This feels really mean-spirited.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/covid-conscious/682252/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/covid-conscious/682252/
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This is an evil piece to publish in a time when mask bans are threatened.
Ps I never wore a mask because I was told to.
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& It's not been awful shedding the people who don't value disabled folks enough to support us in ways that work tbh.
https://bsky.app/profile/covingtonedu.bsky.social/post/3lo6tm5cqik2p
Why the fuck do they care???
I just have to wonder why these people like getting colds so much.
Is it all the mucus? Are they mucus fans?
Whilst the ONS do provide very good statistics, it's not a research paper, and I can cite several studies that support the risk increases with each infection.
Dunno if this sentence is trying to connect with the average person, OR say it in a mocking manner 🤔
For every piece like Goldberg outing the Signal leak, there's 3 of this type of nonsense. Plus pushing out Ed Yong to hire Jonathan Chait.
The clicks
Meanwhile where I live you're more likely to have someone aggressively coughing in your face with the flu "because fuck you cuck" than voluntary masking.
(There's a concerted anti-mask push coming from the right to discredit the ongoing threat of Covid and because masks don't help with surveillance).
ICE know that
And the CDC and NIH definitely aren't being gutted.
https://bsky.app/profile/engber.bsky.social
Otherwise they'd be partisan. 🙄
If I'm by myself, why would I wear a mask? Seems that maybe the article's thesis wasn't thought through?
So his default comeback was "what, you believe everything the government tells you? You do everything they say?"
When my partner caught it over the new year (23->24), we masked 24/7 and slept in different rooms.
It can work. Dunno what else to say.
Non-masking friends have been getting "family covid" annually or more.
Once you see that the only thing say, Matt Yglesias values in life is that Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk will think he's "one of the good liberals", their actions makes perfect sense.
I also like to see who is annoyed by it. will I make an effort to separate myself, or do I engage with the idiot judgement and with stern eye-contact and deliberately mumble gibberish at them? Who's to say? Every day a surprise!
how in God's name does a stranger masking impact you
So many of our issues are that people are just projecting their own bullshit all of the time on others that are just going about their lives
Even if no one is considering it because the problem is non-existent or moronic
It seems weird to think that's a bad thing.
Coincidence? Say what you want about us. We don’t care. Everyone else I talk to has family members fighting serious long Covid disease.
Based on my experience wearing a mask every day to work in a customer facing job for the last 5 years, I think a lot of people genuinely hate the notion that someone might try to protect themself or others
I've seen some doing more extreme precautions like you say, but so what. I prob run into 10 idiots every day who are harming the social fabric far more than any homebody or prepper. Weird hand-wringing.
The first time I saw someone wear a mask was at an airport around 2015. It didn’t outrage me at all
Not everyone can be as diligent as I am, of course.
I would prefer better ventilation and filtration standards for indoor air in workplaces, starting with schools and hospitals. That would help everyone. But the political will for it is absent.
I’m so mad I’m shaking.
One of my clients is on cancer meds right now and told me they were thinking of starting to mask again. I talked with them about where to get good quality respirators.
My mom is literally immune compromised, I would bet most "ever maskers" are, which makes this feel especially shitty.
One of the weirder Covid things was everyone convincing themselves that wearing masks was some huge imposition.
In the before-times my terrible colds dragged on forever. Now my hobby is to not get sick and I am very good at it.
Atlantic writer:
The “Evermaskers” — mostly the already disabled or sick who have taken precautions — are the only Plague survivors
And these “isolationists” now must rebuild society
Gomna start trying to use the force to convince them to let me cough into their open mouths
Sure, fine, i get it, you are always right and even HINTING you're not is questioning the validity of your entire existence. Got it. Now get over it, put on a mask, and help people not get sick.
some white should tell them that masking in public is bad for them.
That was a choice.
Because this isn't about masks, it's about the identification of dissenters.
Precautions are nice. You don’t want this.
the level of anger against people for protecting their health and others’ is bizarre and hateful
like, if you see someone in a mask, how do you know they didn’t just get transplant surgery or chemotherapy or care for someone who did? why rush to judge and blame?
The Atlantic is a dumpster fire.
I’m one of the maskers trying to protect myself using “science,” as he calls it. I’m already Black in a health system that hates me; I’m tired of this kind of dismissal
Apparently the term "filter" breaks the brain of many Americans