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On purpose - to test her sincerity - I sidled up next to her and coughed while pretending to look at a few articles on a shelf. If she truly had been scared of getting the virus, she would have scrambled away from me, but she just stood there and continued to shop. So much for being afraid of getting Coronavirus, even though she was dressed to the nines in protection gear. I think she was wearing "all that stuff" to get attention, much like Western women suddenly dressing in hijabs wanting others to think they are Islamic. It's for attention.
I'm not afraid of getting CV. Why? Because exactly two - TWO! - people in the entire state of Florida have (sadly) died from it. Out of 23 million people living in Florida, there are 46 confirmed CV cases, and out of those 46 people, only 2 have died. So my chances of expiring from CV look slim to none.
Here is a Coronavirus dashboard - updated every 10 minutes - to keep track of CV numbers all over the world. You can reference it to see your own area of the planet, then sit down and calculate your chances of becoming a victim.
Here is the article about 17-year-old Avi Schiffman, builder of the website. and his web scraping technology to accurately report on CV while fighting misinformation and panic.
Meanwhile, there are exactly four rolls of toilet paper in my home - and I'm having company for a week. Should be enough.
Disappointing that you thought it appropriate to judge someone else's "sincerity." She was probably afraid, and so you tried to scare her? What exactly was the point of that unkindness?
ReplyDeleteThe woman was a hypocrite. She wasn't the least bit afraid....just as I suspected. She didn't pay any attention. Just as I suspected. After all, by her own choice, she WAS out in public walking around hundreds of other people. Maybe she had on earplugs. Who knows. If she had been afraid, why would she go out in public to a thrift shop? There's no toilet paper there to buy. There was nothing essential in that shop that she needed. She was out shopping for pleasure. Shopping for pleasure while dressed in CV protection gear is HYPOCRITICAL.
ReplyDeleteAnd what exactly was her point dressed like that walking around a thrift shop, shopping for pleasure? To scare the rest of us into fear of coronavirus? That we should follow every word of the MSM and be hysterical? To shame those of us whose view is considered by hysterical people to be "dangerous" because we don't think there is a crisis?
I had at first thought of walking up to her, patting her on her raincoat, and telling her sympathetically that there is no crisis except for the crisis the MSM and globalists want to make. Global economic collapse? Get rid of President Trump? Global takeover by the left?
Planetary euthanasia of the elderly so they won't overburden the healthcare system? Obliteration of the Catholic Church? (See how easy it was for "them" to shut down the Church?
"Them": "Three people have a virus!!"
Church hierarchy: OMG! No Masses for forever! Lock the church doors!
I am on the fringe, dress in my daily schleppy clothing, can read the same expressions I used to have as a young mother and housewife on strangers' faces. If anyone with mental illness, like I have battled, wasn't already scared to go out in public, this latest reality is very sadly proving their phobias true.
ReplyDeleteShame on you for making assumptions and being harsh. Perhaps this woman had not come out of her living space in who knows how long or why...you do not have the right, based on present factors at a thrift store, to decide who is real, who is posing, who is acting out.
Your Christianity was sorely lacking. May you never find yourself in her shoes. Nobody in their right mind would think her outfit would impede a virus. She armored up for whatever reason, ventured out, and you negated her effort. Likewise I doubt and negate your ability to read her mind, then prove your certainty with a cruel "test." Shame on you.
Jesus' lost lamb and even an angel walking amongst us can look just like her, or me. You could have just as easily asked, So what are you looking for today?
I do. And I make sweet friends who, like me, are invisible to most.
Your focus on petty, picune resistance to the severity of 19 is obvious. It overshadows anything you say about being a true Catholic.
Read the verses in the Bible relating to entertaining angels. And the Beatitudes about the meek of the earth. The poor in spirit.
You had a chance to reach out and your bigotry won out.
Glad you called her out. What is worse, upon reflection, is the inordinate hoarding of life's necessities. The tissue, paper towels, the basics to get us through a week. Empty meat counters? These people are seriously touched. Such a complete and utter lack of charity especially toward those less able to fend for themselves. What goes around comes around and soon I hope.
ReplyDeleteWe are destroying our local economies and banning Masses over another form of the common cold. This would make for great comedy if it wasn’t real. I’m sure the majority of faithless bishops/clergy are enjoying their vacations.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - I had just come from another thrift shop where I did see an "angel walking among us". She was a middle aged woman, very thin, with no teeth and a pot belly, dressed in sandals, short shorts and a tank top, with thin hair pulled tightly back in a tiny knot.
ReplyDeleteThis shop was going out of business because the town is widening the road, so the woman, who was an employee, was going around taking pictures of all the various objects on shelves. Everything was half price, so I bought a few things.
As I was paying, this woman came to the counter and stood there to the side. She noticed that my Scapular had slipped around my neck, so she stepped forward, took the Scapular in her hands and was straightening it up. I thought she was going to turn it all the way around so said that the piece she had in her hands really went in the back.
But she already knew that, she said, because she also has a "spirit necklace" where one piece goes in the front and one in the back so that the spirits can protect us. She told me the name of her religion or spirit - or perhaps the name of the type of necklace. However, I couldn't understand what she said so thanked her for straightening my Scapular and listened to what she was trying to tell me.
After paying, I started to pick up the two plastic bags of things I had bought, when she went around to my other side and graciously picked up the packages and walked me to the car, placed them gently on the passenger side floor, then tied the bags shut while explaining that by doing so nothing would spill out when I picked them up once at home.
I was so touched by her kindness and thoughtfulness. As I left I worried for her...because what would she do when the shop closed at the end of this month? Who would hire her? Clearly this was a person dearly loved by God, poor and unhealthy, trying her best to find her way to God from whatever education she had ever had, wearing her spirit necklace to keep evil away.
I thanked God for having the privilege of meeting such a good person, struggling to get by in this world.
My next stop was the thrift shop where I saw the woman in her mask, blue latex gloves and raincoat. After shopping thrift stores for 18 years I have seen the elderly poor, the insane, young people with obvious diseases shopping with their families, Downs Syndrome people - babies, young people, elderly.
Last month a man with some sort of mental disease was in a wheelchair shopping with his mother. He would look at people and say he loved them. His mother kept shushing him. I was on the same aisle and when I looked up he looked at me and said, "I love you!" I said, "I love you too!" Then he wanted to touch me, so I went and leaned over and put my arms around him. I told him I loved him again and gave him a kiss on his cheek. He then continued his shopping and telling all the people people he loved them. His mother silently voiced "Thank you" to me and we continued shopping.
So don't play the high horse with me by your own miscalculated inhibited judgement of others (me, in this instance) in thinking I am too uncharitable, un-Christian, harsh, and worst of all, not a "true Catholic". So...are you, by doing all your judgment, behaving as a true Catholic?
While we cannot read people's minds and hearts, we can read their body language.