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My guess is that, as a woman, you look less threatening, and people feel freer to criticise. I'm sorry it works like that. 😟
I blame people for their attitude, but not for their ignorance. The policy from Government now is to vax and relax, without even (for most people) the vax. #LongCovid, they say, isn't real, and Covid belongs to the distant past, a different news cycle, if it ever happened at all. Weekly death figures are hard to find and never publicised, and no one even counts the millions with long-term disabilities caused by Covid. Add to that the massive power of wishful thinking on the part of people who want to get reelected, or who want their businesses to thrive, or who just want to go to the pub on a Friday night and have a few drinks with friends. Even healthcare workers have given up masking, though some still will on request. So, when an ordinary man, a decent man, a carpet fitter, questions my respirator, it's hardly a surprise. He's only assimilated what everyone else has told him.
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But I met a prize buffoon in a charity shop this afternoon.
I heard him say to his wife, "He probably has bad breath."
I wheeled round, tapped my respirator and said "Covid."
"Have you got Covid?" he asked.
"No, and I want to keep it that way."
"She's got Covid — my wife. She's got it now."
"Please go home."
"I'm not worried," he said. "I've had the jab."
"So have I, but — defence in depth."
"Blame Boris. Blame China." And it became less coherent from that point onwards. Something about Hyde Park and "Can't say anything these days."
I'm just glad I was wearing a respirator. No one else in the shop wore one. They're all at risk.
The wife never said a word. I'm guessing she didn't dare. The husband didn't seem like the type to change his mind after a reasoned argument.
Can you imagine bringing your infected partner out in public, putting everyone at risk, and then laughing at the one person who took infection-control measures? The Covidiots have taken over. We've lost.