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.
I also mask. People don’t generally talk about it here, and masking wasn’t even very common back when the pandemic was taken more seriously.
Never faced any aggression but people do give you a wide berth which is kind of hilarious to me, but it doesn’t bother me at all.
The wide berth I don’t care about, although mostly it’s still pretty normal to see masks in hospitals, but some creep in a Fuck Trudeau shirt reeeeeeing at me about it on the bus I could live without. I always make sure to wear earbuds and just pretend I can’t hear them.
I rather like the wide berth people give me even though it doesn’t make much sense. Like, anyone could have Covid, but if I had it and I wear a respirator I’ll be less dangerous than someone who has it and doesn’t wear one. I get that people equate respirators with spooky but that’s just because they haven’t thought about it.
Thinking back on it, there was a single dude that spoke to me randomly. I think it might have been because of the mask but I’ve genuinely no idea, I always wear ANC headphones and ignore people. It helps my anxiety a lot.
Sadly, the people that will really appreciate you using a respirator are those you generally don’t see out and about because they can’t be, it isn’t safe for them.
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/
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
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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The fabric of society and basic belief in science has been made a villain to fascist rubes.
Probably drank from the Kool-Aid during Covid times.
I’m immunocompromised and I wear a mask whenever I go out. When people challenge me, saying “COVID is over, and anyway, it’s just like a cold”, I tell them that it’s not over, it will never be over, over 100 people in our local city went to hospital just last week, and another 30 or so died from it.
I think that people know deep down that COVID really is serious, they don’t want to admit it or wear masks, and seeing people taking it seriously makes them feel threatened emotionally and philosophically.
Due to immunocompromised people I regularly interact with, I masked and isolated much more and much longer than the average person in my area. I still keep a mask in the car and on my bike. They also come in useful when you don’t want to be recognized or bothered by people. I’m not sure if they cause problems for some facial recognition tech, but that would be a welcome bonus.
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.
Their empathy chip for anyone outside their tiny circle is missing.
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.
A lot of them got sucked into the whole “the government is forcing it on you to control the population”, and they simply can’t comprehend that anyone would voluntarily wear what they now consider being the symbol of submission to the government. In their mind it doesn’t work and never worked and you’re just virtue signalling your support of the government. It’s wild and a lost cause.
I’d expect it to get much worse now.
Just tell them you’re contagious, and don’t want to pass it on to them.
Masks are a sign that things aren’t the normal of 5 years ago.
Just say you are protecting them whether they like it or not
