MASKED FEAR
Thursday, July 23, 2020
We’ve all heard of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
We’ve shuddered to think of the germ-o-phobia obsessed with hand washing, not touching anything not clean, and hoarding disinfectants.
We’ve laughed at their characters in movies, and given sideways glances at people acting weird on street corners or talking to themselves in coffee shops.
We all need to be a bit more like that, don’t we?
We look both ways in supermarket aisles, adjust our masks – or adapt our routes to avoid the people wearing masks, gloves, hats, and nervous stares.
If, as some experts have said recently, “These are early days,” we’ll get more OCD than anyone might have ever bargained for. No doubt, many will deny, avoid, and deflect.
Most days, most of us will be in-between relaxed and OCD, in-between safe and unsafe, in-between sanity and crazy-makers, our faces masked along with our fears. Early days indeed.
The age of COVID is not temporary, but we are instant gratification addicts – we want what we want, want to be safe, and want it now. It makes OCD seem almost rational.
Reader feedback:
As you say Mark, some of our new life will be the same. Political “leaders” will be inept, or worse, as they are now. LH, Lethbridge, AB
Absolutely lovely :) , AG, Cancun, Mex.
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