Will Life Revert to a Maskless Society?

After a year of community quarantines and pandemic I terribly miss the good old days when I just wore my natural face in public, and that was it. Not even a makeup or foundation needed, even though I don't really look that good with my natural. But at least I could freely breathe air and talk and be clearly heard when mask-free.

Will life revert to masklessness? The urban dictionary says masklessness refers to "reckless macho (machismo) in public" when one defies the norm or rule to wear face mask in public. Today it's reckless but come one day when this pandemic is over, it will be a welcome sight again. But will that day ever come? I think so. I want it to. But it also may not.

All the pandemics in world history stopped eventually. What makes us think this won't? It will, if the virus is forced into a deadlock, if it is deprived of transmission, like in herd immunization. Speaking of which, some folks (not all) who refuse vaccination think they've outsmart the rest of us because we  allowed the virus inside our bodies and they didn't. And look at them, they've never contracted Covid ever since. 

But truth is, without the majority of us taking the jab, herd immunity with lessened death incidence wouldn't be possible at all. So we, the vaccinated, saved them. Of course, it's by God's grace and mercy.

But this still depends on how disciplined we are to take all health protocols seriously to the letter, and I'm talking worldwide. In spite of the vaccines, the virus won't stop until we finally take the health precautions seriously. 

Remember, the virus can mutate. 

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And if we remain lacking in discipline and just relying on the vaccines, total and safe masklessness may never happen again. All of us may even have to wear PPE as a public new-norm outfit. Imagine that hassle. How can I enjoy my Botejyu Ramen noodles in PPE overalls and head gear? At least face masks and shields are easier to take off.

Actually, we have other things to worry about. Looking at the broader picture--will things in general get any better? I mean, the fragile situation in the Middle East (specifically the growing conflict between Israel and Iran (which has the potential of escalating into a nuclear confrontation), China's arbitrary claims in the West Philippine Sea (which equally has a nuclear likelihood), world inflation, worsening natural calamities, climate change, hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, illegal drugs, human trafficking, terrorism, depression and suicides, etc.

It's easy to decide things are going to get better in the future. To remain positive. Being realistic is becoming more unrealistic and impractical today because it invites the ire of those who deem it a negative thing and who love mongering doomsday scenarios. But that's realistic--seeing both the positive and negative sides of things, the good and the bad news. Imagine if all your doctor tells you is the good news just to keep you from feeling negative about your true condition.

The prophetic books in the bible paint even drearier scenarios, at least as far as what this world is coming to in these last days. Nothing will get better. In the words of Jesus Christ, one passage summarizes it:

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again...Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold..

In another passage, Jesus warns:

There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. 

 Then Peter adds:

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.

So, with a broader picture of things to come, will life ever revert to masklessness?  Possibly yes. But the dreary scenarios prophesied by Jesus will stay. They will surely come to pass. What he says is always final. I remember some guys on the Net commenting how they really believe in these prophecies, especially of the evil world ruler to come, the Anti-Christ. So they conclude that someone must kill the Anti-Christ before he rules and wreaks havoc 😝. 

And then we can all live happily ever after.

But that's not the case. God has predestined (decided beforehand with finality) that the Anti-Christ will not die any other way but to be thrown with the False Prophet and Satan into the Lake of Fire. No bullet or even nuclear warhead can harm him.

Well, relax and get ready to take off your face masks and shields for good one day soon. Who knows, God may take pity on us all and lift the pandemic once and for all. He may cause Covid to just suddenly go away and never come back, or command it to scram and go to Mars or into the Bottomless Pit. Anything can happen with God. He may even enable us to recover all that we lost in the pandemic as he deletes the virus completely. 

Or he may not.