Instead of a simple answer, I will keep to the theme of 2020 and give you a long and rambling one that I think illustrates my point perfectly.
As we all know, we have been suffering from a pandemic of sorts. Said pandemic is highly infectious among humans, and I, of course, run a humanoid containment site (that’s a fancy word for “people with anomalous abilities but for legal reasons we can’t call them “human” in the paperwork). Now, as soon as the news began to spread, I decided to take some action, because this shit never ends well and I’ve done enough research on pathogens and diseases and all that lovely stuff to know how this goes down.
I lock down my site. I mean nobody enters, nobody leaves. If you were here when the lockdown happened, tough titties. We are in quarantine, baby! We’re acting like 008 just leaked from the lab! Get comfortable! As well as this, I ordered strict social distancing measures, because it was several days before I was able to get hold of tests. Thankfully the site is quite spacious and many people could work from their quarters or personal offices, so work wasn’t overly interrupted. Well, we were lucky, because I tested every damn person on the site and we were virus-free. Brilliant! People who were desperately needed elsewhere were able to travel; still a no on people coming in. We are, and have remained, virus-free.
Well, the Powers That Be conferred, and decided that face masks were mandatory on every site. These face masks are simply not convenient for many of the people in my care, and for people like site security they’re just inconvenient. Plus, we’re virus-free. There is not a single trace of the virus on my site and there won’t be, because we are not letting anyone or anything in. I say all this in a surprisingly politely worded email (I had the suspicious I may have to get less polite later) and hope to the lord above that someone in this organization will have sense. My prayers went unanswered.
I get a very terse email telling me that it. is. mandatory! My pleas fall on deaf ears, as do my curses. I try and put it off for as long as possible, feigning supply shortages (not exactly a lie -- I did not order any face masks) and then making up whatever excuse came into my head, and I suppose they finally had enough because they sent us a huge crate full of face masks. As per the protocol I had the good sense to enforce when I saw the writing on the wall, the crate was quarantined in the cargo hold for a week (aka we ignored it and nobody even went near it), because I like to be careful (the virus dies on most surfaces within days).
When it was safe, we tested it to see if it had been exposed.
The crate had been infected.
And that is how 2020 has been going.
