Articles like the one below have been flooding my FakeBook feed for an entire year, and I feel I need to address it. So….
…hang on to your knickers…
Is someone like me to have a problem with this? I don’t. If you think when you go to an eatery that everyone there is washing their hands, good luck with that. I have walked out of more places than I can count after I saw a cook take a shit, got up and walked out without washing his hands, or a waiter picked their nose, or yes..someone combing their hair around my food.
It is absolutely my choice to decide what risks I want to take. In the United States, there is a social contract that you must follow when leaving your home. That is that you accept certain risks. Those risks are that you may come into contact with situations that might kill you.
Now, you have a choice to stay in your home, arm yourself (wear a mask) or do the other things to make you safe. Others have a choice NOT to do those things. If you have a business you have a choice to tell customers they can’t go in if they don’t have a mask. Others have a choice to either don said mask, or not go in. Welcome to America!
I’m annoyed up to my asshole with this idea that 2% of the planet get to control the lives of 98%. It’s bullshit. No different than 600 billionaires controlling the lives of everyone else.
Covid is real. The vaccine is effective. However it is also true that this disease, left unchecked, would have still had little impact on our health compared to everything else in our lives. Masks are just something to get the masses around because our leaders determined that there would be mass panic if they didn’t find something for people to cling to.
People refuse to control the things that really reduce risk like eating less sugar, or exercising, not smoking, not drinking, etc. Nope… “Save a life. Wear a mask” Well…I am saving lives…thousands of them in fact by the many other things I do and don’t do. You want to blame me for granny getting sick? Then tell me the day and time I showed up at Granny’s house and I’ll apologize. Likely it was you who went to see granny and killed her and you fail to take responsibility. Should have stayed in that basement. Nevermind, it’s just easier to blame others.
Here’s one. Want to save lives? Work in a homeless shelter. Work in a women’s shelter. Give to the needy, but stop acting like a fucking martyr because you put a cheap piece of cloth over your face.
Know why no one does the things I mentioned above? It takes effort. It’s easier to wear a mask and act like you’ve accomplished something.
Rex