People are busybodies who should mind their own business. If she wants to wear tartan or purple socks nobody would dare pass comment in public.
I remember when masks first became wide-spread, I thought “ah, maybe once this is over, we will have normalised masks to the extent that people wear them when they have a cold, like in East Asia”.
Nope. If anything, it’s become less socially acceptable.
I get if people don’t like it if they’re being forced to do something, but why people are this pressed about what others choose to wear, I will never understand.
Her reasons for masking are perfectly reasonable, given she has family members who’re immunocompromised and she’s doing it to protect them from her, which is actually what masks are for.
I’m not sure whoever wrote this article thought through the quotes they chose to use though:
“”I can choose to wear a respirator and should be free to do so without being challenged, after all, me wearing a mask has no impact on other people,””
With the best will in the world, her entire position is that masking does in fact have an impact on other people and that people should do this. In the initial image she’s wearing a t shirt with “masking saves lives” on it. Which it does when you’re controlling the spread of a respiratory infection. I just think whoever put this article together could have rephrased this to make more sense in the context, because what I think she meant was her masking doesn’t *hurt* anyone, not that it has no impact.
Even so, I think trying to drum up hatred against people who have probably got emotional reactions to palpable reminders of the covid years is probably a mistake. Trotting out a young girl who clearly has a good reason to do it, to demonise people who are obviously hurting about it isn’t really a cool or good thing to be doing, even if the people who’re criticising her have no right to be doing so.
Imagine if the strongest memory you had of masking was standing isolated while your parent, husband, wife, or even child dies in an adjacent room, whom you can’t see or be with due to covid rules. Do you think you’d have a positive association with masking? I doubt it. Many hundreds of thousands of people have had these experiences and I think it’s a kind of generational trauma that will make many people wary and distressed by this concept for a long time.
So it’s possible that no, her masking and being vocal about it isn’t having no impact whatsoever on other people, it could easily be triggering to people with traumatic stress they associate with masking during covid.
When people ask or get rude about wearing masks, just tell them you’re dying. We all arev🙂
Plenty of people have underlying or invisible health concerns that make them handy, so it doesn’t bother me.
The only example I found a bit odd was a young woman who put up a blog post, who seemed to be planning to wear a full-blown space helmet type mask for even 10 minute car journeys and through her time at university.
I wear mine at the airport and other than a few odd looks I’ve never had any trouble.
I’ve caught COVID enough times on flights from having selfish morons sat next to me sneezing away into their hands touching everything without even a hanky.
Also routinely see parents bringing their kids into Asda with obvious bouts of whooping cough spluttering all over the fresh veg.
Those things are what should be socially unacceptable. The hygiene levels of some British people are revolting.
Is CEV a bit overemphasised though?
I remember my mates mum got COVID.. She was recovering from cancer, obese, and 75 years old. I thought she was done for, and she shrugged it off in 2 days.
Neighbour upstairs, 40 or so, CEV as had cancer (she eventually died of it sadly)… Well, she was out having tinnies with the neighbours after about a month of COVID lol.
Only other CEV person I know, had a mask exemption from her doctor.
How much does it actually matter, and why is COVID so much worse than things like flu have been?
The people I personally know who got fucked over hardest by COVID, weren’t even CEV.
After COVID? I am sick in bed with COVID right now. I also wear a mask around the house to protect my partner.
Its not the masks that piss me off its the learned behaviour about queuing. I keep queue jumping by accident because people leave so much distance between themselves and the next person in the queue . The floor stickers have been removed and normal queuing is now allowed yet people seem to want to put 10 ft between themselves at the checkout.
While from this article it seems the girl has made wearing masks part of her identity which is a bit weird, she is totally free to do or wear what she wants. Mind your own business!
Two of my neighbours got COVID-19 last week. It’s not like it disappeared off the face of the earth. Some people wear masks for many different reasons. My parents are extremely vulnerable. I don’t want to risk it.
I’ve started wearing masks again on planes, I get some funny looks but I noticed I was getting flu/cold/covid literally every time after getting on a plane and I got really fed up of it.
Personally I don’t have an issue with people wearing them although I do sense a certain snobbery from mask wearers. It’s like “I’m certainly not breathing the same air as you”!
What a weird thing to abuse someone over. Why is it anyone elses business
Is this the “nobody’s going to tell me what to wear” crowd, attempting to tell other people what they should wear?
After Covid?
I’m pretty sure it hasn’t gone anywhere…
Although COVID restrictions are a thing of the past, COVID is still a very real issue for some of us. I have a chronic lung condition and could potentially die if I caught COVID.
Does that mean that I’m a twat for wearing a mask to protect my life?
I’m sure covid’s made us all more nasty to each other. Something about it. Maybe we all became really stressed or got reminded of our own mortality and became insecure about the fact our lives are not only finite, but can end at any time for reasons entirely out of our control and so we take it out on people who remind us of that fact.
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People are busybodies who should mind their own business. If she wants to wear tartan or purple socks nobody would dare pass comment in public.
I remember when masks first became wide-spread, I thought “ah, maybe once this is over, we will have normalised masks to the extent that people wear them when they have a cold, like in East Asia”.
Nope. If anything, it’s become less socially acceptable.
I get if people don’t like it if they’re being forced to do something, but why people are this pressed about what others choose to wear, I will never understand.
Her reasons for masking are perfectly reasonable, given she has family members who’re immunocompromised and she’s doing it to protect them from her, which is actually what masks are for.
I’m not sure whoever wrote this article thought through the quotes they chose to use though:
“”I can choose to wear a respirator and should be free to do so without being challenged, after all, me wearing a mask has no impact on other people,””
With the best will in the world, her entire position is that masking does in fact have an impact on other people and that people should do this. In the initial image she’s wearing a t shirt with “masking saves lives” on it. Which it does when you’re controlling the spread of a respiratory infection. I just think whoever put this article together could have rephrased this to make more sense in the context, because what I think she meant was her masking doesn’t *hurt* anyone, not that it has no impact.
Even so, I think trying to drum up hatred against people who have probably got emotional reactions to palpable reminders of the covid years is probably a mistake. Trotting out a young girl who clearly has a good reason to do it, to demonise people who are obviously hurting about it isn’t really a cool or good thing to be doing, even if the people who’re criticising her have no right to be doing so.
Imagine if the strongest memory you had of masking was standing isolated while your parent, husband, wife, or even child dies in an adjacent room, whom you can’t see or be with due to covid rules. Do you think you’d have a positive association with masking? I doubt it. Many hundreds of thousands of people have had these experiences and I think it’s a kind of generational trauma that will make many people wary and distressed by this concept for a long time.
So it’s possible that no, her masking and being vocal about it isn’t having no impact whatsoever on other people, it could easily be triggering to people with traumatic stress they associate with masking during covid.
When people ask or get rude about wearing masks, just tell them you’re dying. We all arev🙂
Plenty of people have underlying or invisible health concerns that make them handy, so it doesn’t bother me.
The only example I found a bit odd was a young woman who put up a blog post, who seemed to be planning to wear a full-blown space helmet type mask for even 10 minute car journeys and through her time at university.
I wear mine at the airport and other than a few odd looks I’ve never had any trouble.
I’ve caught COVID enough times on flights from having selfish morons sat next to me sneezing away into their hands touching everything without even a hanky.
Also routinely see parents bringing their kids into Asda with obvious bouts of whooping cough spluttering all over the fresh veg.
Those things are what should be socially unacceptable. The hygiene levels of some British people are revolting.
Is CEV a bit overemphasised though?
I remember my mates mum got COVID.. She was recovering from cancer, obese, and 75 years old. I thought she was done for, and she shrugged it off in 2 days.
Neighbour upstairs, 40 or so, CEV as had cancer (she eventually died of it sadly)… Well, she was out having tinnies with the neighbours after about a month of COVID lol.
Only other CEV person I know, had a mask exemption from her doctor.
How much does it actually matter, and why is COVID so much worse than things like flu have been?
The people I personally know who got fucked over hardest by COVID, weren’t even CEV.
After COVID? I am sick in bed with COVID right now. I also wear a mask around the house to protect my partner.
Its not the masks that piss me off its the learned behaviour about queuing. I keep queue jumping by accident because people leave so much distance between themselves and the next person in the queue . The floor stickers have been removed and normal queuing is now allowed yet people seem to want to put 10 ft between themselves at the checkout.
While from this article it seems the girl has made wearing masks part of her identity which is a bit weird, she is totally free to do or wear what she wants. Mind your own business!
Two of my neighbours got COVID-19 last week. It’s not like it disappeared off the face of the earth. Some people wear masks for many different reasons. My parents are extremely vulnerable. I don’t want to risk it.
I’ve started wearing masks again on planes, I get some funny looks but I noticed I was getting flu/cold/covid literally every time after getting on a plane and I got really fed up of it.
Personally I don’t have an issue with people wearing them although I do sense a certain snobbery from mask wearers. It’s like “I’m certainly not breathing the same air as you”!
What a weird thing to abuse someone over. Why is it anyone elses business
Is this the “nobody’s going to tell me what to wear” crowd, attempting to tell other people what they should wear?
After Covid?
I’m pretty sure it hasn’t gone anywhere…
Although COVID restrictions are a thing of the past, COVID is still a very real issue for some of us. I have a chronic lung condition and could potentially die if I caught COVID.
Does that mean that I’m a twat for wearing a mask to protect my life?
I’m sure covid’s made us all more nasty to each other. Something about it. Maybe we all became really stressed or got reminded of our own mortality and became insecure about the fact our lives are not only finite, but can end at any time for reasons entirely out of our control and so we take it out on people who remind us of that fact.