Reset Password
Reset Link Sent
| Blogs > HetFlexK > True Hetero-Flexible Tales |
|
something lost in translation? Let just get the stupidity out of the way; this post is going single out an ethnic group. If you just can’t handle that and think you’re head will explode, don’t read any further. While standing in line at the post office, I watched a hispanic family in front of in mute wonder. Everyone in the building was wearing their masks, so it seems all present were at least aware of the pandemic, and some of the basic rules revolving around avoiding it. It’s hard believe there would be a single person in this, or any other country, that would be wearing a mask right now simply comply with the rules, but have no idea why they were doing it. No matter your country of origin or potential language barriers, everyone is pretty much up speed on Covid-19. So while I see people wearing masks mill around and touch just about everything within reach it makes wonder if some parts of what is going on might not have been lost in translation? Is it willful ignorance? Do they just not care? If it had just been , I might not have given it a second thought but as I watched, and adults alike did the same things. They moved about, alternating between giving people the necessary social distancing space and crowding them like those post-Covid days of yore. Hands that I highly doubt were clean grabbed at, and touched, just about every surface, every object within reach. The pens that were available for customer use? Every single one was toyed with in some fashion. All the surfaces where a person might lay a package down, or perhaps fill out a form, were touched excessively. One guy stood, palms down (you know, the part of the hands that sweat) and seemed to be focused on lightly slapping every inch of one of the countertops. The greeting cards, the shipping boxes and envelopes - hands were all over all of them. It was kind of a<b> bizarre </font></b>sight under any circumstances, but disheartening in these current ones. Maybe nobody has any diseases whatsoever, and all the touching was just harmlessly spreading your normal, everyday germs all over everything. I didn’t have to touch anything, so I wasn’t alarmed, just disgusted a bit. This is where it gets a bit iffy on the am I a racist asshole or not question, so read at your own ris Last year, around this time, it was largely the hispanic community in my town that ignored all the warnings, the platitudes, the flat out demands to take precautions. While I saw everyone else in the city complying, albeit begrudgingly, I could still walk around and find plenty of hispanics who were having none of it. No masks, no social distancing, no caution or precautions whatsoever. At the time it didn’t just alarm me, it also made me angry, but after a year of something simple like mask wearing being politicized to death I no longer care what others are doing as long as it isn’t directly affecting me. This time last year, I might have approached someone in a store and confronted them about the fact that they weren’t wearing a mask but now, if I see it, I just ignore it unless the maskless person gets in my personal space. In my opinion, mask wearing is important, but what is of equal if not greater importance is the whole hand washing thing, and I think studies show just how poorly we, as a society, do in that category. Interestingly, it is older caucasian men that lead the pack of the unwashed, though I am thrilled to not be counted among them. I’ve always been a clean person, and didn’t need a pandemic to change my habits. For some people, cleanliness has never been very important, and I can understand how tough creating the new habit might have seemed, but it’s a good one to have. Just like the old edict of keeping your hands to yourself, which I guess some folks weren’t taught either, or if they were it didn’t stic The desire touch everything is a foreign one to . It’s something you have as a , but are supposed grow out of as your other senses become more acute. Being tactile is one thing (I am that when it comes people) but during a time when diseases can be spread that might harm others it seems smart just shove your hands in your pants if you feel you can’t keep them from roaming over every surface. |
 |
 |
 |
| Become a member to comment on this blog | ||
 |
×
×