It just struck me tonight, (after a glass of something quite enjoyable) that this is all kind of borrowing plot-lines from classic "western" movies:
2020-2021 "Hands up! Everybody get in the house, stay there, and if you do exactly what we say, nobody gets hurt!"
2023 "Who *was* that masked man?"
2024 "What do you mean, 'we', Kemosabe?"
--- On a more serious note, over the past week I received word that in a circle I used to move in, one elderly, failing true believer in the vex had died after a stroke. Another (a fully vexed and fully-bearded man who still believed religiously that the mask offered him protection) had suffered yet another hemorrhagic stroke.
Re: Mask Mandates Have Returned
2020-2021
"Hands up! Everybody get in the house, stay there, and if you do exactly what we say, nobody gets hurt!"
2023
"Who *was* that masked man?"
2024
"What do you mean, 'we', Kemosabe?"
---
On a more serious note, over the past week I received word that in a circle I used to move in, one elderly, failing true believer in the vex had died after a stroke. Another (a fully vexed and fully-bearded man who still believed religiously that the mask offered him protection) had suffered yet another hemorrhagic stroke.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*