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grocery shopping, this lady came up to me and said, “I think you should be wearing a mask.” I told her “I’m not worried about getting some virus.” She said, “I’m not talking about the virus. I just think you should be wearing a mask.” I really hope wearing a mask doesn’t become part of our everyday life. I don’t think I can handle that. It’s hard to tell if someone’s crying or laughing at one of your jokes. It seems like we’re living in the last days and there’s two kinds of humans left, the masked ones and the unmasked. Soon they will turn on each other.
I don’t know what the world will look like after all this Coronavirus crap is over. What a pain-in-ass this thing has been, upending our lives. We will certainly lose some of our dwindling freedoms. Will social distancing become the new way? Having to wear a mask every- where we go? No more hugging and shaking hands? Half full flights and movie theatres? The only good thing is, hopefully, people have learned to wash their hands more. You can never go wrong with hand wash- ing. It’s a good thing. One other good thing that will come out of this rogue virus is, we’re going to make the
history books, gang. Futuristic people will talk about the great plague of 2020. Grand kids will sit on our laps and ask, “Was it hard during the great plague, grandpa?” We’ll say it was brutal. We didn’t have to get up early, sit in traffic, work at a job we can’t stand. Our days were consumed of watching Netflix, having our groceries and meals delivered to our front door and, God help us, we had to wash our hands more often.
by Jeff Charlebois
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