The list is getting longer, the one with do's and don'ts, mainly don'ts the restrictions but the longer the list the more people ignore them. I can't say I care about it. If it comes to adults they should be responsible for their deeds. We all learned to read and write, most of us surf the internet and if that's the case you can find the info you are looking for. You can if you like to know the truth, if you search further if you ask around if you try to be objective if you do not let yourself be lead by fear, empty promises and the idea everything is done for your good, done to go back to normal.
If it comes to normal... Normal is what you are raised with but the older you get the more changes are made. Without noticing it new do's and don'ts are born. The disrespect for elderly people for example, just like locking them up in elderly homes, raping 80+ years old women and beating up the elderly. The rules about adoption are changed, those about abortion change every few years and so do those about healthcare. Health insurance is a do and if you make a don't out of it you end up in jail. Loving your country became a don't and makes those who do and turned those who died during the world wars from a hero into traitors. Suddenly a country's history is a don't and teachers teach the opposite of what we have been taught. Needing a psychiatrist was a big don't,l which turned into a do and is a don't again.
Playing outside was a do, so was shopping and pay the bill later and visiting friends, shaking hands and giving a hug. Today these are all don'ts no matter if it affects. Those against intimacy are happy with it. They are no longer the outcast but the wise, hygienic ones. The time of kissing one three times is over and a handshake is a history too.
All those don'ts are today's do's. It doesn't matter if you like it. You can always leave or take the risk to be seen as the new enemy of the state.
A lot of what we became used to are today's don'ts. Like paying cash and personal finances infect them too. A visit to the vet will be, eating meat is, fruit, vegetables became don'ts and so is healthcare. The dentist, operations needed, a visit to the doctor's office became don'ts. The do is visiting a drugstore, exchanging meds with family and friends or... leave it the way it is.
Too many don'ts are killing. You need to be very flexible to be able to turn with the wind, you need a lot of money to turn a don't into a do... A person needs air. Those who remember the old days will die soon enough, the young ones and the generation after them will not know better. They will be what we ones called anti-social. They won't get close, never shake a hand, not play outside but be the vegetables living inside. Facing the world through the window and only travel by the internet.
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