The Mask Mandates are Dead, Long Live Whatever Comes Next
March 09th, 2022 by G.
I was often the guy who blatantly ignored the mask mandates. I got a real kick in walking through a sea of masks with my grinning face grinning, daring somebody to say something about. But also sometimes I just forgot.
A few days ago the masks around here just evaporated. Mandates gone overnight.
The strangest thing happened. All of a sudden I started feeling weird not having a mask on in public settings. The brain’s little alarm goes off every time I’m about to go through a door and I have to remind myself we’re all done with that now, and me long before now.
I can’t account for it.
Annie
March 9, 2022
“G, the iconoclast, always wishing to stand out from the crowd?” (She asks with a smile.) I myself usually prefer to be the rebellious non-conformist, but it doesn’t always make sense. Group-think and anti-group-think are sorta the same thing…
Andrew
March 9, 2022
I’m sad to say I still see some, perhaps permanently traumatized, hiding behind masks. I don’t mean older folks in bad health – but really young adults with young children.
Bookslinger
March 9, 2022
I saw the immuno-compromised, and their immediate family, still masked at church. And I rejoiced that they were back at church, no longer limited to online viewing.
Bookslinger
March 9, 2022
Feb 21, 2022 was the first time I shook hands with someone in two years.
It felt… weird.
And I only did it because the nice lady, the wife of a friend, insisted. Two weeks later, I shook hands at church. It was less weird, but still not quite back to pre-pandemic normal.