Masked

Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that Indiana and Ohio are mandatory mask states.

Ohio is too. If you’re in a public place, you’re supposed to wear a face covering.

My doctor’s office insists on actual masks. Face shields do not count. Those weird scarf thingies that go around your neck and can be pulled up over your face also are not accepted at the doctor’s office.

Labor Day weekend, we did our usual round of lunch, grocery shopping, etc.

While grocery shopping at The Walmarts I will say that more people than not were obeying the face mask ordinance.

But! There’s always a but. There were quite a few people who seemed to think that wearing a mask down around your chin is good enough. Or perhaps if they just wear it over their mouths but leave their noses free to breathe fresh air, that’s okay too, right?

No! Damn it, people, what the actual hell?

Just because the mask is ON your face and attached to your ears but hanging down around your chin, it doesn’t count unless it’s COVERING the places where the air actually leaves your actual body. It is the air that was inside your body that carries the germs that inhabit your body.

So pull the stupid mask up over your stupid face, up to and including your nose, and deal with it.

I know, I know, it’s so much easier to breathe when the mask isn’t covering your nose. Duh. It’s also easier to infect other people with your cooties if your mask is down around your chin.

No one enjoys wearing a mask but we’re wearing them (some of us correctly!) so that our kids can stay in school, so that we can continue to go to work, so that society as a whole doesn’t have to SHUT DOWN again because of the assholes out there who can’t be bothered to wear their masks properly.

But let’s also point out the true creeps who refuse to wear masks at all.

Okay, yes, there are people out there with medical reasons for not masking up. But I’m pretty damned sure that the two men that happened to be in the Edon Family Dollar last weekend who were NOT wearing masks of any kind (not even down around their stupid chins) were part of that small group of people with a medical reason for not wearing face coverings.

I think those two dudes were just assholes who were just WAITING for someone to call them on their selfishness.

They don’t care that there is a sign on the door that says anyone entering must wear a mask. They don’t care that the rest of us who ARE wearing masks are doing so FOR them. They’re just out there with their nose and mouth breath polluting our air.

Ugh!

Alyssa said that even though there are signs on the Arby’s where she works stating that masks are mandatory, so many people come in without them. And, she continued, you can tell by the look on these people’s faces that they are just hoping someone will say something about masks.

No one ever does because creeps like this are looking for a fight.

I am never looking for a fight, so I just mutter under my breath, shoot them dirty looks behind their backs and come here and bitch about them.

That’ll teach them.