I've never gotten it either. I dunno how much they really help, but wearing one is so trivial. But I think at this point a lot of people are just in total denial of everything to do with C-19. So maybe for them there is a moral imperative in defying it. Like everything else this big, it becomes heavily politicized and the division follows. AFAICS, it's just a moral/political game for them.
I expected politics or denial to be a part of it, but to even get to this point seems like a lot of mental gymnastics for just a piece of cloth.
Politicizing is like A ~ B ~ C ~ X ~ Y ~ Z so therefore mask = bad????
Denial / playing ostrich I don't get either... or maybe it works if you die and have nothing left to worry about *roll safe meme here*
You don’t wear a mask to protect yourself, you do it to protect everyone from you. Here in Amurica we don’t understand community or helping each other. We say: “Individual rights matter more than the collective good” also “Science is stupid”.
1/2: When it’s 90 degrees outside and New England humid, wearing a mask makes you feel like you’re suffocating. I took my three year old hiking a couple weeks ago and tons of people were running in that weather and wearing masks. That’s just stupid.
2/2: I’m fine wearing a mask when going shopping, getting a haircut, or going to the bank. Not when walking around in nature or my neighborhood. I can get fined $300 for not doing the latter.
I won't wear a mask when walking around outside when no one else is within 10+ feet or in similar situations. I get that. But I was at the grocery store (with lots of people inside) and people were getting way more upset than needed about having to wear the free store-provided mask. Complaining about rights etc (funny b/c they conveniently forget about this thing call private property).
Over here it seems like 99% of people wear masks when needed. Not when hiking and I think it's weird they require that.
Some people resort to a shield. Also some masks fog up your glasses, which is very annoying. But usually the ones I see without a mask aren't even the ones wearing glasses. The ones wearing glasses seem to have largely figured out how to avoid the fogging up.
It's American individualism, pure and simple. So many have no concern for the collective good and can't see past their own noses. It's an inconvenience to ME, and I'M not worried about getting sick, and you can't tell ME what to do. It's the American way and a disease that COVID just so happens to be capitalizing on. Pun intended.
I make supply runs every other week. Only about 60% of customers in the grocery store I shop at wear masks, and those who don't are less than cooperative in social distancing. I'm afraid that the worst is yet to come in the US.
The denial thing is 7-yr-old mentality: WONT wear a mask. DON'T CARE if it's good for me. f**k YOU and your mask.
On the other hand, the idea of having to wear one, when there is no other human closer than half a mile away, is equally immature. Do I have to wear one in my car? Some local police here, apparently think so
All academic, for now, I'm self-isolating whether actually locked down or not
Jon Stewart had a really good response when Colbert interviewed him: Next time tell your surgeon to "...take that liberal bullshit somewhere else. You come in here with no covering, you don’t wash those hands and you stick them on my open wound because I’m an American.‘”
Before, I'd only been actually in the chair when the dentist was drilling, but here, I can go in the surgery with my wife. The dentist firmly told me stand further away, for my own safety, but I'd already got one lungful. Not nice. And that was just ordinary vaporised tooth, without added virus.
Mostly I believe, just going by FB feed and such, that many think it is placebo. Not worth inconveniencing everyone. Unnecessary. Such BS - All the excuses.
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