I've been saying since the beginning that Covid divides. I believe that it's dividing on new fronts as well as deeping established divisions.

There's a new warm and fuzzy slogan out now. "Heroes Work Here". I'm sorry, but when I drive through Dunkin Donuts and see that sign, I hang my head in shame for America.

If they are heroes, then we're all heroes and heroes are also out of work.

I think this falls under the umbrella of "everybody gets a trophy". It's soft and perpetuates soft thinking.

I think we are going to see already strong people get stronger and naturally weak people become completely pathetic.

Maybe it's just me, but it's just becoming ridiculous.

Kinda like receiving a (written) message from a

Hee hee,

I must first mention that I have no incoming first hand news source. I know little to nothing about what is going on out in the world. My observations are a daily count of the cars around me as I go to my work(s). I do hear people making comments and from those comments I pick up on some details.

It will be good fun seeing more people adapt to being tougher.

I would not call the DD people heroes. Krispy Kreme, well yes of coarse.

And whoever spins the shakes at Chicfila, well there is a special place in Heaven for those saints.

Time to make the donuts!

I think those people ARE heroes-as are all the medical people who go to work everyday in the midst of the illness.

I sure as heck wouldn't want to go to work amidst the general public these days. Too scary and tiring. Wearing those masks for any length of time is BRUTAL. I have a physician friend who works at a VA hospital who said she wears an N-95 mask ALL DAY LONG. I don't see how she does it.

Let's see-sit home (safe) and collect unemployment or go out, wear a mask everyday, deal with the crabby public and collect the same amount of money (or less). Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Bless your heart, NE-you MUST be right!

Oh you softies. I was making donuts and opening the neighborhood donut shop when I was 11 and coffee was a dime. The cops and geezers would be lined up by 5 am. I was tgeir hero! :)

Cause the lady who owned the shop didn't want to get up at 3:30 am on weekends. And she paid me a whopping .35 cents an hour! LOL

I agree that the label "Hero" has been way over-used, for a long time.

I always cringe when I see or hear it used to reference a deceased loved one, an athlete, anybody who just does the right thing and acts ethically, etc.

Save it for battle-wounded military, and firefighters who ran into a collapsing building and saved someone. I would even withhold it from the "everyday" firefighter / police / military who suit up every day but haven't been tested.

Don't get me wrong - I Respect them - a lot. But when "HERO" is used too much it is cheapened.

That's a good comparison to the everybody-gets-a-trophy generation. So many in our society today have never been expected to be responsible & work hard. It really is a concern (I believe) for the general well-being our entire society.

Yeah, I too am getting over the "hero" trend.

And I am about to ditch my mask as well. Except when at work as it is mandatory for me.

I would be willing to bet most of the population has been exposed to it by now.

I agree that people in this society are getting way too entitled (even before this pandemic, I witnessed people verbal assaulting, even throwing things, at store and food workers. I don't understand why those people feel entitled to assault workers. And yes, I sometimes stood up for the worker. Public shaming works wonders.)

And people who take on the responsibility of risking their lives for others are heroic. On the other hand, as I (who have fire fighters who are close and beloved relatives) said once regarding 1st responders "if you don't like the terms and conditions of the job - don't take the job".

But store workers didn't take a job by which risking their lives for others is part. And no one can readily get another job now unless it's on the front lines, in the line of fire.

I see it's turned into yet another "who's right about COVID19" debate again.

Going out to mow the lawn at the house where I have been attacked by swarm of wasps two of the six years I’ve owned this bugger. Fortunately tenants haven’t gotten attacked. But good golly, I want these wasps gone! The nest looked torn up this spring so maybe a skunk got them over winter. Here’s hoping.

Also got mugged at this unit once. That were no darn fun either.

I’m no hero, nor are the workers at the Taco Bell, McD’s or Panera, but I thank them heartily. And tell them I appreciate them giving me a break, and a smile.

Smokowna and DJ get a thumbs up. Now I want a lemon shake.....

Busy, Why not use mace?

hero? I was in the service from 68 to 72. I did boot camp in great lakes- school in TN-- stationed in Norfolk for 3 years and 1 year at Virginia Beach (dam neck) For me when they say all the veterans stand up-- I just can't. I sat on my butt working on airplanes and sacrificed nothing. Got an education and learned how to put on a gas mask shoot a rifle while others died in Vietnam/Laos and Cambodia. When I hear veterans please stand up-- I can only clap for those who really served.

Every boss wants their employees to do more and better-- the hero sign is-- not my cup of tea. HARD WORKERS sounds good to me. Calling them hero's standing behind a plexiglass barrier and N95 mask on-- dilutes all the REAL HERO's. I like to be careful and know who the real heroes are.

I've worked every day with my guys-- EVERY DAY-- we've masked up (snorkled up) and gloved up and were very careful with customers and with individual employees.

Everyone who shows up to work is a hero? if you say that then what do you say to those who are risking -- truly risking themselves to save others-- you've taken their thunder.

6X6, used wasp stay on the buggers like crazy the first time. No signs of the little dears for , oh, two-three years. Last August, I mowed over them, on the other side of the yard. So, either they had moved, or it was entirely new nest.

From now on, all of my yards are going to get wasp traps, baited with ‘sweet and meat’ starting about July, so I can check the traps see if any activity. After getting bitten last August, I put those wasp traps at every house. Each house got a few, but that yard had the most.

My husband has fun helping to spray the beasts. Last year, after I mowed over them, ( didn’t see them at all) and I got bit, I abandoned the mower and fled to my truck, mower still running. So, called hubby , said to needed him pronto. I stayed in the truck, watching for reactions, trying to remain calm. He shut off mower, then merrily sprayed and sprayed, and sprayed. And kept spraying. He was having fun. I finally got his attention and said, umm...think I need to go get in a cold bathtub now..... and since our house is close to a hospital,that wouldn’t be a bad idea to be home, just in case. 24 bites. Very glad I’m not allergic.....

When everyone is a hero, no one is.

Heroes are, by definition, extraordinary. Everyone today is dealing with the fallout of coronavirus. Single moms who work 2 jobs and now have kids to home school. Police men who walk into a domestic violence situation not knowing if the house is infected or not. The garbage man who picks up trash at 1,000 houses. Everyone's got a point of impact; everyone has risks; everyone is dealing with those factors.

Anyway, I'm not here to argue, but I agree there are no heroes simply for dealing with the daily hassles of the coronavirus, just like there are no heroes in the everyday semi-dangerous tasks that are part of the work-a-day world.

Driving in LA traffic could be considered heroic by some standard, I suppose.

These days, I see the American flag flying half staff almost constantly, and I wonder "Who died?" Used to be when the flag flew half staff...you KNEW and probably everyone else did too.

That which we gain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. 3 months after the virus is over, the "heroes" will be forgotten.

When he was 11, my Boy Scout water rescue trained brother swam out to a drowning, drunken, 250 lb. neighbor who lived next to us on the river. Brother didn't tell anyone - the neighbor did when he brought over a thank you gift. My brother was a hero.

My mom was in early at her law secretary job when she and a co-worker saw a mentally ill client threaten a lawyer with a gun outside the window in the parking lot. The other employee ran into an office and locked the door. Mom called the police and stood at the window giving the license number and car description, then told them an ambulance was needed, as the lawyer was just then shot (he survived). She was out in the lot before the client had gotten back in the car and driven off. My mom was a hero.

My dad volunteered for WWII when he was too young to draft, under a special program for the Navy in 1943, which was desperate for more sailors. He was usually in areas where the US had only just gotten control, and in danger from unexploded mines and hidden caches of ordinance in and near harbors. My dad was a hero.

Dunkin employees? I applaud the work ethic, but there is a large difference here.

People are working in those places where they can more easily be infected because they want to support their families. To me, that is heroic. I think the woman who rang up my groceries this morning is a strong person. She has to keep working to pay her part of a house she lives in with her nephew and her nephew's girlfriend. It's the girlfriend's house. This nice little cashier does not drive. I don't know the rest of her story and I am sure she is over sixty. I don't know how she ended up in this very iffy rental from a nephew's girlfriend. She's a grumpy, complaining little soul and she told me today that the manager is tired of her complaining.

Call them what ever you want.......as long as I get a Boston Cream saved for me.

The one that bothers me is GOAT everyone is the greatest.