Digital Montage designed by AleXander Hirka / Used with permission / “Meditation” — Francesco Hayez

The Masks are Beginning to Slip

And I need to get over myself

Remington Write
The Partnered Pen
Published in
4 min readJun 10, 2021

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Welp, the geniuses at the CDC have spoken. Again. It’s hard to tell how much credence to give these “experts”, however. You’ll recall that these are the same Einsteins who told us not to wear masks last April as our friend, the virus, was really getting up a good head of steam.

Then they coughed into their masks and corrected themselves.

Yes, people, yes yes yes do wear masks. But not to protect yourselves because it doesn’t work that way. Do it to protect those around you in case you’re infected.

We all remember how well that went over (you know who you are).

Photo Credits — Remington Write / A surprisingly empty 2 train going downtown this morning

Well, here we are a year later and it appears that most of this city got the memo. Most. Not all. Because there are always going to be some bozos who sit on the subway with their masks slung under their chins or defiantly refusing to wear a mask at all. On any given day on any given subway car or bus or in any given store, I’d say 95 % of us are properly masked.

But it has been one very long year and when you get us outdoors, it’s a different story. Surprisingly, about half of the people I…

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