Gloves people buy to protect themselves from coronavirus now are littering our streets. What does that say about us?
We need to talk about those blue, black and white disposable gloves now littering our streets, our sidewalks, our green spaces and our supermarket parking lots.that people desperate to stave off the coronavirus took the trouble to hunt down and purchase and awkwardly wriggle their fingers into — but then tossed out, not caring who might have to come behind and pick them up and potentially put themselves at risk by doing so.Every time I go on a walk, I now have to step over gloves.
Clockwise from upper left: A discarded mask rests among flowers outside of a grocery store in Gardena; a protective glove worn floats in Newport Harbor; a discarded glove sits along a road in La Crescenta; and a discarded glove on the ground on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.as an art project to convey the time we are living in. But sidestepping them in real life has an ick factor akin to encountering a used condom or hypodermic needle.
The tossed gloves are all over L.A., I’m told. But not just all over L.A. All over the country, all over the world. Just search social media and news reports. And it isn’t just gloves. It’s also masks. Though more gloves than masks. So many gloves.
If you are wearing disposable gloves while out for essentials, please throw them *in the trash* not on the ground.
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