Who are these slobs, these lazy, ignorant fellow citizens, who discard rubber protective gloves onto sidewalks, parking lots and anywhere else?
It’s bad enough that we are all forced to socially distance and walk around semi-anonymous in masks in an effort to fight coronavirus. But how does any person possessing an ounce of brain power think it’s a good idea to discard gloves and masks wherever they want so that the trash sits and festers, a brightly-colored abomination mocking all of our efforts to bring the world back to normalcy.
Item photographer Spenser Hasak in the course of a 20-minute walk in Lynn photographed 17 discarded gloves and a mask. Lynn is certainly not unique in becoming a dumping ground over the last month for this debris.
How difficult is it for anyone wearing a mask or gloves to discard the protective wear properly? Answer: not difficult at all.
Only the laziest and most self-centered among us think it’s OK to practice this behavior.
What sort of thought process meanders through their heads? Does it occur to them that by discarding protective wear, they are passing on the job of cleaning up this mess to someone else — and potentially exposing that person to coronavirus?
Those who discard protective gear in a public place are sending a message that their own needs and security are paramount over the needs and security of everyone else around them. That selfishness flies in the face of the shared social responsibility and concern for all of our collective welfare that will ultimately determine if we survive coronavirus.
How can anyone show such blatant disregard for basic sanitary practices in an unprecedented time when a rampant disease is killing people? Answer: because they are selfish fools.
Imagine working in a grocery store and doing your best all through your work shift to protect yourself against coronavirus, only to walk out to the store parking lot and discover you have the task of sweeping up discarded gloves and masks.
These fools know who they are and, by definition, they undoubtedly have no qualms about littering at a time when life and death hang in the balance. But let’s make it clear as a society that it is time for the stupid and selfish among us to clean up their acts.
