I totally understand why people think wearing a mask is horrible… I have to wear my mask… for 8+ hours a day!
If I wear it – properly- for your safety; I expect you to wear it for 20 mins (and less) properly for my safety!
I’m blessed to have been working throughout …it has been crazy and stressful but it is necessary. I am stressed daily because of people’s lack of concern and their open disregard for my safety and of those around them.

My mother is high risk… she is a STAGE IV lung cancer survivor!!! She has had chemo and radiation. She also has COPD.

She is my hero. You would never know looking on how she acts and lives her life…she is helping raise my 9 year old daughter (who didn’t see me for a whole month during lock down because of the law and I didn’t want to risk my mom’s health), she works out twice a week at the gym (of course she hasn’t been able to until this week) and she volunteers a few days a week at drop off at school..keeping the kids safe… the teachers and moms are in awe of her at how seriously she takes her ‘job’s (of course she hasn’t been doing that since this started) (one teacher calls her ‘GG’ and says that she is the most fashionable granny), she always looks put together when she goes out.. even to the gym and she has more energy than me!!

Her safety is important to me and I get so upset and frustrated when I risk my safety and hers to serve people who do not care about mine (or others). They say it is uncomfortable…it fogs up their glasses…it is just a conspiracy…the government wants control…I’m not sick etc etc.
Classic…they pull their mask down to talk…uh, that is the exact time you keep it up for when you are ‘spitting’ the droplets as you talk. I’ve even heard about and seen people comment on Facebook about people pulling their masks down to sneeze!

I notice people ‘out and about’ not wearing masks and not social distancing. I’ve heard stories from friends and others about people walking around town without masks!

I’m so concerned about phase IV because without the necessary precautions…that I do not see the majority of people following… we risk our community and our lives.

I realize the necessity to return to as much normalcy as possible… to get people working… kids at school and camps (it has been extremely difficult for my daughter… I’m sure her not seeing me for a month caused her great anguish…)… I understand the cost benefit analysis.
My issue is with the actual lack of compliance…which is just getting worse because most people are getting complacent.
I even heard someone say the other day that COVID19 is no longer in Bermuda!

If we move forward without compliance there will be dire consequences … we will have community spread of COVID19.
My apologies for the rant but too many people are not taking this seriously.