Posted on 05/26/2022 6:48:30 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Really? Wow…how summer of 2020.
Masks have almost disappeared where I live. I went grocery shopping this evening and didn’t see a single mask.
It seems that Asian people are the only ones I see wearing masks. I don’t know why.
I stopped at a red light and noticed the woman in the car beside me had her mask under her chin. Both of our cars had the windows rolled up.
I sneezed. She jerked her head to look and she immediately put her mask on.
Not necessarily. I’ve been calling masks “pieces of dirty laundry you strap on your face” for a long time. I believe masks are useless and nasty and have said so all along.
Around here there are many non-Asians wearing masks, as a sub-group however Asians do seem to be over-represented among mask wearers. I am not sure why, but I suspect it is because many come from large urban areas where the air bad and they are already accustomed to wearing masks.
The breadth and depth of ignorance and inanity in most colleges is truly breathtaking … oh, and as is the level of cowardice, particularly among college “men”. It really is an astonishing thing to observe.
I reflexively stop reading when I see the word “bombshell”.
Where's here?
I cut down wearing a mask while shopping inside after I got my third Moderna shot in November 2021. I have never bothered wearing a mask outside, especially while walking my child and dog. I was getting a little worried about the age of my second vaccination in the Fall of 2021 as Delta surged. I got my second dose in September 2020, so it was over a year old which was double the time for getting the half dose booster. The vaccine trial company maintained a strict protocol of getting third doses to the highest risk members of the study, so I got deferred til November. Of course that meant I would not be able to travel outside the US til December, because they have to take blood samples a month after the vaccination.
By then my US passport was didn't have enough time left on it to travel outside the US. So I didn't get to travel to Ukraine for Christmas. My wife extended her trip til March, because when she arrived in October her grandmother was in the hospital recovering from COVID and didn't come home til mid November. Her grandmother did have the first 2 doses and probably would not have survived without being vaccinated. I considered getting an expedited passport in order to to meet up with my wife and son in Ukraine and travel to Odessa, Kyiv, the Carpathian mountains, and Lviv, but every time I got more information about how to get a passport renewed quickly, the news about the impending Russian invasion got worse and worse.
My wife has a friend who lives in San Antonio and made a week long trip to Odessa in February to take care of inheritance matters. I thought she was crazy to travel to Ukraine at that time. She flew back to the US on the Monday before the invasion. My wife stayed with our son and was there on February 24 when the war started. She and my son ended up evacuating to Moldova on the third day of the war and saw a burning Russian fighter on the ground on the way out. I think they were in much more danger from the Russians than from COVID.
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