Today, I went to the clinic escort for the second time after our activities were resumed.
Look at our cool new masks!
Now, we do not throw our vests back to the common pile; we take our vests home and bring them back for the next shift. I like it, because now I always have my XS size, and do not need to search for it in the bag! We can’t share food anymore, and we can’t take food from our supporters, but that’s OK.
Since we are in the Pride Week (although events are canceled), there were people in the Pride gear biking on the streets, and they were cheering us. Also, there was one funny episode. A couple passed by, looking attentively at us, antis, the doors of the clinic, and the folding sign, which is explaining the bubble zone. And then the man said: I get it now! You are the good guys! We cheered: you got it right!
Most of the antis do not wear masks. Our shift leader asked the lady in the middle: I heard you said that your mother has cancer, and you are visiting her. Yet, you do not wear a mask… For which she replied: Oh, she does not wear a mask either!
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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Some still believe masks are a myth – I still don’t know how to feel about it so I just wear it anyway. Maybe more people would wear masks if they all had the PRIDE rainbow on them 😉 love it!
There are a lot of Pride masks around, but that one is of escort colors – it matches the vests which escorts wear; colors may vary between different clinics. ut antis are unlikely to be excited by the rainbow colors :). In Illinois, we wear masks in public by the governor’s order, inside always, and outside when you can’t keep a six feet distance. As you can see in that picture, the lady is saying pretty close to the rest of the group.
P.S. I just realize that you might not be familiar with the whole situation. Do you know about the clinic escorts and what we do?
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Some still believe masks are a myth – I still don’t know how to feel about it so I just wear it anyway. Maybe more people would wear masks if they all had the PRIDE rainbow on them 😉 love it!
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There are a lot of Pride masks around, but that one is of escort colors – it matches the vests which escorts wear; colors may vary between different clinics. ut antis are unlikely to be excited by the rainbow colors :). In Illinois, we wear masks in public by the governor’s order, inside always, and outside when you can’t keep a six feet distance. As you can see in that picture, the lady is saying pretty close to the rest of the group.
P.S. I just realize that you might not be familiar with the whole situation. Do you know about the clinic escorts and what we do?
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