We are living in a new normal now. We work from home, we love video calls, we don't shake hands, we refrain from meeting other people as much as possible. All in the hopes of slowing down the spread of the coronavirus. Plenty of rules and regulations have changed which affected all of our daily lives. Yet it seems that for some people, this is not an issue, and that they still want to live in the old normal, so to speak.
Every now and then, I see news articles for example of people who are challenging the implemention of various emergency measures. People who go to the courts to argue for their right to protest, their right to assembly, their right to practice their religion. Restaurants who argue that they have the right to keep open. And sometimes, even parents who argue that they have the right to let their children go on a parade through the streets during Saint Martin's Day. All because they want a little piece of normality.
Well have you not received the memo? We are not living in normal times! And in these non-normal times, sometimes public health is a more important issue than your child's lantern parade. If you want to insist that your child and their friends should go around the neighbourhood carrying their lanterns while compromising the health and safety of themselves and others, then I think you're a selfish individual.
Yes, I am trying to chug along, so to speak. I minimise my movements, and reduce the times I go out to a bare minimum. I haven't met a friend in person in ages. And yet when I am outside and I see these people acting like they have no care whatsoever for the people around them, I don't know what to think. I wish I had a mask gun, so that I could just shoot some uncovered face and splatter them with a mask.
