Something easy for me to say, J. Wilhelm, living at the other end/side of the world and in entirely different circumstances, is "walk away, and keep walking".
It is not worth your physical and mental wellbeing to exist in such circumstances - and I mean "exist" - you are not living.
I don't know where else to go. This is not the best time to get a job. My mother is in San Diego and I can see the protests there and the illness numbers too. California is not a good place right now, except that perhaps in time things could get under control, as opposed to just opening everything nilly willy and "see what happens." I'm clinging to this job, because I can't quit - I'd lose unemployment insurance. I can only get laid off and it would take 6 to 8 weeks to get assistance, assuming I get approved - and unemployment rules are changing now that the State of Texas is opening business - obviously the goal is to stop the bleeding, including the unemployment rate, even if is Federa money, it's managed by the state.
Right about now I really would like an RV, both to save money and gain mobility to a saner destination. I'm not sure it'd help much, but perhaps one could find a relatively safe spot. I wouldn't mind going back to making a living as a maker.
Ditto what Banfili said.
I've mentioned before, perhaps ad nauseum, what happened re my diabetes and various blood issues (includingthat disastrous blood infection a couple or few years ago, that landed me in the hospital, and - they tell me - very nearly killed me; the one involving the PICC line treatment). It very much became an issue of just having to walk away from subbing and teaching. Children really are, as (I believe it was) the Prof. who first described it thus, "little disease vectors."
I now, as I have mentioned ad nauseum before, am taking care of my parents. That's my whole employment, for all that Dad keeps insisting that learning to handle our tiny family's finances is my real job. I basically follow Dad around to make sure he doesn't get himself into a bad situation (had to call the ambulance a few times because he's such a stubborn fellow, also because the doctors kept prescribing things he can't handle) and take Mom to do the shopping.
BUT... I still have to deal with the public when I take a walk for exercise, or go out with Mom for the shopping, or run errands on my own. I've yet to be accosted by people exhorting me to not wear a mask, probably because my hayfever's in full swing now and I sometimes cough like a diesel switch engine (and no, I don't have the virus), and most of the people here locally know me and are aware of my chronic allergies, as I've been masking for my allergies in my buff-and-goggles getup for about four years prior to this current virus thing for about Early March through June every year.
BUT... lately, people have started to stare at me as I walk by, some seeming offended in some way. I hope I don't get attacked by a mob at some point (the Plandemic" thing is kind of a sore rubbing point around here right now) because I wear a mask habitually.
Anyway, Admiral, it seems to me that that might be what's fueling this anti-mask thing, this "Plandemic" movie that people keep posting all over the place. I never got a chance to watch more than the first few minutes of the vid, as it kept/keeps getting banned before I could do so, but going by the few minutes I did see, it seems like the kind of garbage a really mind-fried addict would spew. YMMV if you ever get to see it. I kind of doubt that, as the internet seems to be trying to keep it from being seen.
In any scase, Banfili, yes, I really do think some people are that bone-deep stupid. Unfortunately...
