-19! And this tragedy is still in progress. Furthermore, health care workers are overworked and traumatized; millions of people are unemployed; homelessness is an impending fright for many of us; and hundreds of companies and businesses — small, medium, and large — are extinct.
There has been so much social, psychological, and economic destruction. And the majority of this was not only needless but also for naught!
Because we politicized public health and the act of masking up, here we are still being hunted by the COVID-19 – Delta variant, the bitchiest mutation to date. Moreover, there is a threat of a “smarter” and more sinister variant looming in the future of the fully vaccinated, as well as the unvaccinated. And yet, some citizens are relentless in their commitment to their foolish ignorance. WTF?!
Waste of opportunties. Waste of suffering. Waste of human life.
Frankly, before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended masking up be a thing, I was masking up with my homemade denim mask, which was hot as hell. So yes, I’m exhausted and frustrated. My nose and mouth have been undercover for a long time!
But there are at least five reasons why the lower half of my face will most likely not be seen in public any time soon:
I’m not selfish.
We don’t live in communities of ONE. Therefore, no citizen should have the personal freedom to terrorize the lungs of another citizen. No, we shouldn’t have the inalienable right to make others sick or kill them. This is insanity.
The air is not clean.
It’s distressing enough knowing that other people’s aerosol particles or spit wads are floating around in the air and landing anywhere on my person. But breathing them in, well, that’s just another level of gross.
Recently, at an eye doctor’s appointment, I was instructed to remove my mask to avoid fogging up the test lens. I almost sprinted out at the very suggestion! Except: I need eyeglasses to see. So I talked myself into it and gingerly removed my mask. I haven’t felt that naked, vulnerable, exposed since my first time doing the horizontal dance. I swear I could see those damn, menacing COVID-19 viruses swirling around in the air and screeching “Whee” as they took flight into my unmasked nostrils.
Terrifying.
I’m not stupid.
I am not opening the front door of my respiratory system to welcome that damn virus in, giving it the opportunity to replicate and to get “smarter” at making us hellaciously sick or permanently dead.
I’m staying in bed, Snoopy. It’s too peopley out there. ~ Charlie Brown comics
Yes, I’m fully vaccinated.
But I still limit my outings to essential trips.
I still mask up every time I’m out in public.
I still practice social distancing.
I still avoid groups of more than two other people.
I still don’t have people over to my home to hang out. And I don’t hang out indoors with anyone.
I still sanitize and wash my hands like it’s a religion. And when I’m out, my hands don’t know I have a face.
Yes, it’s wearying! But I’m not ready to get comfy and reckless with my health or life or that of my loved ones. As far as I’m concerned, COVID-19 keeps surprising us, and the vaccines aren’t even a year old. Enough time and experience with this virus and vaccines have not passed for any health organization to know all.
What’s a cold?
If I can help it, I’m not getting another cold or flu. You corral your cooties, and I’ll corral mine. And we’re good. Masks block. Masks make a difference. Full stop.
My disgust is my secret.
Finally, it’s incredulous to me that people are throwing tantrums like two-year-olds or murdering people over mask-wearing. With my mask on, I can sneer at the stupid and the selfish, and they are none the wiser.
So, all that’s left to say is this: If you have the good sense and the goodwill to mask up, thank you!
Putting on mask seems like it would be such a simple thing. I have come to learn many years of social interactions that human stupidity, ignorance and selfishness can be infinite. It seems like we actively look for things that divide us. Wearing masks, consistent hand washing and social distancing has decreased the number of flu and cold cases.
Yep. So many of us lack to intelligence to recognize what we’re losing and how needless it all was. Thanks reading.
Well said. Masking is fun for no one. It is distressing to see people who are forced to be in a mask all during their workday , having to plead with the selfish to wear a mask for your 1/2 hour in a store or fir your 2 hour flight.
Yep. There are no words to fully express this madness and the waste of suffering, life, and opportunity! Thanks for reading.
It seems to me that with so many people wearing a mask in 2020 there was no mention of the flu. This tells me that wearing a mask can protect against other viruses as well. I have decided that even when the CDC says it is OK to stop wearing a mask, I will still be wearing mine. If everyone had followed the mask guidelines when it first went into effect we would now have a different outcome.
Amen.
I’m with Charlie Brown & Snoopy. It’s to peopley out there and a lot of them are downright dumb for not trusting science and getting vaccinated!!!
Yep, Charlie Brown and I are of the same mind.