Too many living in bubble of judgment
People approve of what fits their beliefs. If not, then everyone else is wrong.
Too many people live in a self-quarantined bubble.
Not the protective bubble againstCOVID-19, but a pretend bubble against our COVID-19 fears. We randomly pick and choose which precautions to followbased on a hodgepodge of beliefs that often conflict with each other. Yetwe continue to act on a blind faith of chosen theories despite its obvious hypocrisies.
For example, those people who insist that everyone elsewear a facial mask in public— at all times— although they’re allowed to be selective about it. If they choose towear a mask only in certain social situations, they expect others to simply nod and agree with their double standard.
I’ll bet you knowsomeone in your social circle who fits this two-faced description. I’m tired of nodding and agreeing throughmy mask of smirks and sighs.
Eitherwear amask and practice social distancing for all social situations, or stop preaching to others howto do so during this public health crisis. It’s like sermonizing about going to heaven while doing deeds thatwill certainly send you to hell.
I’m sick of playing the pandemic game of pretend with these people.
I’ve noticed an emerging similarity between how people cherry-pick their scientific beliefs regarding this pandemic and how people cherry-pick their religious beliefs. If it fits their lifestyle, they approve. If not, everyone else is in the wrong.
This haughty attitude exposes a contagion of self-righteousness that I’ve spent a lifetime to avoid. With both groups of zealots, we’re supposed to believe exactlywhat they believe orwe’re the ones either going to hell or contractingCOVID-19.
Both of these judgments are contaminated with a smugness that seeps through their mask or their faith. Preach less and practice more, I say. Otherwise it’s just more lieswe’re subjected to without a vaccination in sight.
According to PolitiFact, a nonpartisan fact-checking website to sort out the truth in American politics, the biggest lie of 2020 did not come from our president or any other politician.
The biggest lie involved any claims that “denied, downplayed or disinformed” aboutCOVID-19. “Lies infected America in 2020. The veryworstwere not just damaging, but deadly,” PolitiFact stated last month.
PolitiFact’s editor-inchief Angie DrobnicHolan told the Poynter Institute, “Ultimately, we decided on lies about the coronavirus because health andwellbeing are at the core of what it means to be human. If you can’t keep yourself and your family safe and healthy, you can’t form a government with your fellowcitizens. Life itself comes before democracy.”
I disagree with PolitiFact’s conclusion. I say the biggest lies are the oneswe tell ourselves, without enough (or any) proof, evidence or justification. Too many of us habitually lie to ourselves and expect everyone else to believe these lies.
TheCOVID-19 pandemic has only further revealed this ancient truth.
“There is absolutelyNO reason on God’s green earth for healthy people to be forced towearmasks. This is democrat-political, 100%, and it meansSHUTYOUR MOUTHSANDOBEY,” wrote Scott Cullen, a reader from Tucson, Arizona. “That is why many of us refuse towear masks unless forced to, and thenwe take them off once inside. Because it is complete bull(expletive).”
Cullen continued to preach the gospel of what he believes is The Truth regarding this pandemic.
“No matter what Google, Snopes, and anyone else says, to those in the know that really control things, (call them the Illuminati, or whatever youwant, the superrich like Soros) COVID-19 really does mean C=SEE, OVID=SHEEP, 19=SURRENDER,” he wrote via email. “That’s why the corporate media was told to constantly call it ‘COVID-19,’ NOTthe Corona Virus. I refuse to be a dumb sheep.”
Like I said, too many people live in a self-quarantined bubble. Most of them are convinced that it’s other people who do so. It’s an unmasked illusion of arrogance.