Double-Oh-Seven: Licenced To Chill
Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle
Covid plus full vaccination equals chill.
The guy who barged past had all the symptoms, knuckles dragging, eyes glazed with entitlement, the “Proud to be Ignorant” hat, the “F*** everyone” T-shirt — deeply infected and well past hope. He came close to knocking an elderly woman off her walking frame on his way out. She presumably was there early like we were because the shop is deserted at that hour.
Sadly, the boor didn’t only have terminal idiocy, he also had covid — unsurprisingly there is a link between the two pandemics.
There was a time people wouldn’t have thought twice about taking measures to curtail the spread of an infectious disease that kills thousands and is not yet tamed by immunity or treatment, but now we’re told openly that profits come first, and “culling the elderly” will be a benefit. I was unsurprised to note that those pushing their Sacrifice-a-Granny policy defined “elderly” as “over 50, not their people, and obviously not their granny.”
The effects on us personally have been minimal to date — we have had to stay home, see no one, and sleep a lot. We were well up for that. I just hope the elderly shopper on the walking frame fared as well.
While enforced chill was the order of the day, good storytellers were a lifeline. Here are a few who have been keeping us company: Mary Chang Story Writer, Ellie Jacobson, Dunelair, Dennett, pockett dessert, Susan Alison, Maria Rattray, Kris Bedenian, Kim Zuch, Jennifer Pierce, Stuart Aken, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Diana Lotti, Will Hull, Nicole Anders, Anne Bonfert, Danielle Hestand, Teressa P.
