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Show consideration!
The pharmacy signs call me, the messages on the subway speakers, the stickers on the supermarket floor. Everywhere we are asked to show consideration in these times.
There really is no problem. Still. With each day, week and month of the pandemic lasting all eternity, it becomes increasingly clear that this consideration is one-way. Consideration in one direction, cruelty in the other.
There are quite a few of us who start to get tired of strangers who allow themselves to scold us in the store or on the bus because they feel that you have come a millimeter closer. On the tram, the day before yesterday, I sat in the only free seat with the right distance for everyone around. But a slightly older woman in a yellow raincoat obviously felt she was still too close, even though there was a mandatory little more than six feet between us. She immediately got up and gave me a look that is kindly described as hateful. Then she stood in the doors, shook her head, and muttered. When she got out, she hit the window where I was sitting with her fist.
This is becoming an increasingly common food. Showing consideration for some just means that we should keep our distance and spread our hands, not behave like people to each other.
I try to respect the one who is afraid, but you must still be able to maintain common sense. Over time, the feeling grows that, along with a pandemic, everyone who is generally mean in everyday life has the opportunity to wreak havoc freely. The kind of people who ride bikes if they don’t jump off the road or like to push strollers they think are in the way.
In the ICA queue, I see in the distance a woman who seems to be waiting for the opportunity to have an outbreak. And yes, a little boy with his bag of candy comes up and she screams, really screams, “Keep your distance!” and spreads arms and waves. The child is ready to cry. I’m not directly the type to turn the other cheek, but she does ask the woman to calm down and use a kinder tone and remember that it is a child in front of her. She hisses, sweeps, furious.
A friend says she stopped going to one of her family’s restaurants because the owner was terrified of the fear of the crown and began scolding guests who hugged or shook hands. The friend has begun to divide her friends and acquaintances in before and after the crown, who can behave and not. This is not a stupid idea.
When I browse the Instagram of celebrities or make the mistake of joining certain Facebook groups, no consideration is shown. Anyone who posts a party photo or group photo is condemned in the rudest way, completely unsolicited. Despite the fact that everyone who cares for others writes that they have antibodies and are in private company. At the beginning of the corona outbreak, many openly speculated on social media about who might have been in the Alps and spread rumors about who might have been sick and that they should at least stay home. Pure reporting society and as far from showing consideration as you can get,
Please understand me correctly, of course, the rules and recommendations must be followed. But if you’re so scared of getting infected that everyone else feels like potential death threats and enemies, you should consider staying indoors. Acting like a pig is not showing consideration, pandemic or not.
