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.
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
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.
Ooh I like that.
“I’m immunocompromised, do you harass alcoholics about not drinking?”
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.
The fabric of society and basic belief in science has been made a villain to fascist rubes.
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.
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.”
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.
they’d just laugh at the victims’ misfortune. these people are mentally defective.
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.
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.
Very plausible in my opinion. Probably like white people who don’t like hijabs.
Isn’t it about five years too late to be asking this question?
Agree. I voted Kamala but damn all these threads trying to make mountains out of molehills is pretty dumb.
So consider it from their position: fuck everyone else
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?
Immunity wanes after 3-4 months. It’s not long lasting.
That’s for the maximum amount of protection, but it continues to protect afterwards. It’s not a cliff edge.
You are right, but why rely on a single method of protection? Vaccinations are good, but not perfect.
Think of it as using a condom despite being on birth control pills: you are not just unlikely, but really really unlikely to get pregnant and it also protects from stds.
I also work with patients who have to get vaccines you’ve never heard of just to stay alive. Immunocompromise is pretty serious, I could not feel right if I infected them by being careless.
Because I read medical journals like this and I feel the most protection is the best way to go about life.
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2022/46/more-proof-covid-is-a-multi-system-cluster-bomb/