COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 97

This was another humid day. I really hope they find this vaccine soon because I am tired of wearing masks. I cannot wear them outside because I start wheezing. There are even stories of people fainting from ingesting too much carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is lethal, but a certain amount of carbon dioxide, dear friends, is also lethal. I keep seeing people outside wearing masks when they do not need to, such as when they are by themselves or the closest person to them is well over 6 feet away. This is not the right weather for prolonged use of masks! When I went out today, I only donned my mask when I entered a store or confronted a stranger. This is the only time we need these masks. It seems like we are darned if we do and darned if we don't.

So, it is the middle of the weekend. How many Chicagoans will be shot by Monday? How many will be killed? How many of these will be children? Pardon the sarcasm, but is that not what we have come to in Illinois, where no one can enjoy a summer weekend without someone getting killed? That's why I doubt that people truly believe that Black Lives Matter. If Black lives truly mattered, why did it take a Ku Klux Kop suffocating a Black man in broad daylight, in the scope of a camera, for the mainstream to say something? Because it is now a fashion statement or a slogan White liberals say to feel good about themselves? If Black lives truly mattered, why do so many Black men keep killing Black men over gang affiliations or because someone was nosy? Why do so many Black women keep sacrificing their children on the altar of Planned Parenthood? Yet these same men and women will destroy cities when a Ku Klux Kop murders one of us. If our lives don't matter to each other, why should they matter to anyone else?

--Signing off.

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