The gauntlet thrown

This is war

A new team tonight. Good cadres. Enforcing Kaiser rules. I returned to Kaiser at 6:45 PM.

Daughter waited for me then left. I mentioned to the nurse coming in to check up that I was spending the night and would appreciate a couple blankets. This raised concern. Manager came. I said no issues last two nights. Ah concern is I DO NOT WEAR MY MASK 24/7. I smiled. I said no worries I have no Covid and wife has brain cancer so you vaccinated and masked folks are SAFE.

This caused my 30 something Chinese cadre concern. She came back with the rule sheet highlighted in Orange. Yup. It did say gotta go at 8 and must wear mask.

Smiling once more I said lemme speak to your boss. She came back. Boss tomorrow. Tonight obey and mask and stay. Nah. I detest them. Science says bogus. These EMPLOYEES have to know this is bull shit.

My voice rised. My temper rised higher First the night shift here until 7 AM wanted to kick me out. At 8:15 PM a manger/leader nurse insists if I mask I may stay. Further door must be open. Further if I dare unmask woe betide me. All night I am promised I'll be checked on. I packed and tried to leave. Judith pleaded I inhale what I exhale. With rage I agreed. The nurse did not care for my opinion as she studied microbiology. A pity. Perhaps a Smart Student capable of confusing reality with fakery but in it, with it, for it, but because I do have a mean streak as wide as old Earth I observed her fully vaccinated status and fake Covid meant double plus ungood news for her, especially because she masks. I added it is fully vaccinated filling hospitals. Not asymptomatic people. She denied the truth but acknowledged she had heard of Dr. Pan and Covid misinformation. We uselessly argued because I'm nothing but a man. Shutting up hath tremendous benefits with the paid ignorant hirelings but ….shutting up when enraged by Folly is not a strong suit. I have opinions. I think they are accurate. If a paranoid schizophrenic deluded by disinformation then my whole life could be explained as my being deluded by Phantasms.

I wanted badly to go home. I stayed. A novel I swear is in the making. I am over the top. No man's land. Artillery bursting with poison gas. 1918.

The plot simple. Grandfather lives despite the gas. Dies in the 1940’s. His children are then the story. Then their children of the 60’s. Then their children reduced to me in the hospital in a time of total insanity called culling.

Slap in the Romantic situations and cool scenery and fine food and presto with clever work San Francisco December 2022 described as London of Jekyll and Hyde.

Dr. Hyde and his right hand roustabout Mr. Jekyll.

Jekyll the urbane diplomatic fixer and Dr. Hyde the psycho killer who works for Kaiser.

Tonight my mask with room door wide open is beneath my nostrils.

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