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The sister of a co-worker of mine just died of Covid. She lived in Missouri some seven hours from where I live. He is there to bury her today.
I don't know how she caught it nor why it affected her so seriously but she's dead. It could be that new variant, I suppose. My co-worker is older, like I am, so I assume she was in the same age range but I don't know if she was particularly compromised otherwise.
The point is anyone who wants to wear mask, I respect. They are certainly responsible for their own well being. If they ask me to wear one in their presence I will comply. The times are still sketchy for a lot of people.
Was she not vaccinated, it sounds? People still not taking it seriously unfortunately.
It seems Walmart attracts those who are most susceptible to classic conditioning, especially from within a certain economic bracket. Of course, I can't speak for all Walmarts, but that seems to be the case for the local stores. I rarely visit a Walmart... too many "special" people.
Some of the anti-maskers caused quite a stir too and were obnoxious about it. I've seen it both ways.
I never saw anti-maskers making a scene but I saw some that were flagrantly violating the requirements in stores. This psycho woman I encountered was either on a power trip or just plain a mental case....she was a fat/obese woman buying very unhealthy foods and I am a very fit person buying healthy foods so I think it also possible that I made her feel bad just because I take my health seriously and she was an unhealthy fatty.
Because Walmart is disgusting? Need to protect yourself from more than Covid there? I honestly don’t know but there is a reason I don’t go to Walmart so maybe it’s just because it’s Walmart. I might wear a mask if forced into a Chuck E Cheeses too…
I feel like donning a hazmat suit when I go into Walmart, especially on the weekend.
The most ideological adherents to mask wearing do seem to be a certain younger demographics, which I find weird given the data shows younger people are barely affected by COVID and with extremely few new daily COVID cases and now even days without any COVID deaths in the entire state. But I do suspect it's political. A certain demographic has adopted wearing the mask as part of their mantra of the morally good and responsible thing to do, which bears no relationship to the reality on the ground. The closer I am to more urban and progressive neighborhoods, the more mask wearing I see. It's quite interesting.
They are extremely conditioned, they look up to their tech overlords as god-like and believe everything that is pushed on them by tech and Big government and academia. Other voices are shut out. They believe "The Science" over science.
People are going around acting like the pandemic is over. It is in remission because of the responsible people who got shots, but with 150,000,000 or so remaining unvaccinated as the most contagious strains we have seen so far are accelerating, things are about to get bad again. Some people get it. Wearing a good N95 mask is a smart precaution.
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