New York State recently — finally — ended its mask rules on public transportation.
Fortunately, since no one ever really enforced this maddening mandate, it was super easy for me to ignore it — while also ignoring the angry looks from others.
In case you’re wondering how the Big Apple has reacted to no longer having a subway mask mandate, I can share my personal experience from earlier today.
I counted 22 people (including me) in my subway car.
Eleven of them were voluntarily masked.
I made a meme for the occasion:
You should see the poor kids at my son's school whose awful parents make them wear masks. It is a sickening, shameful, reprehensible sight to behold. I have to do everything I can to restrain my impulse to knock the male parents (I won't call them fathers) down when I go there to pick my kid up, which I have to do in less than an hour's time today. This morning, after dropping him off, I saw a family of maskers with their two kids in a stroller. The children's eyes indicated fear and misery and suspicion, not wonder or awe. The thin-shouldered male parent was wearing two masks. These people are contemptible. Enough pity or compassion now. It's time to call them out for the abusive cowards that they are.
Here in Southern CA, we continually see people driving *alone* in their cars -windows up!- with masks on. My heart pings in sadness!💔Noticed a big uptick in voluntary masking when the school year began. Adults, kids, ughhhh🌧