I took my son out yesterday. We were going to spend some father-son time together and I forgot to bring a mask for him, as per the Governor’s orders.
I said that was alright, there was a Publix near where we were going and we could just dip in there for a minute and buy a package of disposable masks, it will be fine.
He started to fret that he can’t go into Publix without a mask and we needed to go home (all the way across town) to get a mask.
He is six-years-old.
This mask bullshit, which they enforced at summer camp and are enforcing at school, has created a neurosis in him.
He worries about social distancing. A gregarious child who now reminds strangers to stay back because there is a virus.
Little kids clearly do not have the capacity to understand what is going on and instead are developing emotional problems.
Among children my son’s age and with no history of respiratory problems, the COVID mortality rate is virtually zero, so the powers that be have decided to replace with a guaranteed anxiety disorder.
This is an unforgivable crime committed against our children.
This angers me as well. They are making this the new normal, frightening adults as well. This is unforgivable.
I am truly sorry to hear that and hope you can be a grounding influence to the madness he hears outside the home.
It baffles me how a bunch of people who tell kids to not be afraid of angering people by ‘speaking truth to power’ will book absolutely ZERO dissidence and will berate, shame, and slander a child for not wearing a mask.
My lady drank the Cool-Aid regarding Covid-19. From the moment it hit the news she has been in 100% “It’s going to kill us all!” with the “Dad(me) is fat, that means he’s at risk!” She had a reason for all of us to be “at risk”.
When it came out that it wasn’t nearly as deadly as first thought, the trope became “Well, we don’t know what this virus does! There are some reports and studies that there is long term damage to (fill in the blank)”
So we Mask when we go out and we social distance from strangers. My daughter will make snide comments to her mother when she sees somebody in the store not wearing a mask. I’ve had to take her to task for that multiple times.
The fear is infectious. My lady’s fear of the Covid-19 infects everything we do. But here is the thing that tells me it is mostly theater at this point, whenever my lady wants to have a gathering, it happens. Oh it is outside, all the people there are super duper careful, all the people that come wear masks all the time when interacting with others.
And then I hear how they didn’t need to mask because. Or they had a wonderful lunch but it was ok.
Masks are absolutely required for me to enter the hardware store, but when it comes to her circle of friends, there is always an exception.
I came to the decision shortly after this thing hit the news that we were all going to get it. It is just a question of when. Maybe we’ll get a minor version via a vaccine. Maybe we’ll get a mild case. Maybe it will be a big case. I will delay that by taking reasonable precautions, but I’m not going to live in fear. I will not make my children live in fear.
P.S. Kids are home schooled and have been for the last 2 years, this is their 3rd doing home school and remote learning.
The damage caused by government overreach prompted by scary headlines is going to cause much more damage than the virus itself.
How many addicts in recovery are relapsing? How many suicides are taking action, instead of seeking help? How many kids are thinking that masks are cool, and they will want to keep wearing them after this is all over?
What we have done to ourselves is unforgibable.