Masking Like a Movie Star

Lots of people are still wearing masks. It can feel a bit like we're the only ones at the store, getting pointed at or coughed on despite intentionally and conscientiously reducing the spread of a brain-invasive disease. 

But entire industries, like film sets, are maintaining masking to protect their employees (i.e. movie stars). The boss perceives them as irreplaceable. (What does that say about the rest of us??) And many famous people are masking in public. 

Wil Wheaton

Keanu Reeves

Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner

Sir Paul McCartney

Stevie Nicks at a Taylor Swift concert

Violet Affleck carrying Thrasher's The Viral Underclass

Morgan Fairchild (whom I've seen masked)

Yet many people in health care won't wear a mask. 

People are still getting very sick or dying from Covid. It's still the third leading cause of death. Imagine going back to a time when doctors smoked as they examined patients! We're going way further back insisting viruses don't travel more than six feet, and we needn't worry about people who don't have symptoms.  

Journalist Heather Mallick recently reported her experience with Long Covid:

"Every long-hauler is different, their body attacked by the virus ferom different angles and to various degrees. It's a game of Snakes and Ladders. We get better, we worsen. It's wrong to say we get 'tired' and 'sleep'. We crash adn disappear. . . . At one point, I woke up unable to move and harangued my own legs. 'C'mon, we can do this, bend, slide off the couch, do it for me, your head offic,' but had to wait for my husband to come home and rearrange me. Long Covid is melodramatic, a moody creature difficult to placate."

It's so frustrating that we did this to ourselves. It didn't have to get this bad. 

We STILL have all the tools and then some! We can prevent more people from getting sick if we want to. It's a choice.