Dave Davenport (dogspunk)

Loose pg.6

Added 2020-06-27 05:42:18 +0000 UTC

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So dramatic!

This was a fun page to do. I hope y'all like it.

So starting last friday, tattoo shops are allowed to re-open in Los Angeles, and tbh I am not down with it. The curve never "flattened", and in fact had been rising faster and faster since quarantine began. But we decided to ignore that and re-open the state and Los Angeles has been spiking since then, and breaking records of new cases. Months ago, Covid-19 became the number one killer on Earth, and it's just getting worse, but we just gonna pretend it's normal. We were supposed to re-open when it was safe. It hasn't even been "safer". It's less safe. There's a lot of pressure to go back to tattooing, from other tattooists, and the multiple clients a day chomping at the bit to get tattooed, asking if I am open yet. My co-worker is going back to work, and I was considering just giving in to the pressure and crossing my fingers, but my body won't let me. I had the worst anxiety I have had in years, not letting up, and not letting me sleep. After several sleepless nights I decided it wasn't worth it. I've been dirt poor plenty of times in my life, and I would rather be hurting financially than not getting any sleep because I am so worried about my health/life, William's, our roommate's, our clients'. Tattoos aren't essential, and they aren't even close to being. It's really amazed me home many people are willing to risk it for something they really only want now because they are bored and impulsive. So, yeah, I am gonna wait until it is safe, not just when we all decide to pretend it is when it's quite the opposite. And if this is the new normal? Or goes on for a year or more? I don't know. I started tattooing when everyone was worried about HIV (though Hep C has always been a bigger worry) but that's so hard to transmit unless it's your intention... this is something else. it's scary.

Sorry to unload like that but I figured I would let you all know where I am sitting with my "day job". I hope you are all well and safe.