I experienced a bonus effect recently when I got Covid and made a very concerted effort to not give it to people (by letting them know, wearing a mask, testing, etc.) and people ALSO got very mad at me. Heads in the sand, that's all anyone wants, apparently.
I thought it was very cool, since it was the first time I've dropped my guard about public masking really (since I was on vacation) and of course, everyone was hacking and snorting everywhere freely and I IMMEDIATELY got covid, like 2 days into a ten day trip. Felt great.
The number of times I got death threats for enforcing the mask restriction at my work(because my boss told me to) when the pandemic was bigger, is just wild.
I get asked that too. Like it seems more reasonable to people that you would walk around with covid behind a mask, than actually protect yourself in the first place.
I mean that always was the main reason for wearing it. It's preventative against catching it, sure, but the mask was more about keeping you from spreading it yourself if you had it (especially if you were asymptomatic)
Right. But I feel like this knowledge is pretty loose in most people’s heads. Even if they knew it once, it fell out at some point, and now you wearing a mask to avoid giving *them* a disease is odd and unusual. 🤷🏼♀️
Which is unfortunate because it's now starting to perpetuate this idea of people continuing to wear masks being germophobes 🙄 Well, more than originally
It's frustrating because my health is very poor (but I don't look unhealthy) so I wear them for both reasons
Yeah those two covid years really taught me a lot about how apathetic people are about illness.
I was being extremely mindful about public health during the study of mold interactions in 2018 when... 2020 made me realize that almost nobody would have cared anyway. 🤨
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It's frustrating because my health is very poor (but I don't look unhealthy) so I wear them for both reasons
"Someone...... definitely not me tho. Imma just stay here and posture anonymously on the internet. You know, where it's safe"
I was being extremely mindful about public health during the study of mold interactions in 2018 when... 2020 made me realize that almost nobody would have cared anyway. 🤨