Getting Tired

It has been 3 months and things seem to worse than the summer spikes.  It is hard to tell whether we are in a succession of spikes or not even through the first one.  The last 3 days October 22 -24 have seen daily new cases of 69302, 77057 and 78888 respectively.  All 3, highest days posted ( MSN.com site).  There seems to be little end in sight of this virus and its affect on our lives.  It is pretty safe to say that people are getting tired of it.

What we are tired of is an interesting question.  Me personally, I am getting tired of 2 things.  One, tired of waiting for it to be over.  So much of this seems to be a waiting game.  There is not much I can do to move it along.  I lost my password to one of my 401k accounts.  I could do something about that.  I go to the site and ask for a password reset.  I get a text to my phone, enter the code,  and reset my password.  With this virus I am not a virus maker, doctor or any health professional of any kind.  So I cannot actively move this process along.  So I wait.

Secondly I am tired of the carelessness I see people displaying.  My wife and I ordered a pizza for pick up.  We sat in our vehicle outside the pizzeria ( pizza was late).  There was an outdoor eating area.  I saw a couple put there masks on and get up from their table.  They walked about 20 feet and passed by 2 tables with people dining.  The dining area was separated from the sidewalk by a 4 foot high rod iron fence.  The tables that the masked couple passed were against the fence.  The masked couple passed the other diners and exited the gate that led them out to the public side walk.  After exiting the couple did a hair pin turn and walked on the public side walk past the same diners they had just passed.  However as they exited the patio they immediately removed their masks!

This meant that they walked right by the same people they had just passed.  They went by once masked and once unmasked.  I guess it is better than unmasked twice but not much better.  What I wonder is why did they mask in the first place?  If you were going to walk by someone without a mask why put a mask on to do it 10 seconds earlier?  The only reason I can come up with is that the restaurant mandates it.  So these people put their masks on so they could eat at a restaurant.  As we waited for our pizza we saw similar behavior.  We saw a number of people walk up to the restaurant with out masks.  They got shown to their seats and immediately removed the mask.  They had their masks on for all of about 20-30 seconds.  We also see the famous beard bib, where the mask is worn under the chin.

If you are not going to take this seriously why bring the mask at all.  As much as I disagree with people who disregard masks and their benefit I at least know what to expect from them.  Being careless is probably in the end more dangerous.