Since the beginning of the Sars-Covid2 pandemic it’s been wear your mask, social distance, don’t kill grandma and trust the science. My wife and I would have been some of the frontline workers who stood in the face of the pandemic to serve the public, we are bread vendors. March 11th 2020 was the beginning of the pandemic for us. Eleven days in a row we would walk into our supermarkets and mom and pop shops to no bread on the shelf. No wonder, the media was death by virus, death by virus and finally death by virus for months.
So weeks before the mask mandate happened, here we were the frontline workers, exposed to the deadly Sars-Covid2 virus. The panicked public and our fellow bread vendors all close together in one aisle, supposedly the ideal situation for an outbreak of the virus. Corporate America stepped up to combat the virus. Close early to clean and sanitize shelves and areas of the stores, follow up on the mask mandate by making their own mask mask mandates for employees and the public alike. The experts constantly changed the facts to fit constantly changing narrative.
Here is my take. We are a year and a month into this pandemic and the media, corporate America, the experts as well as the mask police are living a dream. If you live in the real world you will come to find out that all the posturing for the virus by these entities has been a complete and utter failure. The general public does not follow your draconian measures. The two week lockdown period to stave off overrun hospitals, never came to pass. One of my fellow bread vendors delivers to a few of the local hospitals, during that period, paramedics and those first responders were sitting around on their phones, not running all over the city to pick up the sick or dead. The hospital was cutting hours of the staff as well.
Corporate America, I hope you don’t think your staffs are following your mask and cleaning edicts, well they aren’t, we have a show folks. If you are in any of these stores before they open, like we are, from store management down to the stock boy, 95% of the employees are not wearing masks! One chain store even goes so far as to have a countdown to have the mask ready before the 6 am opening! We see no cleaning going on anywhere, we see business pre-pandemic!
To the mask police do you recognize what is going on around you? You have shopping options available to you, if you feel uncomfortable out in public. If you walk around making a list and checking it twice before handing over to management as to who has a mask and who doesn’t have a mask, guess what? Management doesn’t care, they still have Corporate America to answer to aka, sales and profits, not your little tattle tale list. They might appease your instant gratification by asking said offender to put on a mask or pull up their mask but as soon as you walk away, mask down or mask off! Happy now?
To the so called experts, you have been so wrong, all along. We have been shoulder to shoulder, nose to nose with other vendors and the public since the beginning of this pandemic. All of us should have been infected with Sars-Covid2 multiple times based on your principles of how this virus works. Guess what, I had the virus in December 2019 before it was a thing in the United States. Guess what nobody else I work with contracted the virus including my wife whom I spend 24/7 with. Go ahead and spout your knowledge and you list of accomplishments, the real world is continuing on, the Earth is spinning, the Sun rises, it sets. This set of issues like some of the ice ages will flesh itself out in time.