I live in FL and I see a lot of elderly wearing them. My vet is right next to a Lab Corp lab and I’ve sat and watched people walking in, mostly elderly but many obese or sickly looking and almost all wearing masks. It is hard not to intervene and say something but I think it’s too late. By now.. you’d think they would have read something or been told how damaging masks are. You’d think their doctors would say, “sir/ma’m!!! Lose the mask! You can’t breathe!!” I can only deduce the medical pros are actively trying to reduce their life expectancy.
You know what the number one thing is that humans fear most? Suffocation. Slow suffocation perpetuates the fear cycle. Fear the virus. Fear others, fear freaking everything and do what you’re told!!
Also, moronic behavior— I was in Publix recently and a very overweight older woman had what looked like a knitted mask over her mouth. She was talking to someone on her phone and had the mask all scrunched up over her mouth. I had to wait for her to finish her effing business in front of the cheese I wanted to get. I guess survival of the fittest comes to mind in those cases.
If it helps, tell the mask wearers they are killing turtles. I was at a turtle hospital recently, and the workers said the mask was the number one pollutant in the ocean that is affecting turtles. Turtles mistakenly think the masks floating in the water are jellyfish. The turtles eat the masks, can’t digest them, and the turtles die.
When I tried telling this to some mask wearers, all I got was silence from them…..hopefully, it gave them something to think about and maybe change their mindset in the future.
I live in FL and I see a lot of elderly wearing them. My vet is right next to a Lab Corp lab and I’ve sat and watched people walking in, mostly elderly but many obese or sickly looking and almost all wearing masks. It is hard not to intervene and say something but I think it’s too late. By now.. you’d think they would have read something or been told how damaging masks are. You’d think their doctors would say, “sir/ma’m!!! Lose the mask! You can’t breathe!!” I can only deduce the medical pros are actively trying to reduce their life expectancy.
You know what the number one thing is that humans fear most? Suffocation. Slow suffocation perpetuates the fear cycle. Fear the virus. Fear others, fear freaking everything and do what you’re told!!
Also, moronic behavior— I was in Publix recently and a very overweight older woman had what looked like a knitted mask over her mouth. She was talking to someone on her phone and had the mask all scrunched up over her mouth. I had to wait for her to finish her effing business in front of the cheese I wanted to get. I guess survival of the fittest comes to mind in those cases.
If it helps, tell the mask wearers they are killing turtles. I was at a turtle hospital recently, and the workers said the mask was the number one pollutant in the ocean that is affecting turtles. Turtles mistakenly think the masks floating in the water are jellyfish. The turtles eat the masks, can’t digest them, and the turtles die.
When I tried telling this to some mask wearers, all I got was silence from them…..hopefully, it gave them something to think about and maybe change their mindset in the future.
That makes my heart hurt. I’ll remember this. It isn’t the straws that need boycotting.
Thank you so much for telling me and I will tell them the same.