...and the downside

If this year, and all its strange occurrences, have taught me one thing above all others, it’s this: People, generally, are f**king idiots.
My cold is quite clearly a cold, and only a mild one at that, so I pleaded my case with Head Office and was allowed to drag myself back into work today. I like being at home, but there were a few things I had to get sorted with the Store Manager and it was just so much easier to do it face-to-face and on-site.
I spent the first hour persuading two members of staff that I wasn’t putting them at risk of death by being back. I spent the rest of the day having people step away from me every time I blew my nose or sneezed, and I spent most of the time in between explaining to customers with less IQ than a fridge door the differences between Covid symptoms and a regular Winter cold.
Nothing has changed since February, how are there still huge numbers of people who don’t have a f**King clue about this stuff? A simple list of symptoms to watch out for, a simple set of rules to follow, and anyone would think you were asking them to recalibrate the solar panel settings on the ISS.
And then there’s the anti-vaccine stupidity and ignorance that is dominating the world of social media. I’m not going to drag myself down further by discussing it, I’m just going to hope that a massive Electro-Magnetic Pulse wipes out all the internet before Mathew reaches 5 so he doesn’t grow up into this shit and be affected by it.

RC 15-12-20