Thursday, August 20, 2020

Mask Misery and Mischief

* Yesterday I stopped for gas. The guy at the pump in front of me was maskless. No problem, as he wasn't within six feet of me or anyone else. But still, he lingered, cleaning his windshield and his side mirrors and preventing me from leaving after I had filled my tank. Finally he got back in his car -- there were no passengers -- and put on a face mask and drove off. What's the story with those lone masked drivers?

* According to several news sources, a woman traveling back to Boston from Orlando with her six children in tow was kicked off an airplane because her 2-year-old would not wear a face mask. "He's got to have his mouth and nose covered," the flight attendant insisted. Easier said than done, as any parent of a 2-year-old knows.

                                                                                                                            Wall Street Journal photograph
* Meanwhile, some adults in Florida remain confused on the subject. The two women shown above -- one a teacher and the other a parent -- photographed at a Tampa elementary school apparently weren't clued in to the whole covered-nose thing. Could this be why African Americans are contracting the coronavirus at higher rates?


1 comment:

  1. Oh, but its anybody but the actual person's fault about all of this, it seems.

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