For my job, I go inside about four homes per day. Almost every customer I encounter is a white boomer. I always wear a mask in their homes. I actually knock on their doors without my mask on, then put on the mask as I step inside, to lower the chance that they will say anything.
In the last year or so, about four people have said something about my mask. Three were obviously liberals, one was probably a liberal (he drove a Volkswagon with New York plates). Just yesterday, a white male boomer told me that he didn’t have covid when I stepped inside his home; I told him that I wear a mask inside every house I enter, and he changed the subject. He was watching MSNBC on-demand while I worked.
A few months ago, a white boomer woman whose house was filled with turbolib decorations told me that no one in her house was sick and that I didn’t need to wear a mask. I think I said “okay” and kept my mask on. She didn’t say anything else.
Last spring I was waiting for my kid to finish a basketball game and dying of hunger, so I went into a small café to get a muffin. It was packed, and I was of course the only one masked. Liberal decorations were on the walls. The unmasked owner, working behind the counter, loudly remarked that I must be vaccinated. (I am.) Since I was surrounded by anti-maskers, this made me pretty nervous, but they all ignored us. I said something about long covid as I left the café. I never want to go back, which is a tragedy because the muffin was honestly the best I ever had in my life. A few weeks later I saw the owner, unmasked, enter a grocery store packed with unmasked tourists from around the country.
The guy with the Volkswagon was deranged. He acted normal until I put my mask on while we were talking about something, then he started angrily shouting that he couldn’t hear me because of my mask. (He had asked if my mask was company policy, I told him that I couldn’t work if I got sick.) As a coworker and I worked in his basement, he loudly stomped around upstairs for at least twenty minutes. Oddly enough, many of my coworkers found out about this and they supported me, although none of them wear masks. The only liberal thing about this guy was the fact that he didn’t have a pickup truck in his driveway, so I’m not really sure about his political views.
One very wealthy white boomer lady who owns a huge hotel and multiple properties remarked, as I stepped inside one of the houses she owns: “Are they still making you wear that goddamn mask?” I told her I was wearing it for myself. She said: “Oh.” The decorations in her house were standard white boomer grandma-type stuff. I didn’t see anything blatantly political there, so I’m not really sure about her political views.
I almost never encounter homeowners who are not boomers, but one white millennial I met pathetically picked up a mask that he had left on his kitchen counter, then set it down again.
My experience has been that fascists don’t say anything about my mask, unless we spend a long time together (riding around in a work vehicle, for instance). Then they will maintain that covid is “just a cold.”
I wear my mask doing fb marketplace pickups and it’s always the white folks who look taken aback. People of color never bat an eye.
It’s wild how attached to their delusions some of these fuckers have gotten that they’re so willing to get involved with someone else’s business. In the Still Covid groups I keep seeing stories of immunocompromised and disabled folks being harassed when they’re out with their kids and shit. Who the fuck does that?
I don’t get this. How does it impact these peoples’ lives if you mask?
They can’t see their full, luscious lips and fantasize about deep long kisses. The firelight dancing over their bodies as the heat from the fireplace mingles with their own body heat, creating a dancing wondrous feeling on their skin. Slowly, the fire spreads, eventually engulfing the entire cabin.
It makes them feel guilty, because deep down they know they should be too. But it’s easier to get upset at someone else than change your actions.
they are afraid he is actually a Hamas member behind the mask
I wish I was.
The bourgeoisie and their running dogs are in denial about so many crises that threaten their treats. Masks truly are a herald of the apocalypse for liberals and fascists.
I said something about long covid as I left the café.
Forget Long Covid. Talk about the brain damage. Its all I bring up. Over and over. Covid causes brain damage. Every infection. In sure you’ve noticed it if you still mask. Most people don’t remember the brain damage facts, maybe from the brain damage, maybe cause they’re ignorant and illiterate westerners, but I remind them.
I watched Eddington the other day and tbh I have no fucking idea what that movie was attempting to say and the main thought I had while watching it was “fuck I miss 2020 when people wore masks and stood away from me”
Sorry you get that shit. These people are absurd.
one white millennial I met pathetically picked up a mask that he had left on his kitchen counter, then set it down again.
Incredibly lib coded lmfao
Whenever I talk with someone who I know doesn’t mask and is talking about how they just got over covid but still can’t taste anything, I politely flex on them by saying “damn, that sucks! I’ve never had it because I use respirators*.”. The response is always “that’s really smart of you.” But then I never see them in a mask after either.
- footnote: it’s not just because of that, I try to stay out of riskier situations and have given up a lot to try to avoid covid, and there’s both privilege to be able to do that and pain from having to. But I’m not going to inject nuance when I’m trying to gaslight people into wearing respirators to protect themselves
One white liberal lady told me that it was smart to wear a mask, except she wasn’t wearing one???
A lot of people lack the social courage to wear one
it would be really cool if the obstinance i posses could be imparted without a decade of abuse
Many such cases. Idfk what to do at that point.
I can’t speak for everyone but with 0% of the population masking I’m not sure what me masking would accomplish
It would filter the air you inhale so you don’t get covid over and over again. Cut down on your risk of getting long covid. It’s better if everyone masks, but one way masking is still quite protective. I have good-fitting high quality masks, have been around sick people indoors for prolonged periods of time, and have not gotten sick, when other people who weren’t masking did. Respirators do work.
The physics of disease transmission are actually pretty straightforward. I found the diagrams in this WHO publication about a transmission model pretty helpful: https://iris.who.int/items/74ff0ab3-7ebd-40ac-9234-cb5f912050fb
If it’s just protective for me then I don’t really care. I can count on one hand the times I’ve even gotten a cold since 2010.
I used to get colds like every 2 week. Since I regularly mask up in public, I dont get sick at all. THAT is an massive improvement of life quality.
A classmate asked me about my mask this week. The same guy came to class last week with an obvious, raging flu (unmasked of course). I should have said I wear it because of people like him.
Here, unfortunately, the ‘covid causes brain damage’ line doesn’t work. Even with doctors and health care workers. So, I’ve basically given up on trying to actually discuss this or change anyone’s mind.
Because I live in FL and I’m, quite literally, the only person I ever see wearing a properly fitting N95 for weeks or months on end, I get this quite a bit. Mostly from conservative jackoffs but often from people near me when I’m in line at a store or a location. First thing I get is a lot of dirty looks. If that doesn’t phase them, I occasionally get the “why are you wearing a mask? Are you sick?” because they’re concerned about themselves first and foremost. I’m a big guy who, after 6 years of this dogshit, has just sort of defaulted to a resting ‘don’t fuck with me’ face, so I go with one of three general answers at this point - if they seem decent and stupid I say “because you aren’t and I need to protect myself and the air I breathe”. Generally that shuts them up. They hate the idea of collectivized responsibility. If I get a chud or a boomer bitch (its almost always the older women), I’ll often go with “mind your fucking business” or “none of your fucking business”. I sometimes get a follow up and then its “do I look like I’m interested in talking to you about this?” with a very pointed stare. The third, which is more rare now but used to be more common, is the loudly coughing while walking away in a sort of virtue signaling thing. I had one lady at Walgreens do this to me the other day. When I started yelling after her to “come back and do that to my face”, she sped up, so I yelled “you’re as weak as my immune system!”
I don’t know why I typed all this out other than to vent. I really really really hate it here.
