![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWhile the rest of New York State is opening up, New York City remains locked down, well for the most part. They did re-open the New York Stock Exchange today - considering I didn't know it was shut down...Apparently, they continued to run it remotely, and just didn't let anyone really back in the building until today. Now it has a skeleton crew of sorts, and hefty restrictions. Masks, social distancing, hand sanitizer. In addition, no one is permitted to take public transportation to get there - if you can't get there in another way - you get to continue working remotely from home.
I have a feeling this will most likely be my situation as well, until at least July. I'm not ready to go back - I don't trust people to abide by the rules to keep me and everyone else safe. People are selfish nitwits. So, yes, I am afraid of the nitwits. I posted on the Kensington Face Book page in exasperation to the nitwits in my neighborhood. They were whinging about having to put on face masks to get to their car, walking their dog, riding a bike, taking a short jog, or walking down the block. Meanwhile in a desperate post right below them, was Midnight Jane's post about being an ICU nurse, wearing a mask, and googles twelve hours a day - and it's so painful by that point, she has permanent indentations and scratches from the latext under her eyes and above her nose. I told them that all they had to do was wear a mask for an hour maybe less - to keep us all safe, and to honor the people who have to wear them all day long in essential professions such as grocery store clerk, bus driver, transit worker, nurse, doctor, security guard, and police, etc. It's a small thing to do. Be kind. Wear a mask.
Honestly, some people are assholes. I want to take a big stick and spank their bottoms. OR smack them upside the head.
Frustrated and exasperated from Work, and well everything else, the less said about it, the better...there are days in which I feel like all I'm doing is whinging - I went for a very long meditative walk in Greenwood Cemetery. It was a beautiful day for it, not all that many people out and about, and the ones that were - unlike over the memorial day weekend -- were wearing masks. Yay team!
Greenwood Cemetery was peaceful. It's a kind of oasis from the hustle and bustle of the city. Although to a degree surrounded by residential areas, there's never been that much hustle or bustle around it. There is more traffic than there was before, and I heard more of it. Also more cars driving around it.
People are creeping out. The Governor pointed out in his live briefing today from the Stock Exchange (he certainly gets around), that while there would be people eager to get out and back to things as if nothing happened, most would be hesitant and wait. The PTSD of this thing was going to have a huge effect. Well, yeah, in part because of the idiots who think we all overreacted to it. The NY Times did a survey and realized most people are hesitant to go anywhere because of the idiots.
I have a feeling this will most likely be my situation as well, until at least July. I'm not ready to go back - I don't trust people to abide by the rules to keep me and everyone else safe. People are selfish nitwits. So, yes, I am afraid of the nitwits. I posted on the Kensington Face Book page in exasperation to the nitwits in my neighborhood. They were whinging about having to put on face masks to get to their car, walking their dog, riding a bike, taking a short jog, or walking down the block. Meanwhile in a desperate post right below them, was Midnight Jane's post about being an ICU nurse, wearing a mask, and googles twelve hours a day - and it's so painful by that point, she has permanent indentations and scratches from the latext under her eyes and above her nose. I told them that all they had to do was wear a mask for an hour maybe less - to keep us all safe, and to honor the people who have to wear them all day long in essential professions such as grocery store clerk, bus driver, transit worker, nurse, doctor, security guard, and police, etc. It's a small thing to do. Be kind. Wear a mask.
Honestly, some people are assholes. I want to take a big stick and spank their bottoms. OR smack them upside the head.
Frustrated and exasperated from Work, and well everything else, the less said about it, the better...there are days in which I feel like all I'm doing is whinging - I went for a very long meditative walk in Greenwood Cemetery. It was a beautiful day for it, not all that many people out and about, and the ones that were - unlike over the memorial day weekend -- were wearing masks. Yay team!
Greenwood Cemetery was peaceful. It's a kind of oasis from the hustle and bustle of the city. Although to a degree surrounded by residential areas, there's never been that much hustle or bustle around it. There is more traffic than there was before, and I heard more of it. Also more cars driving around it.
People are creeping out. The Governor pointed out in his live briefing today from the Stock Exchange (he certainly gets around), that while there would be people eager to get out and back to things as if nothing happened, most would be hesitant and wait. The PTSD of this thing was going to have a huge effect. Well, yeah, in part because of the idiots who think we all overreacted to it. The NY Times did a survey and realized most people are hesitant to go anywhere because of the idiots.
Idiots
Date: 2020-05-27 03:16 am (UTC)Then there is the one of the NYC woman (don't think she qualifies as a lady) who called the police and claimed her life was being threatened, when a black man asked her to put her leash back on her dog in the park, as is the law. Fortunately the man was recording and the woman got fired from what sounded like a high paying job.
The last few days I wished slapping upside the head would have actually worked sometimes. I kept remembering a woman many years ago sitting in front of me at a public meeting smugly puffing her cigarette despite no smoking signs in the room, and her making a snide comment to her friend beside her when an official up front asked people not to smoke there. I was tempted to box her ears. But I knew it would do neither me nor her any good.
There have always been would-be Trumps around who think their lies and excuses are as good as fact. I have no doubt they think the rest of us are suckers for not behaving as badly as they do.
Re: Idiots
Date: 2020-05-27 12:29 pm (UTC)Friend: I have the right to smoke wherever I want.
Me: No, you don't. You do not have the right to pollute other people's air.
Friend: That's BS. Second-hand smoke is total BS.
Me: No, it's not. I'm allergic to smoke and it does affect others, and they do die from it. I'm glad they stopped you from smoking in bars -
Friend: Well, you are wrong. Wa! Wa!
That was the last time I spoke with her - it was about a month ago. She drives me nuts.
My tolerance for entitled brats has waned over years, so I don't always bite my tongue. About five or six years ago, I would have just let her whine and said nothing.
What she doesn't understand is we aren't entitled to anything in this life.
Nothing. Life is a gift, not an entitlement. Take it for granted, see how that works out for her...note, not all that well.