All the shops were shuttered, hallways vacant, escalators were moving and only a smattering of people were seen, mostly keeping to themselves. This was my experience recently, doing my first venture back into the travel world and navigating a few airports. What has been bustling, busy, focused and populated now feels vacant, eerie and empty. It didn’t help that I saw someone on one of my planes in a full-blown hazmat suit, complete with safety goggles, booties for her shoes, gloves and duct tape around her ankles and wrists. Clearly, she preferred not to chat with me. I suspect she has a medical condition and was flying at great personal risk, so I prayed for her.

How do you feel about wearing face masks? Do you want everyone to wear them to minimize the possible exposure risk to COVID? Do you resent someone telling you to cover half of your face and deal with struggling to breathe through a mask? Does it tick you off that you wear a mask and other people in the grocery store don’t? Or do you think that people who wear masks are over-reacting? How about the racial stuff that’s overtaken the news headlines in the last few weeks? Are you angry that white people are insensitive and entitled? Are you upset that minorities are speaking out about injustices in police systems or judicial experiences?