Its Saturday night. On Friday, my loved one just returned from a local doctor routine yearly exam/ checkup.
Everything looks good! My loved one and I masked up as usual for this event.
We've been masking publicly since 2020, My loved one is 77 soon to be 78 years old and hasn't had a single airborne illness since 2020.
Nothing spells
airborne illness/disease exposure like a visit to the doctor's office and waiting room. Its nasty and stupid. I hear somebody painfully coughing their head off in the waiting room..except for us, everybody is completely maskless in waiting room and receptionists who share writing utensils with undiagnosed patients are exposing themselves. Fortunately our doctor masked for us and I told a nurse or two we preferred them to mask and they did...
...anyway we all know the hypocrisy of maskless healthcare world that takes an oath to protect one another from illnesses.. contagious airborne illnesses... we all know the countless stories about people getting sick from where sick people gather to get diagnosed and treated for various illnesses. The chances of getting exposed to someone with an airborne illness is more than likely in a doctor's office or hospital than most anywhere.
Simply wondering if the very chair you or your loved ones are sitting is was inhabited by a very ill person is terrorizing enough much less listening to their coughing in the waiting room or having to walk through a narrow so-called healthcare hallway with gauntlet of maskless people such as a big bearded delivery guy at the reception window or to feel the draft of those walk by who have worked hands on with sick people is terrifying to us masked patients seeking a mere doctor checkup. To walk past her old maskless disheveled doctor that had a awkward smile on his ghost -like face in the hallway while in our masks was bizarre and risky. It's no wonder we used a newer doctor that showed more willingness to mask. We masked were smarter and safer than them all. It was even weird to see the nurse who just cared for us maskless amongst the maskless in the receptionists area. Very precarious indeed. The maskless are like ghosts..it just feels like the maskless people's days are numbered and eventually, sooner or later, the contagions will whittle them down like long covid has done to this society.
Its not the same as it was when I was growing up as a child nothing rivals the challenges we face today in the present...my habitat my environment is not the same as it was in days of old..new microscopic entities are at play.. Covid and long covid is not finished and has many more victims. Variants still forming still mutating ..covid and its outbreaks simply havent ceased and many airborne illnesses that were almost eradicated have reestablished themselves to our dismay amongst are high speed globe trotting peers and amidst climate change. Even nonhuman animals are affected with these afflictions.. Given these facts and figures I embrace and chose the mask to protect me as it definitely is a smart day and age not to take chances and definitely smart to mask and chose not to breathe in microscopic entities in this day and age.
I would have expected more for me the Masked Man and a masked 77 year old woman for a mere doctor checkup. I made sure all those who breathed or touched us masked for us but this is shocking the I should have to be their instructor considering the facts and figures available to us all about airborne illnesses including the insidious nature of covid and the reign of long covid.
Anyway my heart goes out to the masked people and masked ones who are my heroes that have to work or live with people that go maskless in pubic and it's like torture to have to be around anyone who needlessly exposes themselves to viruses given the fact that many virus's carry long term health repercussions that diminish the quality of life for themselves and others later on down the road.
I will celebrate in advance with a little electric guitar music that my loved one and I were masked for the doctor's visit and we
probably didn't get any germs or contract a virus despite obviously a person was having respiratory symptoms in the waiting room and obviously people with covid and other illnesses are asymptomatic for awhile. I am only assuming we are both safe because we were masked (washed clothes , took off our masks and showered when we got home and had made the doctors and nurses mask before working with us directly). We
likely prevented airborne illness that we were needlessly exposed to in the waiting room or from contact with dirty surfaces.
Anyway it would have been a lot more pleasant if everyone took the preventative measures we took as one never knows for sure they haven't gotten an airborne disease from an exposure even though we wore our masks and did our part to protect them.. others didn't even try to protect us...I really resent being exposed to a virus from a bunch of dare I say sick morons coughing and sputtering in a doctor's office that don't have masks on...I really resent the nurse that gives me any signs they might be reluctant to mask for me and my loved one who stand before them already masked... that's sheer terror for me.. it makes sense to be scared of viruses.. and its not fair others don't protect themselves...I certainly don't want to take care of people who don't protect themselves and get sick... You really have keep that mask snug and secure, carry a lot of disinfectant and defend yourself. It's tough but you can do it!
Time to celebrate the mask that probably saved our life from "Friday's doctor office exposure to illness day"...
Here's some music and here's to those of you that wear a mask to save lives! Keep up the good fight masked crusaders! Those who use and wear the safety mask are my heroes! There's not enough of you!
Wailing Out Some Zany Dixieland in C Take 2
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rWa87T6ZgejZURABdOui3GC8QDmTxb2H/view?usp=sharingHere's yet more of me playing in the spur of the moment in front of ya:
When The Saints Go Marching In F
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bzI2yR2uSjWIN8B4oG_DCfakb-x09ni/view?usp=sharingLet’s play some more while I am at it.. music soothes the savage beast and I hope you find and get wrapped up in your dreams because a lot of crap and hurt is going on in these hard times… I shall call this
Counterpointlike on Margie... I am not familiar with this jazz melody or at least I can't remember how its main melody goes and don't feel like acquainting myself with its main melody so I'll just make something up and term this improvisational stuff of mine Counterpointlike:
Counterpointlike on Margie
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MOa1E75Qt__LCVZobaktGOEuTeE0eztr/view?usp=sharingI Can’t go out onto that big stage or play or create some unruly gathering .. that’s not my cup of tea in these hard times for the world .. I’d rather ncoyrage others hang back playing from the safety of home online.. I’d rather play for those who are safe and sound in their homes , dens , and rooms .. I’d rather play for you!
Here’s an audio mp3 (not a video) of me trying my hand at some
Jazz For A Smoothie in C7
Audio MP3 LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jxCw3rud0N1Xigqszt7xqhSoBkfQMhIX/view?usp=sharingBe safe, take precautions, Mask in public and still be happy and lead satisfying fulfilling lives like me, & Keep on Rocking' Data Report Users!
Richard/The Masked Man
P.S. Just a note on this endeavor to stay safe.. It ain't easy! Its not a perfect situation whatsoever... The cats just peed upstairs in the wrong place .. I am far from perfect. I get lazy with other things in my life. I have given up many conveniences. I can't just have people over to help fix things I don't really keep up with all maintenance because of the threat and very real possibility of catching covid or another airborne illness. It can be very traumatic attempting to live free from viruses. I definitely make sacrifices to stay safer and many people probably hate me for that and that's okay. There is fear, anger, frustration, and resentment involved in this gamut naturally. Ya can't have everything all the time you, he, she, and they want it.. Its definitely not an easy task to stay safe... I definitely respect and commend those who are attempting to try to stay safe.
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