Long walk in a mask.

1. Far from making me reckless; it was inhibiting & never let me forget that even my breath cd be dangerous to the city now.

2. By accident or design it was practice & prep for the experience of shortness of breath.

3. Made me grateful for respiration.

It is a very new phenomenon to think not as part of a family or a city or a political party or a social group or a nation but as a member of a SPECIES.

The mask as a marker to others that “I’m not immune & might be infectious” seems like a good adaptation for an organism.

Likewise once we can test for immunity/antibodies I’m in favor of Larry Brilliant’s proposal: bracelets or other markers for people who have survived Covid & have had their immunity confirmed.

It’s something like a Purple Heart crossed with a Girl Scout badge that says both I mean you no harm and I can help.

I don’t know if there’s a forgery market since a bracelet signals that you’re willing to be recruited to help others — it’s not a Coachella VIP pass. But I don’t know entirely.