First, I’m starting this off with a picture. I took it. The book 1984 sprawled in front of the apocalyptic images which we like to call 2020. We’ve burned ourselves to the ground. It seems.
Here’s the picture.
We all know the position we are in as a society. And it’s been well documented the world we live in seems more like that of a science fiction movie that you and I would have turned off without getting any popcorn.
There’s a pandemic, a psychopath leading the country who only cares about being liked, riots in the streets, hurricanes slamming the east coast, fires burning the west coast, the media is all state or corporate sponsored but it doesn’t matter because the government is corporate sponsored, and the richest person in the world is getting richer by exposing the pandemic and fears.
All while a group of people rally in Utah claiming they will no longer wear masks.
These rallies are happening everywhere, but I rather enjoy picking on the seeming inability of people in Utah to care about even a single soul rather than themselves. A white cluster of bad ideas is Utah.
But here’s what got me thinking. My drive home. Not from Utah. From work today. Through all the smoke from wildfires.
And now watching this local baseball game on television with no crowd but the stadium is full of smoke. Second game of a doubleheader. All those cardboard cutouts behind the plate.
People aren’t going out. They are staying in or coughing or complaining about smothering smoke. Most people in my area will wear masks when shopping, but there are certainly many backward thinking people.
They don’t wear their masks because they cannot see the virus. People see the smoke. They can imagine the harm it will do to them.
The people who were at the news clip of the rally in beautiful Ogden, Utah were complaining that they can’t breathe with masks on, that the virus is a hoax, and one lady even yelled that child molesters love masks. She yelled it. I hit rewind. I checked. It was not my grandmother.
One brave supporter of mask cancelling was a woman who explained that George Floyd said he couldn’t breathe and people got mad. She used modus Ponens, I believe, to suggest she is being forced to wear a mask to her ultimate death because she “cannot breathe.” It goes like this.
Given: George Floyd said he could not breathe.
Given: George Floyd ultimately died.
Statement: Person who hates masks says the mask makes its so she cannot breathe.
Conclusion: If she is forced to wear her mask, then, like George Floyd, she will die.
Let me get out of Ogden. I said I would never go back there, here I am dedicating paragraphs to it.
But Ogden, much like many people in this country, believe in a supreme being which cannot be proven. Their god spreads like the virus being passed from one person to another when one person catches what comes out of another’s mouth. It spews out of their mouths attacking the central nervous system of another.
They say that when Donald Trump held a couple of rallies over the weekend in Utah’s neighbor Nevada, those rallies were being considered super spreaders.
Then what are missionaries and church events for? They are super spreader events. From one’s mouth to the other’s ear.
The people who believe corona is a hoax are the same people who donate 20% of their salary to the church in order to help super spread the word and achieve a higher standing in the afterlife.
I want to tell them to just wear a mask. Isn’t it better to wear a mask and be wrong than to be wrong while not wearing a mask?
Since when did the religious right of the United States of America believe only in what they can see and witness?
People, I suppose, are generally skeptical. I guess. Not really. Unless subjected to conspiracy podcasts, tik tok, and read memes all day.
The mask is like the golden rule, no? Don’t breathe on me if you don’t others to breathe onto you.
I mean, I get it. The smoke is easier to be afraid of. Anybody could look outside and inhale it and even determine it was a hazard on day one of human existence.
Here’s the thing. There are many things which hurt us we don’t see. But science has proven them. They tell us that if a person sits in the sun too long, there is an increase in the risk of cancer.
Can we trust the science? Ever?
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