{"id":49064,"date":"2022-11-23T21:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49064"},"modified":"2022-11-23T21:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:09:50","slug":"h-mart-is-where-people-act-like-the-pandemic-never-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49064","title":{"rendered":"H-Mart* is where people act like the pandemic never ended"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The other day, I took my au pair to H-Mart.\u00a0 She could see what an Asian market was like, we could take the girls out of the house to stave off their boredom, and I could introduce her to some of the more unique foods in the food court.\u00a0 Plus, ever since I discovered Bibigo\u2019s ez-Korean stews, I wanted to get some more to stash for a rainy day where I\u2019m jonesing for some Korean stew.<\/span><\/p>\n

We get there, and while we\u2019re walking into the store, I couldn\u2019t help but notice that the majority of the customers headed inside, were all masked up.\u00a0 This was confusing to me, because usually when I\u2019m out and about, I\u2019m usually the only one who still wears a mask in public places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s finally gotten cold in Georgia, which means it\u2019s the usual cold and flu season on top of the fact that COVID is still all over the fucking place, but that\u2019s never really stopped anyone from arrogantly going into Publix or Target without a mask on these days.\u00a0 The news can literally mention a new variant or a spike in infections, and people still parade around like it\u2019s 2019 again.\u00a0 White people, black people, men and women, young and especially old people, just can\u2019t be bothered to mask up anymore these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside H-Mart, it looked like it was March of 2020 again, with everyone masked up, except there were way more people packed into the store, which was a colossal pain in the ass considering I had a shopping cart and a double stroller for the girls.\u00a0 But make no mistake, the vast majority of shoppers in the store were masked up, and it wasn\u2019t lost on me the ones that were rocking the heavy duty KN95s instead of more casual cloth or surgical masks.<\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long to consider what the outlier was, which was the fact that we were at an Asian<\/em> grocery store.\u00a0 Sure, forget that H-Mart corporate is based out of New Jersey, and most of the produce they procure is from the same suppliers as most commercial grocery chains in America.\u00a0 The narrative now begins to feel like the fact that it\u2019s an Asian business with a bunch of chinks and gooks all over the place means that China Virus is clearly wafting around in the air, and all the non-Asian folk will be damned<\/em> if they are going to risk getting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, they could just, not shop at H-Mart, but I suppose their low-priced produce and Korean fried chicken are far too tantalizing to resist, and for these people, it\u2019s worth risking their lives and looking like passive racists.<\/span><\/p>\n

But hey, if you\u2019re exasperated with people arrogantly not masking up, start going to H-Mart to shop for your groceries instead of Publix or Kroger.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not Asian you\u2019ll look like a racist, but at least you can shop somewhere where most everyone is finally being careful for a change.<\/span><\/p>\n

*and presumably any other Asian-run business that non-Asian people like to patronize<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I took my au pair to H-Mart.\u00a0 She could see what an Asian market was like, we could take the girls out of the house to stave off their boredom, and I could introduce her to some of the more unique foods in the food court.\u00a0 Plus, ever since I discovered Bibigo\u2019s … Continue reading H-Mart* is where people act like the pandemic never ended<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,194,56,103,83,190],"class_list":["post-49064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-coronavirus","tag-food","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49066,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49064\/revisions\/49066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}