To sprinkle yet more dread upon this 5#!+cake, I shall state that the following incident is very real. The setting: WAL-MART, NATURALLY. Time: mid-day. Personally, I don't recall why I was there, but that's not the important detail; the woman shopping a distance away was. For sake of ease, we shall call this woman Karen. Karen was shopping in the kids section. To her credit, she WAS wearing a mask. At this point you may be asking, where's the issue? Rest assured my compatriots, I'm getting there. I'm not entirely sure why I fixated on this shopper, but it was long enough for the dreaded moment that befell my eyes, and utterly b!+c#slapped my sensibilities.
This woman raised her left hand, pulled down her mask and, with that same hand, sneezed directly into it.
Now pause for a moment and TRULY LET THAT SINK IN. She removed her mask to SNEEZE INTO HER OWN HAND! This KAREN reduced the life-saving facemask measure to a mere FASHION ACCESSORY OF INCONVENIENCE!
Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is how we die as a species, the ALMIGHTY KAREN!