COVID is Not Pollen & The Outside Mask Person

The moment I hit the wall on others' pandemic panic

I was walking on the sidewalk of an overpass in Arlington, VA.  A middle aged man wearing a mask was walking toward me. What happened in the moment that we passed enraged me more than anything else in a year of pandemic restrictions and shutdowns. 

Outside Mask Person walking alone in Arlington, VA

We were the only people in sight. I’d taken off my mask t…