Sometimes my job can be really difficult. Most of the time, I enjoy my position as a professional heating and cooling technician for a sizable air quality control corporation in my city. However, things have definitely gotten a lot more complicated with the coronavirus outbreak. Whereas I used to only worry about grumpy homeowners and aggressive dogs when I went into the residential HVAC industry, these days I have to worry about airborne contaminants that could effectively hurt my family and myself. Now, it would be a lot easier for me to manage my fears of the virus if homeowners were as sensitive about their indoor air quality as I am. Specifically, if people actually believe that face masks made a difference and weren’t trying to make a political statement with their refusal to put them on. Recently, things have gotten very nerve-wracking because many of my heating and cooling clients refused to wear a face mask in their own home. This is very concerning to me, but at least I feel like I have some protection by wearing my own PPE. The bigger problem has become clients who actually insist I need to remove my own face mask before I can inspect their HVAC equipment. I’ve had a string of radical right-wing clients telling you that I won’t be able to access their air conditioner or furnace until they can see my entire face. My day-to-day job trying to repair broken air conditioning systems and clean out air ducts has certainly gotten a lot more serious since people started denying the pandemic was the problem.