"COVID-Cautious Americans Feel Abandoned"

[thucythucy]

39. I wear masks out in public.

Aside from Covid, I have close friends with cancer who are in chemo, and I don't want to take the chance of spreading something to them while their immune systems are so compromised. Because so few people mask, they're forced to live under virtual house arrest, or risk getting sick every time they go out. Not that everyone masking would eliminate the danger, but it would definitely mitigate it, and at such small cost to the general public.

So it pisses me off that such a trivial inconvenience was and is seen by so many as evidence of what? Tyranny? Wokeness? A bridge too far?

Imagine the contemporary reaction if we were asked, as people were during WWII, to comply with gas and food rationing. Imagine having to obey blackout restrictions for those along the coast, so enemy submarines couldn't pick off freighters at night.

Tyranny! Wokeness! Whaaaaahhh!!!