Out of the frying pan and into the fire

Homemade jelly donuts by Willow

This is the Willow's first attempt to create anything using yeast.  But, as she said, that's if you don't include the bio lab where they killed the yeast because they forgot to add the sugar.

No absence of sugar in these delicious creations.  We each ate three before they had even completely cooled  Slightly crispy on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, filled with organic raspberry jelly-with a few blueberry since she used most of the jar of raspberry. 

They were the best jelly donuts I had ever eaten.  They were so good, I felt compelled to take two to my older widowed neighbor.  Mask in place, I knocked on her screen door and proudly handed over the little brown bag.

"Would you like some eggs?" she asked? "Come in, come in."

I stepped in while she was collecting well over a dozen homegrown eggs, and after she handed them to me she started telling me about her Gdaughter who was working at the local convenience store.

"I went to pick her up and she came out without her mask.  She said that it was so tight it gave her a headache, and that NONE of the customers who had come into the store that day had been wearing masks."

(our state has told us to wear masks if we go out or work in public)

I thanked her for the eggs and beat a rather hasty retreat.

I don't suppose any of those customers thought about possibly exposing her Gdaughter, who could then expose her elderly Gmother, who could then expose the neighbor dropping off a couple of freshly made donuts.

If just one customer at that store had been shedding COVID-19, the amount of people potentially exposed is exponentially astronomical, even here in rural Maine.  That person might have felt the whole thing is a Demohoax, or that they didn't need to worry because they are fit and forty.

While they might not be concerned about infecting others and only worried about themselves and their families, evidence is coming to light that COVID does not just kill by respiratory failure.  The virus potentially affects clotting factors in the blood, and can lead to sudden death from heart attack or stroke.

Children in NY are exhibiting unusual inflammatory responses when infected, showing heart issues as well as a skin condition that resembles Kawasaki disease.

So people, if you are being told to wear a face covering, just do it. We all want to live another day to eat donuts.