People determinedly masked up around here everywhere. Going to the dentist or the doctor was already a trial, now it's unbearable with the "wait in your car until we call you", the rigid mask rules, the temperature taking and the 20-covid questions. So I've been avoiding it.
I have no feel for how people are thinking (or feeling) about the Covid crap, since I've spoken to very few people recently. Last fall, I would chat people up coming and going in parking lots and they'd say "oh, I can't wait til this Covid is over" ------ with their masks on. Telling people that if we all just stop doing it will stop it falls on deaf ears.
An old acquaintance admitted on the phone that he and his wife haven't seen their daughter and her husband in a long time. They used to have Sunday dinner together, but, since Covid .......... Daughter works from home, son-in-law is a welder (face shielded therefore), how they'd get "infected" is a mystery, but there you are. I asked if he'd noticed how the flu has disappeared; he thinks it's because of the masks. When I asked how it is, then, that people are still catching The Covid, he had no answer.
The man who called to tell me he wasn't going to mow my yard this coming spring just took Shot 1 of the (he thinks) Moderna vaccine, in spite of the fact that HE HAD COVID IN SEPTEMBER, because his doctor couldn't tell him how long his immunity/antibodies will last. And knowing full well Shot 2 is probably gonna kick his ass.
We have no church; most of the churches around here are pozzed, one has a female pastor
so .... we're pretty much devoid of social contact.
Next door neighbor came by to jaw about something else and when I stepped out the door to see who Gunsmith was talking to, I asked him who he was: he had a mask on. So he removed the mask, revealing his face, and then went to don it again. At that point, I stated that neither Gunsmith nor I were sick, so neighbor made the "from me to you" gesture. I asked if he was ill, he asked "how would I know?" I shot back that there is no asymptomatic spread, and almost before all the words were out, he disgustedly said "oh ok" and he put the damn mask in his pocket. Later, Gunsmith asked why I bothered. "Because he left the mask off, didn't he?!"
As long as I'm not sick, I ain't gonna pretend I'm sick by wearing a mask that'll probably cause other health issues.
Wow, long rant over.
eta: Since I've read over what I've posted, I guess I do have a feel for what people are thinking: they aren't. They've been terrorized into UNsanity.
