The virus news is more and more focused on the Delta Variant. And, here's a piece of absolutely expected news, if you are vaccinated, you are still at a risk and WHO says that you should wear a mask, and socially distance.
Of course, here in California, unlike other states, we are just getting back to a vague normal. I actually went out to dinner with friends like a human being. Oh, yes, some mothers were still putting masks on their two year olds who will live for the rest of their lives with some form of hypochondria, but most of the people were doing something that hasn't been done for 15 plus months---living.
I know. I know. Lots of you are nodding your heads in disapproval. She (that's me) doesn't get it. We have to protect ourselves. This new variant could kill people. In fact, the way "they" are telling it--you know the people out there, those faceless ones who therefore don't even need a mask--this new variant is even more dangerous than the last one.
And at the same moment "they" are telling people to get vaccinated, who don't want to, they are telling us that being vaccinated effectively changes nothing. It tells those of us who dutifully did get vaccinations, additionally, that we were stupid to listen in the first place. Vaccinated or unvaccinated, indoors or outdoors, with people or not with them, you are in the profoundest danger.
I have a personal opinion about the craziness occuring on airplanes, where passengers try to open the door or become violent towards the attendants. People have just spent months completely restricted. And then they go into a space in a tin can, thrity thousand feet up, with limited leg room, no real food, and must wear a mask between bites of that no real food. They go from restriction to MORE restriction. I find flying horrible enough---and have managed to do it from time to time. But not now. I can tell you that before the spate of people trying to open the hatch doors I worried about people doing just that thing. That used to be my OCD idee fixed talking. Now it is valid concern. It is unlikely I will be flying any time soon. I had hoped that things might settle down by next year because my high school reunion is then, but between masks and passenger breakdowns, I may never fly again. I admire those who still manage it.
Let me just say it straight out. The first spate of masking and limitations damaged a lot of people's psyches. But do it again, and you might as well call it soul murder. Is physical survival more important than the mind and the heart and the soul?
You cannot flatten the curve of mortality. Besides that, I no longer believe, if ever I did, that this whole production was ever about saving lives. Oh, sure, there were people in the wheel of politics and mind control who really were trying to save lives. And I repeat, there was a virus. There are a bunch of viruses. There will always be, as long as humans live, viruses and things that can and will kill us. A friend of mine just died. She got sick. It wasn't the virus. She had a whole year of restriction, limitation and isolation, and just as it was lifting, she died.
Finally, here is my "conspiracy theory", at least as it involves the United States, and maybe the rest of the world. There has been pushback of late against the contradictory, anti-reality, totalitarian press of Progressivism, and it is starting to meet with some success. It is time to rein it in. What better way than to be sure the people of the World be isolated again, perhaps permanently by telling them they will die if they go out or don't become anonymous mask wearers for the rest of their lives. After all, there's always another virus variant, right?
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