Like I said....
So GLAD I'm a Texan!
We will surely see an increase in cases, but most people seemed to want to ease the restrictions.
Something I've noticed - the people I've dealt with in the stores and restaurant drive-thrus have been EXCEPTIONALLY nice and friendly and helpful. Noticeably nicer and more helpful. It's been good to see.
My son-in-law had a lady come up to him & give him grief about not wearing a mask the other day. He was filling the fuel tanks at a convenience store, outside on the parking lot, with no one within 20 feet of him. Until the lady walked up and got ugly. He didn't have much patience with her.
Not everyone is nice and friendly and helpful, I guess.
Quoting: justanothergranny Quoting: Simple27 Here's the problem with not wearing a mask right now. Not wearing a mask is dangerous. It is also a slap in the face to everyone who has been doing their part in staying at home indoors for the better part of two months and the millions of dead around the world.
This should never be a political issue, though. Everyone should do their part in this. Because of a few people's refusals to follow the rules for no reason than to dab a few grey hairs with some dye, we're going to have a devastating second wave of coronavirus when it hits.
The virus is not gone just because Trump says so, it's a political inconvenience to him, and because he refuses to listen to his experts. Not just his experts - any experts. They don't work that way. We are far from a safe environment to stop social distancing and easing these measures. Everyone gets the virus - it's not just old people. We should be doing this for another month to eliminate the virus and save more lives. Deaths due to this virus are unacceptable.
And the mask is a temporary inconvenience. The myopic shortsightedness of some is just unbelievable to me.
I don't have the luxury of throwing social distancing to the wind living with my close to 65 and high-risk mother. But you know what? Quite frankly, wearing a mask does not bother me in the least. I'll gladly do it to save lives and lower the risk to her significantly when necessary. Masks should never be such an emotionally charged issue.
Ok. We have to wear a mask. Get over it. It takes 2 seconds to put on. And 2 seconds to remove. That so many people are so against saving lives by not wearing masks is unbelievable to me also. That they can't spend those extra 4 seconds out of their day to help someone else for the short time they go out is astounding to me.
I'd rather wear the mask than get thousands of holes punctured in my lungs or be on a ventilator with a lifetime of damage. The temporary inconvenience far outweighs the risk. And it's not even an inconvenience at all. Wearing a mask? So what. It's not a big deal.
I get it...people are out of work and they want to go back to work. But, it's not going to be an instant recovery. We're not going to wake up tomorrow and be back to normal because Trump says so.
Life doesn't work that way.
And the second wave will be deva...stat...ing.
In my Morpheus voice: let us hope that I am wrong.
*steps down off of soapbox*
Much love to you, granny.