Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that
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There shouldn’t be a cost. In fact, I can’t afford to damage or lose the people & things that I love and make me a better person.
So here we are. I’ll gladly pay!
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I need to start masking again. Though the #1 person I masked for died 3 Tuesdays ago, and I’m a lot less motivated now.
Not excuses. Just reasons. Everyone should be masking.
Look after your health!
i hope one day you find a reason to mask for yourself bc you deserve that love too, but right now i hope you get the time you need to grieve 💔
"Because I'm really, really ugly. And you should think about masking too."
Hot as hell but it REALLY helped my allergies...
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Since starting to wear masks and washing hands in 2020 there hasn't been a new data-point.
Nothing beyond a little throat tickle.
I like having more healthy days every year!
Unfortunately the world is no longer talking about air quality much. We could have made everything better.
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The hopeful prediction isn’t that good for us either but I’m worried about the collapse part.
My reply was that there’s still lots of stuff going around that I don’t want to catch *or* pas on.
I help my elderly mother - she’s at risk, so I wear a mask in grocery stores/crowds to avoid getting sick from people who are too selfish to wear a mask out in public when they themselves are sick.
Forgot to wear one last weekend-got sick.
Screw whoever was sick w/no mask.
If I do, being the neurodivergent I am, I have a script:
"I've got an autoimmune disorder. I don't wanna get sick & I don't wanna get you sick. Do you wanna get me sick?"
if "yes":
"Okay then fuck off, why would I care what you think"
Act accordingly
Yelling in general, not at you.
It's, do I care about my neighbors, or not.
Last time I said:
Why do you care?
Why don’t you ask all the other people who aren’t wearing a mask if they’re sick?
(No answer)
I have to go to the nurses convention. Should be interesting to see if I’m the only one
To get rid of foggy glasses:
I pull the nosepiece up tightly, pinch it.
I put the edge of the mask right below my lower eyelashes.
Put my glasses on top of the mask nosebridge.
Pull it towards my chin a bit.
Hope that's useful.
Use a tiny bit of dish soap, polished into the lenses.
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I think EVERYONE should be masking in all spaces but
I mask everywhere when indoors or near more than 3 people outdoors.
I'm not chronically ill (though people in my life are & I try to respect their wellbeing) but honestly, I'm just doing it for me.
I don't enjoy getting sick.
And frankly, wearing a bra is more annoying.
As a chronically ill person, I appreciate it.
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They're masking -> Should I be masking? -> fear, shame
And
Masking -> signifier of disease -> fear, disgust
And
Masking -> they think they know better than me! -> anger.
Apparently. Seems weird to me.
A lot of aggression about mask mandates and mask wearing from individuals. There were anti-protections protests ofc! easy to forget now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-54043103
Best N95 I've ever worn. Soft, doesn't tear up my nose bridge, doesn't give me headaches from squishing my head. They're great.
https://envomask.com/
anti-vaxers are harming everyone.
What is really bad and not acceptable is no masking at places such as hospitals for staff, patients, and visitors. Should be mandatory!
Also, get a Covid vaccine while we trust their purity.
To never be a vector of infection of ANYTHING to my immunocompromised clients.
Made them a vow, sticking to it.
Still.
Last week I got a "Smart Woman" comment during a Post Office visit, and I returned to thank that man bc it's the first positive comment in 5 years.
And you know what? No flu, not even a cold this winter.
Keep on keeping on!
Yanno, dying is natural.
I don't want to become a deadly vector either. 😉
Know who doesn’t? ICE & KKK.
No need to make it any more complicated than that.
Conversing with a fellow attendee we agreed how nice it is that nobody cares. We agree everyone has a reason and it’s nobody’s business.
act accordingly !!
My husband also is very susceptible to respiratory viruses, so I mask to protect him, if I should ever be a carrier.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373711
I lowered the mask and loudly exhaled on him, should have seen the idiot take off.
Since then, I have *always* masked up in public.
In the half-decade (!) since, I have caught zero cold, zero flu, zero anything. Still a member in good standing of #TeamNovid
I’ve enjoyed 5 whole years of not being sick. I’ll continue public masking.
Me as well. . . Playing as Aurora Soulsborne (my Therapist that passed away at 33). She was a good woman ♀️
Why should anyone care if someone else decides to wear a mask in public?
It’s a health and safety courtesy!
Leave them alone.
Also so I don't get everyone sick since I'm always in contact with viruses. But mostly anarchy.
* Honestly the social pressure to not mask is much worse than the fact of breathing through a mask. I do it anyway, but if just one other person wears one, it feels a lot easier.
If I catch the shit, I will most likely spread the shit.
Therefore, I cover my shit.
Me: I haven't been sick with anything in 5 years. How many sick days have you taken?
Why would I want to be sick while on vacation? Or risk having to call out from work when I just arrived back home?
Wear mask = I don't suffer. That's simple math to me.
Even with my mildly idiosyncratic practices like "if I have to be unmasked in a building it's only going to be on one floor", I generally get sick less often than most people with my masking and nasal spray + CPC mouthwash.
When Spouse caught covid this winter, kiddo and I dodged it despite sharing a small apartment with one bathroom, because we were all diligent about masks, profi, and air flow
I do not want to disrupt my kids' lives. Both live thousands of miles away and one would have to come care for me or bury me.
I do it for my kids. I won't play Russian Roulette with their lives.
I don't get why people wear surgical masks, though. If going to the trouble, why not wear an N-95?
It had filters to be changed and a small fan that kept air circulating. (The rest was neoprene and didn't breathe.)
Only used it for those flights.
I expect it from authoritarian white Christian nationalists, but I am still stunned to see it from liberals & progressives who claim to care about others.
I had to break it down for my husband, a while back when he needed the urgent care, that he needed to wear a mask bc that building was full of sick people, and even though he was already sick, he could avoid being double sick.
Thought I'd mask forever until I found myself constantly pulling my mask down to speak.
I mask consistently when viruses are up. Another reason why epidemiology tracking is critical.
People just go about their day because it is not anyone business why one chooses to wear a mask, or anything else for that matter.
Mexicans have freedom to be, without judgement. 💝🇲🇽🌮🍻😎✌🏼
Why not inform and educate.
Or print your own
https://covidsafety.printify.me/
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1NptYhWsy4IsnfQOgWDtHnJ9CScQ5Y0ol?usp=share_link
it's nice also because I don't want to get sick but it's mostly that I don't want to spread stuff.
it should never have been a big deal to do it, it's not hard
Still haven’t had Covid and hope to keep it that way.
… I lined it with pockets to hold phone, speaker, & little gift packs of stickers to give out to people.