I haven't been writing for a while. Life has been so busy and I didn't feel that I had the time, energy, muse to write anything. Well, today, I seemed to have a rant in me and here it is.
Part of the inspiration for this is that I just found out that a co-worker of my husband's tested positive and at the same time, my sister wrote some anti-mask stuff and I am not at ease - let's just call it that...
I am so tired of all the people that want to argue masks - wearing masks as if it is something that is such a big deal.
It is the same people that are wearing pants when in public, There are signs on the stores that read
No shoes - No shirt - No service.
Maybe those signs are only in warm areas by the beach. I don't know. the whole deal is that for some reason, we have decided that we should be wearing clothing while out in public,. a mask is just a piece of clothing - nothing else. A piece of clothing that is protecting us and others.
There are work areas you only can enter with a hard helmet and steel-toed shoes - to protect the worker from things that could happen. Do people protest? No. I don't hear that God told them that they can wear barefoot in those areas and shouldn't wear shoes to protect them from nails.
It is that we only see danger when it is visible. That if we can't see, we can't know?
I don't know. But I think that all those that are railing and ranting are masking some deep fear they have in themselves.
Is it fear of knowledge? That we have to admit that something is dangerous. Or fear of not conforming to some ideology that seems to be out there right now and is so far from common sense.
All that argue against wearing a mask must also argue against a doctor wearing a mask and gloves during surgery, right?
Oh wait. It took a long time for doctors to wash their hands between patients since they thought it was nonsense - even though, and forgive my ignorance here because I don't remember the name of the doctor who tried to promote handwashing between patients - mostly woman having babies at the time and dying like flies- anyway, even though that doctor showed great patient outcomes when he started washing hands between each exam...
