Palpable Pandemic Pugilism

Sullied Soapbox: I don't understand why people fear poisonous snakes. Just don't eat them! It's not as though they try to jump into your mouths most of the time! Besides... Venomous serpents can just bite you out of nowhere and envenom you, which is far more common and perilous. Coronavirus.

COVID-19

Dr. Mantis Toboggan, MD.

Australia. America. The UK. Various non-white-majority countries that no True American cares about because Laos might as well be Bolivia, am I right? Ahem. People are scared. Epidemiology and its studied implications are not fully accepted. Mindless contact points for the virus extol willful ignorance to entirely too many people. Numerous masses of these folks consider the whole shebang a hoax. They leave themselves open. Pervasive ignorance endangers common people.

It has been a few months. At this point, I assume that I am a vector. I feel healthy but have and will encounter the ailing. My allergic or gone-down-the-wrong-tube cough could launch the virus at those around me. Visiting my father exposes him to my germ floor; I want him to live for a couple more decades, so I cannot rightfully stop by the house for a while.

I work as a server/bartender. Restaurant work has been shuttered or shall suffer. Takeout orders are still fine as of right now, but how many people will tip? How many folks consider tipping on takeout orders as the right thing to do to begin with? How can small businesses survive without dine-in crowds and/or alcohol sales? Note that capitalistic concerns in that last paragraph involve numerous questions coming from my life experience that leave me for want of words to express how colossally poverty has been crushing me; the paragraph preceding it focuses on statements of concern for the health of others. Seriously, folks. Help each other.