Periodic reminder that we are not anything like "post"-pandemic. We are mid-pandemic; Peri-pandemic; Right smack dab in the fucking middle of a goddam pandemic and no amount of squeezing our eyes shut and plugging our ears and going "la la la it's not real" while wishing it were otherwise will make it so.
@Wolven We still regularly wear masks in the office at @letterformarchive and when we share video on social there is always someone asking why I’m wearing a mask rather than talking about the book we’re showing. Latest one even complained that showing ourselves in masks was “giving her stress” and we should move past it now!
@Wolven Grateful for our followers who talk some sense in comments so we don’t always have to.

@stewf @Wolven

I find masks stressful too, but I still wear them, to protect others. And I'll keep wearing masks as long as health experts recommend them.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/i-mask-when-asked-7b71101a9834

(ETA: I've upgraded to wearing KF94 masks since writing this blog entry in December.)

I Mask When Asked - Pax Ahimsa Gethen - Medium

It has now been three full years since the COVID-19 virus was first identified in Wuhan, China. When the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic in March 2020, my city, San Francisco…

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