Nice sketch.
Suspense flick opening. Probably a Jimmy Stewart movie. Right?
I hate the things, don’t believe they do squat, and when I have to wear one general where what is called a “mingle mask” which is the mask equivalent of a stringed bikini—it covers enough to keep one out of jail through technical compliance.
That said, keeping track of the d@mn thing is a pain in the back sides, and if you are out and about and going to be needing it on and off it may be more convenient to wear it than to spend a bunch of time looking for it. I’m the sort of person who not only misplaces glasses, but will from time to time flip my reading glasses up to the top of my head only to discover that there is already another pair there.
Yesterday I was looking for my mingle mask only to discover that I was wearing it (they are that unobtrusive and as the only contact points are the ears and a portion of my chin covered by a beard I can sometimes forget about it).
This is really good.
Sounds like the opening lines of a book about a zombie apocalypse.
I thought people driving alone in their cars wearing a mask were bad. Then I saw a man fishing in a skiff, by himself 100 yards from shore. Masked up.
What do you say to people like that?
Sounds a bit like the Italo Calvino novel “If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler” in which he spends the entire novel writing an introduction that never ends.
Watched a similar situation recently at Chimney Rock in NC. A masked couple gets out of their car in the parking lot. Both pull down their masks and light up. They both already look winded. Once finished, they stub out their smokes and head up to the entry plaza for the ascent to the top. There are two ways up to the top of the mountain...either an elevator, or a well-built, sturdy set of stairs (500 steps). I’m guessing they took the elevator.
Chris Martenson has a new video on Mass Psychosis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0x8meVJkMw
This is what we are seeing now with the Covid panic.
Humans have been making total clowns of themselves since they crawled out of the caves!
Spent a week at the grand canyon. Yes, idiots were walking around outside with masks on while hiking, alone, with no one else around. I am not kidding.
It was literally a breath of fresh air.
Repeating once again for the millionth time; can’t fix stupid.
You can lead a moron to water but you can’t make him think.
AntiVax song in the top ten banned by YouTube yesterday:
https://genius.com/Bryson-gray-lets-go-brandon-lyrics
Verse 1: Bryson Gray]
Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember)
How you woke, but you haven’t opened your eyes? (You ain’t see)
These politicians are demons, just in disguise (Facts)
Look at Kyrie Irving and Nicki Minaj (Let’s go)
Look at Australia, that’s what’s comin’ next if we don’t stand up
Stop complyin’ with them takin’ our rights, it’s time to man up
‘Publicans votin’ for red flag laws, that’s just what I can’t trust
If you ask questions ‘bout the vax, then they gonna ban us (It’s true)
Ayy, this is ‘bout control, everybody knows
Everyone complies weigh the cons and pros
I don’t need a plane, I just hit the road
I do what I want, I can’t sell my soul
Market ‘bout to crash, this is what you chose
Ruinin’ the country, I think that’s the goal
You gon’ take the mark, I take narrow roads
I’m a man of God, I can never fold
It is Saturday morning and light rain is falling. I am sitting at my computer drinking coffee.
My desk is set up by the bay windows at the front of the apartment because that is the best natural light.
My apartment faces another building across the parking lot. There is a man standing under the overhang smoking a cigarette.
There is nobody else around. He finishes his cigarette and puts it out. He puts on a face mask, picks up his plastic garbage bag, and walks out into the rain to dispose of it in the dumpster. He is not wearing a hat.
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Definitely film noir script potential here.
The one that cracks me up the most is seeing motorcyclists out in the fresh air and sunshine, wearing masks but no helmets.
Absolutely crazy.
I live in a very nice senior apartment complex with lots of lawns, trees, and 225 apartments. None of us wear masks outside, but haul them around to wear in “you must be masked to enter” mail room. A few of us don’t bother with that either. I know one woman here who works in the hospital who got covid. Stayed home for two weeks with what felt like a bad cold. One week to get over it and second week to be sure she felt OK.
“We’re all gonna die” mentality is a joke.
I just remembered way back at the beginning of this whole scam I put together the following business proposal:
1) The client pays me one million dollars.
2) I stock their house with two weeks of food and liquor.
3) I inject them with covid-19 and lock them inside the house.
4) I come back in two weeks. If the client survived they are free to resume their normal life.
In retrospect, this business model would fall apart at steps 3 and 4:
Step 3 fails because nobody has ever isolated covid-19.
Step 4 fails because even if the customer lived they still have to get vaccinated and wear the stupid mask.
Mass hysteria will do that.
This scene could not have taken place in Commiefornia. Cigarettes are all but illegal here.
In all seriousness, it doesn’t make sense that he is wearing a mask to protect his respiratory system, but smoking a cigarette.
He’s back!
I guess we both have the same schedule and routines.
It is Monday morning. My neighbor comes out with his plastic garbage bag and pauses under the overhang to enjoy a smoke.
He finishes his cigarette, stubs it out, puts on a face mask, picks up his garbage bag and walks out into the rain to throw it away. There is nobody else around. He does not wear a hat.