Today is the big day, when
New York State opens up again … supposedly.
Those with coronavirus inoculations have been told that in most circumstances, they can do anything they want, including not wearing a mask indoors or outdoors.
However—and this is a point that the media really isn’t broadcasting out to the public very well, nor are the so-called experts and our elected politicians doing much talk about it either—that does not mean that those who have been inoculated have a carte blanche pass to completely ignore the rules.
If an establishment is still enforcing the mask edict, you have to wear a mask in their environs.
If you go into a supermarket, a bank, or any other venue, and they still have it clearly stated that a mask must be worn, you have to wear a mask.
As I said yesterday, several people have entered my wife’s bank without a mask, even though it clearly states on signs at the entrance that masks are required. She has had to give them masks, and if they refuse, they can’t be served.
My wife told me that so far, everyone she has given a mask to has done their duty, and not given her or anyone else in the bank any problems, but it is almost a certainty that that type of compliant behavior ends today.
There are people who are going to say that they have a right not to wear a mask since they were inoculated, but the fact of the matter is that if a venue insists that you must wear a mask, well, you must wear a mask.
And how many people who say they were inoculated actually were?
Who knows? I know the last thing my wife is going to do is to ask for papers.
Hopefully a year from now, we will look back at this entire thing as past folly, but right now, it is probably the hottest of the hot-button stories that we are facing in my neck of the woods.
When this latest CDC edict or whatever you want to call it came out, my first thought was, “What would happen if levels go way up again, and the CDC then reverses itself, saying that the masks have to go back on, whether you were inoculated or not?”
It’s not happening, folks.
Once the cat is out of the bag, a reversal is never going to happen, because few would listen.
And that leads us to New Jersey, where the governor has said that he is not following the CDC’s latest guidelines just yet.
Of course, the general populace is raking him over the coals, stating that if New York has lifted its restrictions, nobody is going to listen to him in Jersey, and people will start taking the masks off.
I saw one report where a man has a small chain of bicycle shops, one in New York State and one just over the border in Jersey.
He says that his customers often cross over from one store to the other, and with the inconsistency in mask wearing rules, he will lose business.
They even interviewed a customer, who lives in Brooklyn but works in New Jersey, and the guy said the inconsistency in mask wearing rules was making him uncomfortable in the store, because he had to really think what store he was in and whether to wear a mask or not to wear a mask.
Yes, I saw and heard this yesterday on television, grown people acting as if they needed a pacifier after they spoke to the reporter covering this story.
I don’t know what else to say about this, to be honest with you.
I personally hate to wear a mask. I am very uncomfortable with the mask on, I find that my allergies pick up if I wear the mask for an extended time, and now I have my out, because I did get the vaccine … which, of course, is anything but a vaccine.
Anyway, I think the only way to go about this—and the way that I will personally handle this—is that if the establishment still has a mask rule in force, I will comply and wear my mask while in that establishment.
If they don’t have a mask rule, then it comes off.
But I will still carry around the mask, because there are going to be great inconsistencies, from one venue to the next.
I haven’t eaten in a restaurant in more than a year. I haven’t gone to the movies in maybe nearly two years, which has as much to do with the pandemic as it has to do with the garbage showing in theaters.
I shop at just a few places, like a supermarket, and at times I will go to a department store.
Record Store Day is coming in a month, and I will frequent such a store now and again.
So I am not running around from venue to venue to still another venue, so it is not going to kill me if one venue says you still have to wear a mask, and another venue says you don’t.
Just roll with the flow.
That is how I have handled myself throughout this craziness we have been going through, and there is no reason to stop that way of doing things now.
And for those who want to continue to wear the mask regardless of the situation, that is fine with me.
Those with coronavirus inoculations have been told that in most circumstances, they can do anything they want, including not wearing a mask indoors or outdoors.
However—and this is a point that the media really isn’t broadcasting out to the public very well, nor are the so-called experts and our elected politicians doing much talk about it either—that does not mean that those who have been inoculated have a carte blanche pass to completely ignore the rules.
If an establishment is still enforcing the mask edict, you have to wear a mask in their environs.
If you go into a supermarket, a bank, or any other venue, and they still have it clearly stated that a mask must be worn, you have to wear a mask.
As I said yesterday, several people have entered my wife’s bank without a mask, even though it clearly states on signs at the entrance that masks are required. She has had to give them masks, and if they refuse, they can’t be served.
My wife told me that so far, everyone she has given a mask to has done their duty, and not given her or anyone else in the bank any problems, but it is almost a certainty that that type of compliant behavior ends today.
There are people who are going to say that they have a right not to wear a mask since they were inoculated, but the fact of the matter is that if a venue insists that you must wear a mask, well, you must wear a mask.
And how many people who say they were inoculated actually were?
Who knows? I know the last thing my wife is going to do is to ask for papers.
Hopefully a year from now, we will look back at this entire thing as past folly, but right now, it is probably the hottest of the hot-button stories that we are facing in my neck of the woods.
When this latest CDC edict or whatever you want to call it came out, my first thought was, “What would happen if levels go way up again, and the CDC then reverses itself, saying that the masks have to go back on, whether you were inoculated or not?”
It’s not happening, folks.
Once the cat is out of the bag, a reversal is never going to happen, because few would listen.
And that leads us to New Jersey, where the governor has said that he is not following the CDC’s latest guidelines just yet.
Of course, the general populace is raking him over the coals, stating that if New York has lifted its restrictions, nobody is going to listen to him in Jersey, and people will start taking the masks off.
I saw one report where a man has a small chain of bicycle shops, one in New York State and one just over the border in Jersey.
He says that his customers often cross over from one store to the other, and with the inconsistency in mask wearing rules, he will lose business.
They even interviewed a customer, who lives in Brooklyn but works in New Jersey, and the guy said the inconsistency in mask wearing rules was making him uncomfortable in the store, because he had to really think what store he was in and whether to wear a mask or not to wear a mask.
Yes, I saw and heard this yesterday on television, grown people acting as if they needed a pacifier after they spoke to the reporter covering this story.
I don’t know what else to say about this, to be honest with you.
I personally hate to wear a mask. I am very uncomfortable with the mask on, I find that my allergies pick up if I wear the mask for an extended time, and now I have my out, because I did get the vaccine … which, of course, is anything but a vaccine.
Anyway, I think the only way to go about this—and the way that I will personally handle this—is that if the establishment still has a mask rule in force, I will comply and wear my mask while in that establishment.
If they don’t have a mask rule, then it comes off.
But I will still carry around the mask, because there are going to be great inconsistencies, from one venue to the next.
I haven’t eaten in a restaurant in more than a year. I haven’t gone to the movies in maybe nearly two years, which has as much to do with the pandemic as it has to do with the garbage showing in theaters.
I shop at just a few places, like a supermarket, and at times I will go to a department store.
Record Store Day is coming in a month, and I will frequent such a store now and again.
So I am not running around from venue to venue to still another venue, so it is not going to kill me if one venue says you still have to wear a mask, and another venue says you don’t.
Just roll with the flow.
That is how I have handled myself throughout this craziness we have been going through, and there is no reason to stop that way of doing things now.
And for those who want to continue to wear the mask regardless of the situation, that is fine with me.
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