I came within a breath of congratulating the mother on instilling fear of an invisible monster in her children. Instead I moved on. I am furious. I am sad. I am in disbelief. To all you parents teaching your kids to "go along to get along", fuck you all. You are doing damage that will never be undone not just to your kids, but to the rest of us who will have to deal with their behavioral problems and trust issues for years to come. You deserve a millstone around your necks. God dammit- teach them to question authority! Even yours.
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I was walking my dog yesterday. We are under a new lockdown and increased restrictions here in WA.
I don’t wear one when I’m walking, just me and my dog. I always cross the street or move to give 6 ft (which is what the actual “rule” is from our governor... no mask required outside if you have 6’ social distance).
It’s crazy to me... I’d say probably 90% of people I see are wearing masks when they’re out walking alone. People walking or riding bikes with their kids all “masked up”. I crossed paths with a woman and her son (both wearing masks)... due to where we were I couldn’t just cross the street, so I moved to one far edge of the sidewalk... I can’t quite describe how she reacted... she went to the other far side of the sidewalk, they kept moving but she sort of turned her back to me, lowered her head, shielded her son from me with her body. I felt it so viscerally... her fear, like I was a dangerous threat to her and her son, just because I was outside without a mask. I really do worry where our society is going to end up after all this. People really have lost all sense of reality.
I have a small glimmer of hope when I come across someone else without a mask. We give each other the social distance, I hate how that’s become so normal to me, but us unmasked always seem to give each other a smile, like we are the few in this area still able to communicate friendliness to a stranger.