I just did good. My therapist says I should acknowledge that. I don’t want to make the announcement here as I’m just a facilitator, but I just got the people together for a streaming show. I was going to do the tech stuff myself but realized we could afford to pay somebody who will do a better job than me, or is that I? I like me. But I give myself credit for arranging it and quickly. That really is what I’m good at. I’m a natural networker. I even networked to find the person I networked with. He’s a friend but hadn’t come to my mind. COVID-19 is the ultimate disruptor, but along with the destruction comes opportunity.
Did I go out yesterday? Nope, not today either. I didn’t make anything exiting for dinner and I finished off the scrapple for breakfast. Scrapple is one food that benefits from not eating that often. This entire package counted as special. I guess I have to buy it again. Discovering the scrappleeggsandcheese sandwich made a difference. I did go out yesterday! I went to the pharmacist. That counts as an outing now. Remembering that reminded me of what I was thinking about as I walked. There are businesses in the country that are not allowing people in if they are wearing a facemask. This is to protest the requirement that people wear masks. As these people think that telling people what to wear even to save lives is tyranny we should test their sincerity. Nude protests at anyplace that doesn’t require facemasks, and in front of the White House whose primary tenant disparages the wearing of masks. If dictating an article of clothing to save lives is not a good enough excuse, then there is no good enough excuse so clothing should be optional as Trump puts it. I’m certainly not going to do that, but I would like people that object to wearing mask how they justify insisting that people wear clothes? In your mind is “decency” more important than life and death? No? then rethink your position.
Comparing wearing a mask to wearing clothing is educational for all of us. I know that the law has nothing to do with my wearing clothes. It’s not the reason most of us do, at least when it’s warm. It’s because we have internalized the societal norms. It doesn’t matter if they are rational, I don’t know good reasons to wear clothes in situations where I don’t need protection from the elements. But I still feel the need. We need to make wearing a mask a societal norm. I don’t criticize people that don’t wear masks, but I do often compliment masks that I like. Let people know that wearing a mask is cool. It makes other people like you more. We must fight the urge to enforce it as political correctness as that will backfire. People hate being scolded. Yes, I know I scold people all the time. Don’t scold me for it.
Wise Madness 