Would I do anything to send me children back to school and meet my friends? No. Sending them home has been the best thing happening for most of the parents I know — as they have realized how frail and useless the educational system is. How the assignments are pointless, how the school is unable to cope with change and adapt. How the education is not fit for the 21st century. Many choose now homeschooling and rethinking how they approach education for their children. Being home made us look at the routines we have and the work we do. And made us develop healthier routines. Being home made us realize that the economy doesn’t work. That the reactions are tragic and desperate. Making a mask won’t help changing that.

Making a mask seems like the typical consumer response to a tragedy. I’ve already seen fashion masks on the market with rhinestones. This is for me just another type. Let’s not consume. Let’s actually take this opportunity to rethink how our system can be more healthy. How can we have a better school system. A better financial system. A better connection with nature. With people. With resources that are in abundance, yet used wisely. Ofcourse health workers need masks. It’s insane they don’t have any. But let’s not use tragedy to make more stuff. Let’s stop. Think. And act wholeheartedly from what makes sense. A future with obligatory masks is not a future I want to be part of.