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An Open Letter to Michiganders: We Have Got To Do Better
I used to see stuff like this every now and then. Then it slowly picked up; so much so that I actually started to take pictures of it.
And why wouldn't you take the time to throw them away? Someone else has now got to touch the thing that you used to prevent you from getting the virus. Now they are at risk and it's just...sad, irresponsible, lazy, sloppy, disrespectful and...man. I don't have the words and I'd run out of them if I did.
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We run out of things. Apparently manners, compassion, and cleaning up after ourselves is at the top of the list now.
Or is that right after the coin shortage?
You know what we haven't run out of?
Garbage cans.
WE have simply got to do better.
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