There are many facets to this Crazy Diamond...Believe what you want, practice what you want. Wear a mask or don't. It should be a choice not a mandate. If you are afraid of mortality - that fear has nothing to do with the new perfect disease COVID. It is deeply entrenched and you need to deal with your own fear of dying. I'm 73. In the beginning, I was afraid I'd get it. Why? Simply because of the math. Day after day went by. I hid in my house like a good boy was told to do. The nanny state had its way. I'm creative and wasn't bothered by boredom. I went to the store after a month and very few people were wearing masks (while COVID was "raging through our populace"). I felt more at ease and less alone. But as more weeks went by, I noticed more people were wearing masks. Then I noticed they seemed uncomfortable around me because I wouldn't. Thats fine. as long as they are protected, then we both are. After all, I'm at the other end of a 50 foot aisle....
What began to bother me was they weren't taking their masks off when they went OUTSIDE. Game changer. Now I see people everywhere outside in the fresh air and sunshine wearing those freedom filters. And two things happen in my head. I think about the scene from I Am Legend when the wife asks if the disease has "jumped to the outside"... and also I notice that more and more people LOOK sick with their masks on. They LOOK beaten. They LOOK fearful. And I think, "They lost this round". The Empire strikes first. These people have let their fear control them...
Now we are being told the kids are getting COVID. Class is not even in session. What??? Back when I was parenting, the whole family was sick with something by the end of each September when the kids were attending public school. We accepted it. It was part of that reality. But here I am - 30 years later (and old)... I didn't die from all that green snot and phlem... And this year (since February) I have only heard ONE person cough near me (and she was a grey-hair wearing a mask). One. No other coughs, sneezes, wheezes, perspirations, or fevers. Of course I live East of the Cascades, if that helps. I know it helps my mind. After 30 years in "Little Beiruit" (Portland) I was able to escape back to the land of my youth. And I dont look back.
So I hope all you true believers in masks give your body AND MIND a break from this crap occasionally. ESCAPE...Go out where you can live and breathe dangerously for an hour or two. Out in nature - not just a little strip of green somewhere near your neighborhood. Find a place as Joe Campbell said, where "you don't owe anything to anyone, and no one owes anything to you". Where you can revitalize and recharge. And remember.
R&R, brother. Like in our misspent militarized youth. R&R - and then get back in the fray and WIN. Cuz as Bo Gritz said..."There is no T at the end of AMERICAN"
What began to bother me was they weren't taking their masks off when they went OUTSIDE. Game changer. Now I see people everywhere outside in the fresh air and sunshine wearing those freedom filters. And two things happen in my head. I think about the scene from I Am Legend when the wife asks if the disease has "jumped to the outside"... and also I notice that more and more people LOOK sick with their masks on. They LOOK beaten. They LOOK fearful. And I think, "They lost this round". The Empire strikes first. These people have let their fear control them...
Now we are being told the kids are getting COVID. Class is not even in session. What??? Back when I was parenting, the whole family was sick with something by the end of each September when the kids were attending public school. We accepted it. It was part of that reality. But here I am - 30 years later (and old)... I didn't die from all that green snot and phlem... And this year (since February) I have only heard ONE person cough near me (and she was a grey-hair wearing a mask). One. No other coughs, sneezes, wheezes, perspirations, or fevers. Of course I live East of the Cascades, if that helps. I know it helps my mind. After 30 years in "Little Beiruit" (Portland) I was able to escape back to the land of my youth. And I dont look back.
So I hope all you true believers in masks give your body AND MIND a break from this crap occasionally. ESCAPE...Go out where you can live and breathe dangerously for an hour or two. Out in nature - not just a little strip of green somewhere near your neighborhood. Find a place as Joe Campbell said, where "you don't owe anything to anyone, and no one owes anything to you". Where you can revitalize and recharge. And remember.
R&R, brother. Like in our misspent militarized youth. R&R - and then get back in the fray and WIN. Cuz as Bo Gritz said..."There is no T at the end of AMERICAN"