Missed a post last Friday due to traveling to Seattle for a quick visit. It has proven impossible to resist mentioning mask wearing in DIA.
My roughest estimate is that about 10 percent of white males were not wearing masks correctly and a small percentage of white females were equally unwilling to cover both mouth and nose.
I did not see one person of color flouting the rules. Yes, it was a small sample but the behavior made me think, not for the first time: what the heck is wrong with white males?
There is a good argument against my conclusion that places more blame on white men for several problems. Small sample size. Just one location. Is 10 percent noncompliance all that bad?
In SEATAC. there were zero “rule flouters.” Different culture? Different politics? Different experiences?
I started feeling something like road rage as I passed the arrogant refuseniks in the airport. But I did not confront any of them. I held my tongue.
And thought of how one-sided behavior is becoming in America with progressives holding back and radical retrograde a never even considering just moving on, not making a comment, etc.
Why must I be the adult? Why must I pretend to sympathize with vaccine deniers dying in overcrowded hospitals?
Oops. The truth just slipped out. But “pretending” is one of the best tools for people to use to keep society civil.
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