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Spotted at the heathcare centre last week. WTF is the point of putting this up if none of the doctors or other staff ARE WEARING A FUCKING MASK?? They should be leading by example, not living in denial. I saw maybe one other person wearing a mask (other than me and Peter).
WEARING A FACE MASK IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
For everyone in this healthcare facility
We’re here to help protect your health
For everyone in this healthcare facility
We’re here to help protect your health
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The Cute Engineer is currently ferrying a patient to active cancer treatments and most of the people “delivering care” are not wearing masks. (And she can’t, because it’s her lungs that are affected and her blood O2 level drops when she masks and she gets faint.) It’s become fucking insane. Before Covid, they’d have been masked.
Apparently the sentiment is “we hadda wear MASKS alla time because DEADLY VIRUS that is now only RELATIVELY LESS DEADLY so we’ve used up all our tolerance for DOING STUFF WE DON’T WANNA and we have a lifetime pass to not care.”
Honestly I don’t know when people became such babies? There was a time in my life when everyone but people with “behavior problems” (the class asshole in school, the jerk neighbor that everyone hates) seemed to grasp the idea that we lived in a society and that meant looking out for each other using rules and requirements — it was certainly never perfect, but you weren’t “weird” if you were kind of a Boy Scout and followed the directions, observed safety rules, drove the speed limit and the like. Somewhere in the Eighties, as I recall it, it became cool to be an asshole, to take the money and run, to have a Bart Simpson attitude. Rules were increasingly for chumps and suckers. And here we are. I don’t even think the majority of the people who are shrugging off requests to protect the vulnerable, show courtesy etc. are thinking “fuck you” consciously — it’s just in the air and water now. I really hate it here.
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Nah, you just hate people.😉 And I get it. Thing is, people didn’t “become” babies, or completely selfish assholes, overnight. That selfishness is always there as a possibility and it’s up to us to choose how we want to behave. Maybe this is how all consumer-driven societies are bound to end up? Sure seems so.
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Fair enough, I do hate people in general. But something did shift, and it wasn’t ovednight, but there was a point where I looked back and saw how it had crept up. I mean, I was the one clapping back at “The Rules Say” and “you should be a nice little lady” when I was a sprout and I could tell it was being weaponised to shush me and to keep me from calling out bullshit designed to keep me obedient and unquestioning about things like what it was okay to read or discuss, or what my expectations should be because I was born female (dear God, the collective conspiracy to tell me YOU JUST DON’T KNOW YOU WILL LOVE YOUR BABY WHEN YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR ARMS who tf says that to a fourteen year old girl who’s just remarked she isn’t interested in having kids?). I was still the person who stopped for Stop signs, looked both ways, didn’t talk at the movies and so on. We lived in the picket-fence frame house era of Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver, and yeah, that cut both ways; you and I both know that parents weren’t gods or even necessarily decent people, but families and communities where people had some sort of social contract were still shown to us as an ideal. And then at some point it was the Simpsons and Dad is an asshole, and that sold (I never felt interest in the show myself but it filters into the collective consciousness), and overall being edgy and essentially flipping people off became cooler and cooler (and entertainment like that made money, so there was more and more of it). The “Greed Is Good, Get Yours” attitude became something to display nakedly and be proud of. You were cool if you could fuck people over and swagger about it. And here we are with the “Secretary Of War” using a bloated military budget to buy grand pianos and truckloads of lobster and crab and not even trying to make up reasons for it. People used to at least pretend, and honestly that did make a difference? Now it’s just “you asked/told me to so I won’t.” Even if it’s about stepping in front of a truck. I’m so over it.
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