Passive Resistance

Both Target® (Ala Moana Center) and Walmart® (downtown) “jumped the gun” and invoked the face mask mandate on Saturday. At first, admission to Walmart® was refused, but a sympathetic “team member” allowed entry. Inside, the staff appeared to be edgy and distant, which was unnerving. Target® admission, on the other hand, was flatly denied.

Longs® (Ala Moana Center) allowed admission since it was not enforcing the face mask mandate until Monday, the “official” day. The employees were fairly cordial as they usually are. So, the preferential shopping venue was established.

The decision to mummify coffee time in town has been finalized. Purchasing coffee at the fast joint has always been satisfactory. However, the environment in town is now extremely abhorrent. Just standing for a few minutes to sip the coffee is either interrupted by someone begging for money or by a “security” guard citing the prohibition of loitering.

Taking the coffee to Ala Moana Center is no different. The only place to drink the coffee is at the bus stops, all of which are now the permanent residences of a number of homeless. Walking around the mall for an extended period of time is also prohibited. The motto of Ala Moana Center is, “Spend your money, then beat it!” The “security” guards actually don’t seem to care, but a young haole punk who appears to be the “police chief,” is patrolling the mall for violators.

Given the totalitarian nature of the current Fascist police state, the following is now in effect:

1. Coffee time will be now be held in the mausoleum at the “old folks home” in Waikiki with the Nescafé® instant coffee supply procured at Longs®. There is a 3.5 month supply, if only one cup is dispensed daily. After the supply is depleted, coffee time may be mummified.
2. The current plan, because of the face mask debacle, is to limit bus rides to one round-trip in the late afternoon to Ala Moana Center to purchase dinner at Subway® and, if necessary, to shop for non-perishable food at Target® or Longs®. The deployment of the N95 face mask will only occur then. Avoiding the use of the face mask is imperative as a matter of principle.
3. There is no way to determine where dinner will be procured other than Subway® once the Fascist “new normal” kicks in. Panda Express® has been sorely missed. Dining may be permanently relegated to the mausoleum given the indefinite duration of “lockdown.”
4. Showers may also become a permanent feature of the mausoleum as the gym may end up shuttering if “lockdown” is indefinite. The return to any semblance of a workout remains in extreme flux.
5. There most likely will be no return to the surrogate “living room” in the International Marketplace, even if it reopens. “Social distancing” would not allow for sitting in any part of the mall anyway.
6. Haircuts will be implemented with the Wahl® hair clippers indefinitely. The Institute of Hair Design may not reopen after “lockdown,” whenever that may be. If anything, the Fascists have enabled self-sufficiency and survival by whatever means necessary. Others may march in lockstep with the Fascists, but that is personally unacceptable. Fuck the Fascists!
7. The need for Net access on the iPhone XR diminishes by the day as the “over the top” coverage of “corona,” much of it pure bullshit, supersedes everything. Lying on the airbed in the mausoleum, listening to redundant Spotify® playlists on the JBL® Flip 5, and staring at the ceiling may become the “new normal.”

Passive resistance will be accomplished by decreasing any form of participation in the the “new normal” bullshit. The most important aspect is to not spend money to support any part of the new Fascist regime. Minimalism and survival are the top priorities. Any modifications will be added later in Notes.