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Weird during the lockdown or at the Hawkhurst fete? The weirdest thing I heard about was Dagen McDowell admitting that she “screamed a man out of the local grocery store for not wearing a mask.” I think this happened in her little fiefdom of Brookneal, VA where she can get away with such elitist nonsense.

Edward II. Wasn’t he the one how suffered the… unfortunate… demise?

@Poker Face — Is there any such thing as a fortunate demise?

Brittanica sez Ed II was deposed (by his wife and her lover, doncha know) and imprisoned, and the standard account is that he died in prison in 1327, probably by violence. However, some modern historians say his death was staged and he survived until 1330. I find myself with very little reason for caring, though.

And got his ass kicked at Bannockburn.

Where Mel Gibson did not paint himself blue and shout “Freedom!”, in English, during a Nea Trews exhibit at a local Bannockburn fete.

In real history the Abbotts of Battle go all the way back to Billy The Conquerer and Battle Abbey was founded on the very spot where Harold was slain in 1066, but it’s elevenish miles up the road on the A21 from (the) Battle and the Abbey thereof.

Damn there’s a lot of (real) history there.

@Uncle Al, I believe that’s an oblique reference to the methodology involved in his demise…I think I’d prefer the encounter with a headsman over the “other endsman” that he’s rumored to have encountered. But I bet you knew that.

“Pretty weird” is a sliding scale I guess, just the masking bit was outrageous to me, and remember the little footprints 6′ back and Plexiglas sneeze guards everywhere? Good times.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I haven’t seen anyone masking for quite some time. We had some hangers on there for a couple of years, but I can’t remember the last time I saw some poor soul wearing the face diaper in public.

You?

There are still Branch Covidians all over the metroplex.

Wandering around with their masks under their noses.

And there are still signs on elevators saying only 2 people can ride at a time on them, and little six foot markers all over the place.

And still people wandering in open spaces, or in their cars, with masks on.

They probably vote too.

I just arrived at my summer sanctum in northern Michigan and was entertained by a 50-something female, jogging, on a very remote and beautiful trail at 7am with a M95 mask securely strapped across her maw…I coughed as loud as I could as we passed…..

These people live their lives in fear, and it makes them happy. If it wasn’t Wuhan Bat Flu it would be something else, aliens, Donald Trump, Nuclear War, no avocados at the corner store.

Edward II didn’t kill himself.

We still see occasional masks here. Not many, but a few. In Waitrose, for example. It was very much a white middle class thing, wasn’t it?

I was told I had to wear one for my fingerprint appointment in Maidstone. I took one with me, just in case, but it wasn’t really required.

Edward II died at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire in 1327. We don’t know if accounts of his mode of death are true but the present-day gardeners at the castle have a sense of humour. They have planted out a large bed of Red Hot Pokers

@Carl — Red Hot Pokers LOL! I do love a macabre sense of humor!

I live in an area (Sarasota County FL) over-respresented by old people, some are VERY old. Many of them are by any reasonable measure quite ugly. I still run across masked people and I’m glad.