Good day Beloved, at least I hope your day will be, is, or was good. People are wearing thin from this COVID crap. I read a couple opinions recently. One proclaiming that they HAVE THE RIGHT to go to the store and restaurants, they HAVE THE RIGHT to not wear a mask. How selfish those people are who shelter in place and ORDER IN. How selfish to expect others to do the work so they don’t have to. The other proclaiming pretty much the opposite. That those who REFUSE to wear a mask are the SELFISH ONES.
You know, I don’t get any jollies from wearing a mask eight plus hours a day. (I am an “essential worker”) I do it because the science says that it can help to protect others who are vulnerable. All this bullshit isn’t about ME and what makes ME comfortable. All this bullshit is about possibly saving someone else from having to mourn and grieve because a loved one died from something that could have been prevented by wearing a mask. I truly hope you never experience the grief of the person you are closest to in this world dying. THINK about loosing your mother, father, grandparent, wife, husband, child, sibling, or even your pet. BECAUSE you thought yourself ABOVE wearing a mask. Who will you blame then? The doctors and nurses who are bustin their asses to save people? The jerk in the grocery store line that didn’t wear their mask properly? Would you feel guilty because you made the choice to behave poorly and refuse to wear a mask?
HEAR ME NOW… I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT ANSWER IS….AND NIETHER DO YOU. Only God knows the full truth and the myriad of sides of the story. I pray and hope that the right people listen when HE speaks. I make the choice everyday when I haul my ass off to work to follow the rules to the best of my abilities. I choose to believe that because I do that, someone else will not get sick and that I will not get sick. All I ask is that if you choose to behave poorly and NOT WEAR a mask because it infringes on YOUR RIGHTS… PLEASE STAY FAR AWAY FROM ME AND MINE.
YOU can risk your life and lives of those you love. DO NOT presume you can make that choice for me. If you come through my line at the store, YOU DAMN WELL better have a mask on and have it OVER YOUR NOSE. You DON NOT have the right to endanger me and mine. I would like look back some day and be able to say “well, I guess we didn’t need the masks as much as we thought” rather than looking back some day and saying ” I wish the rules would have been stronger so fewer people would have died needlessly”.
Bottom line for you beloved. THINK. Think about everyone beyond your personal space and make choices that will reflect the greatest good for the greatest number. Wear a mask and stay home if don’t truly NEED to go out. We all have to do things we don’t like sometimes. That is just the way it is when we are in community. Do I blindly think the rules are right? OF COURSE NOT. At the same time I am not arrogant enough to think I know better.
Respect yourself. Respect others around you. Respect those you never even see but might affect because you coughed on their care provider in line at the grocery store. Just think about others and worry less about whether or not your rights are getting pushed a bit.
Beloved, do what you are led to do but DO NOT ASSUME that your choice for you is the right choice for those you come into close proximity with outside your home.
Have a lovely…
Mona LangmaackMelin
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