Frank and Upfront
7 min readOct 6, 2020

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What can antimaskers do to safeguard themselves during the pandemic?

Hello curious readers, welcome back to my online column. I hope you enjoyed reading my previous article, and found something useful that you can use to aid you along life’s journey. If not, then I hope you at least found the article to be thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking. In that article, I expressed my suspicion of the possibility that a number of high profile COVID cases might just be one giant media psyop. In this article, I’ll be going in depth on what I think the agenda is for targeting Donald Trump in particular, and what antimaskers can do to safeguard themselves during the pandemic.

By now, you must have heard that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for COVID 19. Trump is an avid antimasker, and the loudest in the room as it pertains to not wearing a mask. It is just about possible that the powers that be, have targeted him to make an example out of him for not wearing a mask, either that, or he's playing along with the agenda, faking like he has COVID 19, to suit their agenda, as well as his own agenda to garner undeserved sympathy and attention, and to leverage himself into an unearned election victory. Whether he's faking his diagnosis, or they infected him against his knowledge and consent, the goal is to strike fear into the hearts of other, less vocal antimaskers to get us to comply with their agenda.

Obviously, the mask isn't about preventing the spread of COVID if restaurant staff are demanding that we enter with a mask, but then we can remove the mask to dine, indoors of all places. Or that we don't remove the mask upon entering, even after they scan our wrist, and it shows that we're not running a fever. What was the point of forcing people to enter with a mask even to begin with if we're just going to remove it to eat anyway? The whole damn thing is totally asinine, but that should tell you that the mask mandate is more about control, than it is about preventing the spread of COVID. How much longer are we as a society going to pretend that this thing is real, even to begin with, just to appease the establishment?

The "plandemic" could've been better handled. They could've quarantined only those who test positive without shutting down the economy, and artificially inducing a recession in the middle of an election year. Other countries around the world have handled the pandemic much better than we have, and have almost returned to normal, but the greed and narcissism of American capitalism would see essential workers out here bussing they ass, holding it down without hazard pay, non essentials home on furlough without extensions in unemployment payments, app based delivery companies exploiting people in need, and won't even pay them a liveable wage that they need to repair the very cars they need to work, for which repair needs are more common when you're burning more miles a day on deliveries (Vote no on Prop 22), and lenders won't even freeze your credit until this whole thing blows over.

I'm not saying cancel your credit, I'm simply saying freeze the blasted thing so people who have been working hard to build good credit over the years don't end up ruining their credit through no fault of their own. Why the fuck have we been banned in over 30 countries around the world? America is a joke, and you wonder why no one takes us seriously. That's why no one wants to wear a mask and pretend like the Coronavirus is real. For those of you who are not a bunch of mindless automatons, who can actually think for yourselves, here are some things you can do to safeguard yourselves from catching whatever is out there.

1. Social distancing makes absolute, prefect sense, so do exactly that. If you're against wearing a mask, don't attend social events that are packed to capacity, and has you shoulder to shoulder with your fellow patrons. One on one encounters should be done maintaining an arm length of personal space, something that we were supposed to be doing during peacetime regardless, and as a mark of respect for our fellow man.

2. Dine outdoors, not indoors, and leave an empty row to allow for social distancing. You should only patronize a restaurant that offers outdoor dining, which makes more sense than shutting down the dining areas of restaurants all together.

3. Use the drive thru instead of going inside the actual building. If they don't have a drive thru, that's their bad, they just lost a customer.

4. Only patronize restaurants with an open kitchen policy where you can actually see how your food is being handled back there, and they won’t have the luxury of doing what they will to customer’s meals, free of scrutiny.

5. Get groceries and cook your own food at home more often, rather than constantly eating out, and eating at the mercy of someone with malicious intent. The more often you eat at someone else’s mercy is the more likely you are to consume food that’s been compromised.

6. Have your groceries delivered, and have the delivery driver leave the grocery bags on your doorstep as part of contactless delivery.

7. Practice sanitary mindfulness:

(a) Wash bottles and cans before putting them in your cupboard, or refrigerator.

(b) Leave meat and produce to soak in a large container before rinsing, draining and refrigerating.

(c) Change the culture of eating the same cake that someone done blew their breath over trying to blow out a candle. If you want to blow out a candle that bad, the candle doesn't have to be on a cake, it can be in a candleholder, or on your own serving of cake. You also have the right to refuse to eat cake that's offered to you after someone else done blew on it. I don't care who's party it is, leave if you're not happy. This is something we should've been practicing during peacetime, anyways. Why were we ever ok with that?

(d) Regularly open the windows of your house to let those rooms air out. Regularly crack the window of your car, and drive down the freeway at 80 miles an hour to let your car air out.

(e) Regularly wipe down the dashboard, steering wheel, door handles, windshield, side windows, cup holders, and any other surface within the cabin of a vehicle that I may have missed.

(f) Regularly wipe down the surfaces in your kitchen, especially after handling raw poultry. I can’t believe people would cut up vegetables on the same cutting board that they used to cut up raw chicken. Then use a wet towel to wipe down the cutting board thinking it’s enough, yet they wonder why their tripe is subsequently turned inside out as a result of there being a cross contamination of salmonella between the meat and produce.

(g) Household chores should be carried out in the descending order of dirt levels from cleanest to dirtiest. It makes no sense to clean the bathroom before cooking. It makes no sense you fold fresh laundry, or make your bed with the same hand you just used to take out the trash. Why not cook first, then do laundry, then mop, then clean the bathroom, then finally take out the trash before taking that long awaited shower and getting into bed? The same principles can be applied to food prepping. Why not leave the meat for last and prep the fruits and vegetables first. Not only does it prevent cross contamination, but it also avoids the kind of chaos and confusion that would cause the cross contamination in the first place. A little organizational skill never hurt nobody.

(h) Both parties should shower and brush their teeth before kissing and having sex, even if she’s your true and lawful wife, but especially if she’s community property, because after all, you don’t know where she’s been, or with whom, and you can’t swear for people nowadays, not even a steady partner. Taking a shower before sex only solves the issue of external hygiene. Internal hygiene can be solved by going steady with one partner, or by using a condom when having sex with strangers, or multiple partners to prevent the spread of STDs.

(i) Take out biodegradable waste on the day it’s produced, or freeze it in an old food container until you’re ready to take it out, but no matter what you do, do not throw it in the trash can you keep in your kitchen. This will aid in preventing an infestation of pest, and the spread of diseases.

(j) Finally, cover your coughs and sneezes. This is something we learn from as far back as kindergarten. The people who coughs out in the open are the very reason that we’re now being forced to wear masks, and ironically, they’re the same ones trying to scapegoat the antimaskers, by saying it’s our fault, so they can come out looking like the heroes while being absolved of any responsibility to change who they are, and start acting right. These are some of the same people who work in restaurants who I told you, you need to watch out for, who will neglect sanitary mindfulness, and deliberately put things in your food, but now all of a sudden, the antimaskers are the worst things ever, yet ironically, some of us antimaskers are actual germaphobes, we’re just not stupid, that’s all.

Simply wearing a mask is not enough if it’s not backed by acts of sanitary mindfulness. Placing an emphasis on wearing a mask, and trying to force others to feel responsible for your health and peace of mind is nothing more than manipulation and gaslighting, and a lazy way of escaping the responsibility of being a clean person. You can wear 100 million masks all at once, if you’re stupid and nasty, you’ll catch whatever virus that happens to be in the air at that time, but if you’re a clean person, and you choose not to wear a mask for whatever reason, I think you’ll most likely be ok.

All of the suggestions I’ve outlined in this article are things we should be doing in general, Coronavirus, or not. Not only are they keeping with the practice of sanitary mindfulness to prevent the spread of germs, but they’re also regarded as a mark of respect for your fellow citizen by demonstrating good social gesture and a willingness to comfortably coexist within the community. Why did it take an antimasker to teach you how to be sanitary?

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Frank and Upfront

Online column written by Mr. Franklin discussing a range of social issues plaguing our society. I also host a weekly podcast on anchor.