Went into several stores today without a mask and it was glorious. Made me truly realize how much I hate the masks and how very much my cognition suffered with those things on.

The woman at the counter helping me get some shrimp pad thai said, as I was for once in the mood to be very charming, “It’s so nice to see people’s faces again.” Right on, sister. About 2/3 of the people in the store we dropped by were without masks, though it wasn’t that crowded.

Mask culture needs now to be destroyed as the virus retreats since it has soured into yet another aspect of the abandonment of community and civilization and is emblematic of withdrawing into the loathsome pod.