Today's Keyboard Smash
Mar. 10th, 2022 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksThey lifted the mask requirement at work today. It happened midday, and the first I knew about it was because one of my coworkers was doing a weird dance next to their workstation, twirling their mask overhead. As they've been having a bad week and a bad morning in particular, I was legit concerned they had just had some kind of breakdown and we were about to have An Incident on the production floor.
But no. Just the first of many people who reacted like it was fucking V.E. Day all over again. Absurd.
I'm personally...hesitant to join in this collective thumbing of our noses at covid--I'm not convinced we're not going to bumble our way straight into another surge. But fine, I accept that this is the current consensus.
That level of elation over getting rid of the masks? I find it baffling. Off-putting, even, but mostly just utterly alien. I truly cannot relate at all to that level of hate for them.
But then, I'm quite happy to have half my face covered so I don't have to worry about making appropriately human facial expressions in front of others. Also, I've gone without getting a seasonal cold for two years now, and that is a minor miracle. So until they stop providing the masks to wear in production, until they tell me I am expressly forbidden from wearing them, yeah, hi, I will still be wearing a mask at work.
But no. Just the first of many people who reacted like it was fucking V.E. Day all over again. Absurd.
I'm personally...hesitant to join in this collective thumbing of our noses at covid--I'm not convinced we're not going to bumble our way straight into another surge. But fine, I accept that this is the current consensus.
That level of elation over getting rid of the masks? I find it baffling. Off-putting, even, but mostly just utterly alien. I truly cannot relate at all to that level of hate for them.
But then, I'm quite happy to have half my face covered so I don't have to worry about making appropriately human facial expressions in front of others. Also, I've gone without getting a seasonal cold for two years now, and that is a minor miracle. So until they stop providing the masks to wear in production, until they tell me I am expressly forbidden from wearing them, yeah, hi, I will still be wearing a mask at work.
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Date: 2022-03-11 04:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-13 03:44 pm (UTC)Considering how often we still have employees needing to quarantine after exposure, I'm honestly pretty surprised they opted to lift the requirement. I'm going to laugh in their (unmasked) faces if this ends up causing an internal surge and we get even more behind schedule than we already are. I mean, laugh and also cry, but hey.