I don't enjoy the thought that my blog is rather becoming like one of those outlets where people complain about covid and tout conspiracy theories about it.... but this stuff is really remarkable to me and I don't know how to process it. When I don't know how to process something, it goes on my blog. 

The latest covid restrictions just came down the pipes from corporate. Now, vaccinated people don't have to wear masks unless they're (a) in a conference room with unvaccinated people, or (b) within 6 ft of an unvaccinated person. If you are unvaccinated, the new rule is that you have to wear your mask all the time, even if you're alone at your desk. (I will be working with my door closed from now on). You may only take it off if you are in a break room and eating.

We aren't allowed to ask one another about our medical history, so the corporate lawyers have determined that we can get around that rule by instead requiring everyone to display their vaccination status openly, by carrying a red or green badge. If you are vaccinated and you see someone with a red badge, you have to don your mask before coming within 6 ft of them.

Let's not forget that the reason vaccinated people have to mask up before approaching unvaccinated people is that the vaccine doesn't actually give you immunity. You can still catch and spread covid after you get vaccinated. And, the mask protects the people around you from yourself, not the other way around. And, unvaccinated people are (if the msm is right) at higher risk for developing severe symptoms than vaccinated people. So, that is to say, all the stuff in my previous blog about it being irrational to require unvaccinated people to wear masks more often than vaccinated people, is still true

So basically, they're making unvaccinated people into functional pariahs. They have to cover their face at all times, wear an additional mark of their status, and everyone else must don PPE before approaching them.

I'm no psychologist, so I won't speculate about objective psychological consequences that might occur broadly as a consequence of this, but I will say that I'm personally having a hard time with it, and I expect that being the only person wearing a mask all the time, and watching people catch themselves and don their PPE before approaching, or avoid me altogether to avoid the discomfort of a mask, may be a distressing experience for me emotionally. Idk how I'm going to handle it if the policy lasts a long time, or worse, if it extends beyond the workplace.

If I'm to try to frame this in a positive light, I suppose I'd say that this will give me the opportunity to discover any the other unvaccinated people in the factory, so that I can pull them aside and discuss the matter at length, and find out how they're handling it.

"You are sharks, certain; but if you govern the shark in you, why then you would be angels; for all angels are nothing more than sharks well governed."