The Walking Dead
An Example Of Someone Never Coming Back
This guy has been walking around my neighborhood since March 2020 with his N95 mask on. Outside. Alone. Young, in his 30s.
This is the fruit of major psychological damage that’s been inflicted on us over the past several years. On the the one hand, I’m sad for this guy. On the other, I can’t help but laugh at him.
How does this person come back? Were they ever here at all in the first place? Would any conversation I would have with this person have any affect on him to try to calm his fear?
I had an experience with a grown man very much like this one in the picture, alone walking his dog all the time. He had spoken at me unsolicited for not wearing a mask inside my building. A few days later I confronted him as politely as possible, and told him that walking alone and outside with a mask makes no rational sense, and that he was suffering from a mental illness. It seemed that I actually got through to him because the next time he saw me outside he sheepishly pulled the mask off his face. So interventions are possible.
Every time I saw / see someone outside or in their car w/ a mask on, I have muttered to myself “f’ing moron!” Practically the only words out of my mouth for 2+ years, there are so many of them 😂