STAY HOME.WEAR YOUR MASK, SAVE LIVES.
SO: You can’t be hassled to put on a SIMPLE MASK?
Do you own a special right to rob us of our loved ones, of our lives, of our time, our finances, heritage and hopes? Of our peace of mind?
You can’t be hassled to put on ONE THIN MASK?
Where is National Solidarity with your own Compatriots?
Where is Patriotic Selflessness, Intelligence and Compassion?
Where is National Superiority and Vision?
Do you know what an 80-year old or 90-year or 100-year old life represents?
A century of history witnessed and sacrifices made, a treasure chest of memories, stories, firsthand knowledge and wisdom, a caudal of solutions forgotten to humanity that may save our future.
A century of hugs, kisses and smiles shared with every life they’ve touched along the way.
Somebody’s parent, grandparent, great-grandparent and even great great grandparent and their unique transmitter of culture, family history, identity, continuity, purpose and values.
The most fragile living crystal of human heritage you could ever imagine, that is a never-ending fountain of information, anecdotes, observations, formulas, sage advice, graceful puns twinkling smiles, and above all, pure love.
A never-ending fountain of tenderness.
And... You can’t be hassled to put on A LIGHT MASK?
Do you know what a Mother is?
She is her children’s World.
She is their incubator for growth.
She is their nurturer, physically and emotionally, aesthetically and spiritually.
She is their sense of beauty, affection, and everything feminine and cozy in the world.
She is the one person in the world who knows them intimately, who reads their face and mind, who knows what they need before they themselves do.
She is their conspirator and strategist.
She is the only person in the world who will care 100% unconditionally for them for life.
And ditto for a Father.
And... You can’t be hassled to put on AN EFFORTLESS MASK?
Do you know the sacrifices we make throughout a lifetime to study, to grow and learn, to take care of ourselves, to be a better person, to make a contribution in the world?
Do you know the time it takes to build a home, a career, a family, a cause, a legacy?
Do you know how hard we’ve tried through life’s ups and downs, and risen from the ashes just to be there for those we love when they need us?
And... You can’t be hassled to put on a 2-SECOND MASK?
If you don’t care about yourself,
If your loved ones are dispensable to you,
If you don’t want to give this importance,
If you failed to educate yourself and have nothing better to do than consume conspiracy videos and delirious talk radio instead of Science and observing the empirical evidence of people dying all around you,
If you tout convenience and indulgence as your “freedoms” and can’t make a sacrifice during wartime for your own compatriots,
If you relish the idea of prolonguing this pandemic until people lose their homes, the economy crashes, our food supply chains collapse and there is famine, so you can pull out your Rambo gear,
If you have a God complex, think you’re invincible or have an exclusive right to destroy people’s lives,
... carry on with that in your own mind.
BUT PUT ON THE MASK.
Just DO NOT rob someone of their mother or their father, a child of their precious grandparents, society of its elders, or an elder of their right to longevity and to enjoy life after surviving a century.
DO NOT threaten your fellow human being’s inherent Right to Life. Your rights end where ours begin.
Every time you go out WITHOUT A MASK, you’re setting back the quarantine clock to ZERO for all of us.
YOU are the only conduit for spreading the virus – it has no other way of surviving past a few days on its own.
The mask does not only say you’re protecting yourself: It says you CARE.
It says you’re protecting others around you.
It says you’re a responsible citizen with a head on your shoulders.
It says you’re protecting your country and humanity to get out of this as quickly as possible and back to normal life.
It says you’re not a procrastinator and you’re not going to drag this out eternally for the rest of us.
WEAR A MASK EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU GO OUTSIDE.
People showing their full faces outside right now are saying, with their full face as a neon sign:
I don’t care if you die,
I don’t care if I kill your family,
I don’t care if you have to stay inside and out of work for another two months or a year,
I don’t care if you go bankrupt and lose your home, your business, your life savings and retirement, your child's college fund, the last cent of your family's emergency money,
I don't care about the pregnant, newborns, elderly, handicapped, immuno-compromised, the vulnerable, minorities or indigenous communities,
I don’t care if our society crashes.
Who are you?
Your face will become a poster of criminal negligence, and it will get recorded for posterity, as everyone all around photographs, videos and documents this moment of History. You can bet someone will make a collage of those unmasked faces.
Seriously, do you want to be that person?
Do you wear a seatbelt? How long does it take to click?
THEN. JUST. WEAR. THE. DAMN. MASK.
Is this message a bit strong? The consequences of not wearing a mask and following safety protocol right now are far stronger.
THIS terrifying animation shows how coronavirus particles from a single cough can hang in the air "several minutes" and spread across two aisles of a supermarket.
Scientists created a computer simulation to study how far the virus can travel indoors - and worryingly found how a cloud of droplets will infect others even after the sick person has walked away.
The scientists involved say that the best way to avoid catching the virus is to stay away from busy public spaces like shops and stations.
Professor Ville Vuorinen of Aalto University in Finland told the BBC: "If you go there, only go there seldom as possible. Stay there as short a time as possible"
In a statement accompanying the video, the researchers said: "Preliminary results indicate that aerosol particles carrying the virus can remain in the air longer than was originally thought, so it is important to avoid busy public indoor spaces.
"This also reduces the risk of droplet infection, which remains the main path of transmission for coronavirus."
The study was conducted by scientists from Finland's Aalto University, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and the University of Finland.
Experts researched how small airborne aerosol particles are transported in the air when emitted from the respiratory tract when sneezing, coughing or even talking.
They said: "In the situation under investigation, the aerosol cloud spreads outside the immediate vicinity of the coughing person and dilutes in the process.
"However, this can take up to several minutes.
“Extremely small particles of this size do not sink on the floor, but instead, move along in the air currents or remain floating in the same place."
Professor Vuorinen also said: "Someone infected by the coronavirus can cough and walk away, but then leave behind extremely small aerosol particles carrying the coronavirus.
"These particles could then end up in the respiratory tract of others in the vicinity."
