I Didn't Wear the Mask
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I didn't wear the mask. Ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, thanks for coming today to attend the funeral for my late wife and two children. They died last week because of COVID. Today, I have a confession to make to all of you. I should have worn the mask, and if I had, perhaps my wife and children would be alive today.

But, I didn't wear the mask and that made all the difference in the world. If I had back when COVID was spreading everywhere, perhaps others might have as well including my wife and my children. But, alas, I listened to the clowns on FOX TV, thought that wearing a mask was somehow unpatriotic, part of the radical left attempts to keep the economy shut down for nefarious reasons, part of the deep state conspiracy that Q and Trump were warning us all about.

The more insane the media became about masks whether to wear them or not, the madder I became, as I drank deeply of the right-wing cool aide, and became an anti-mask zealot, screaming at people who wore masks in public. On more than one occasion I following Tucker's advice called CPS on parents who had their children wearing masks in public for suspected child abuse.

At home, I continued to refuse to allow anyone near me to wear a mask. When my company required us to wear a mask or be fired, I gladly took it. I cosnidered early retirement as a badge of honor I considered myself a freedom fighter, and talked about it on Twitter, Facebook, Gab and everywhere I could find urging people to stand up, and refuse to wear the mask, and refuse to take the satanic virus designed by the evil Bill Gates to track us all - referencing the number of the beast.

Then one day, my wife started coughing as did my two teenage children. We all denied it could be COVID which we all knew was a left-wing hoax or a Chinese bioweapon and we were careful to avoid contact with any Chinese-looking person.

My wife and children got so sick we had to risk going to the ER and joined hundreds of people flooding into the local ER in our town in rural South Dakota. The doctors told me that my wife and children and I all had COVID, and the prognosis was not good.

We went to church to meditate on what we should do and talked to the pastor, still unmasked about our situation. He told us to pray, and God would answer our prayers. The pastor came down with COVID and has sadly passed on as well as did ten of the members of the church, all of whom I infected because I didn't wear the mask.

Well, in the end, my pastor, ten members of my church, and most importantly, my wife died, my two children died, and I almost died. The moral of the story is simply this:

I should have gotten the vaccine, and the booster shot and encouraged everyone around us to do the same. But the most important thing is I should have worn the damn mask. That's all I have to say. Thanks for coming. I appreciate it. May God bless you all."