I still mask, I think COVID is super serious and I work with immunocompromised patients in a hospital, and I take public transit, so it’s just generally a good idea. I am very, very, very vaccinated, but I’m still not comfortable unmasked. Two angry men on separate occasions have made comments to me about masking and how I don’t need to do it. I just stare right through them and ignore, but why are they so angry? It does not affect them in the slightest, and if they think I’m stupid have at it.

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    Ill give you the term for it at the end because everyone hates the term. Its the same reason those people hate vegetarians, and gay men, and renewable energy, and small cars. Wearing a mask is consideration for others, its compassion for the vulnerable, its protecting yourself. Its weak, effeminate, unmanly. The whole of conservatism boils down to: toxic masculinity

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    Just tell them you have cancer and are immunocompromised. That usually shuts them up. Irrational people are not worth arguing with and sometimes this makes them think twice about harassing other people.

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    Two angry men on separate occasions have made comments to me about masking and how I don’t need to do it. I just stare right through them and ignore,

    I just say thanks, I prefer wearing it and I’m more comfortable with it on. That generally works.

    but why are they so angry?

    Might go back to the conflicting and stupid instructions we got when the pandemic started. The public health establishment lost all its credibility and continues to mess up.

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    People are fucking stupid, and if the few people they look up to say masks are bad then that’s just how it is, regardless of facts or logic.

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    because they’re fucking morons. they see someone wearing a mask and think: “look at that idiot, he thinks he isn’t gonna get sick? who fucken cares, it’s just a cold, anyway, pussy.”

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      My coworker had 15 relatives die of COVID in India pre vaccine. Attending fifteen virtual funerals should be something these freaks are forced to do.

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    I’m just freestyling here and I’m sure someone with a professional experience or academic background in psychology can tear it up for arsepaper, but I wonder if it’s an innate fear?

    Like the uncanny valley with autonomous human-style robots or how AI generated pictures of faces are sending primitive recognition patterns haywire, I wonder if covering up half of the visual cues to recognise someone as friend or foe provokes an in-built negative reaction?

    I mean, it’s not rational, but then chucklefucks who complain about it don’t do rational even if it’s in their interest.

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      I have never though about it that way, it is an interesting thought.

      I believe, that some people put on that Covid denialism because they are unable to face the truth out of fear. And every mask is a reminder of that fear. I don’t have proof, but I know people who work that way with a lot of things, from climate to covid to Russia.

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      Agree. I voted Kamala but damn all these threads trying to make mountains out of molehills is pretty dumb.

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    I am very, very, very vaccinated, but I’m still not comfortable unmasked.

    I genuinely don’t understand this attitude. The vaccines work, very well in fact. Yet people are still paranoid about COVID.

    Why would you be worried after being protected?