And its not completely a lie and it came from a rightfully panicked health care system. In this the lie was not unlike the explanation from parents who’s children walk in on them during an intimate moment to protect the children from the trauma.
Every health care professional upon realizing that they were about to be overwhelmed with a need for every imaginable tool in the kit to deal with hoards of sick and dying patients, at a time when there was no surplus of desperately needed supplies like ventilators and masks, began dismissing the utility of face masks. It was an understandable means of conserving what the hospitals needed far more badly than healthy people sequestered safely at home.
But it was not true…….like so much coming out of the mouth of the President of the United States along with his spreading of the contagion by incompetence, lies and his phony brand of salesmanship. So now we know that simple breathing and talking can spread the virus two or three feet. I was right to put on a mask at the Mount Royal Supermarket three days ago.
And now my better half is doing her part in the new American pastime. No more Disney Mickey Mouse bandannas for me. I would upload the lastest picture I took of her putting strips of cloth together on an ironing board but it looks like Flickr may have tricked me into updating to a flashy new system costing me 12 years worth of previously uploaded photos. I sent them a somewhat frosty email inquiry about this but for now I’m the one cooling my heels.
Ah, a temporary work around. Here’s that pic:
Speaking of dishonesty:
This is the departure of Captain Crozier from his aircraft carrier in Guam after he was relieved of command because the Joint Chiefs decided to prevent him from containing the contagion of corona virus sweeping across his prison..I mean…air craft carrier. You can see from the video how much his crew appreciated his deferring to their safety instead of the hush hush secrecy that would have kept them on board had their captain not sacrificed his career to keep them safe. Such is the way of our government in our Trump contaminated age. Go Pete Stauber!
