Mask wearing is now de rigueur if you want to be inside a place with other people besides your own home or private office (I now wear a mask inside the building where I work).
Luckily, neighbors down my street have been making and donating cloth masks, by leaving them on a table on their front porch. I always make sure to leave some money, because these people are not only thoughtful and community minded, but also because they probably could use some handy cash.
Meanwhile, people want things to go back to normal, not accepting the fact that we need to build a new kind of "normal" that must take into consideration mistakes that we made that led to where we are now. And there are many mistakes. I don't mean for this blog to become some kind of moralizing pulpit, but we have all been given gobs of time to think. So let's think, let's think hard, and when we step outside, let's accept that we are not stepping back in time, but forward, to what, I don't know.
Time to take a walk with a friend, mask at the ready.
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