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Wearing a Mask Is Not Normal
That’s all, really. I didn’t say it’s bad to wear a mask. But it’s not normal.
Go ahead and rant and rave about us normal people, if you like. We’re just being human. Humans have warm CO2 coming out of our mouths, and we like to breath in fresh air, instead of that warm CO2. So why are some people so surprised that humans don’t want to wear masks?
One thing I often hear is that wearing a mask is a minor inconvenience. Minor to whom? I find it to be a major inconvenience. And who are you to say otherwise? I don’t find it inconvenient to wear boots and long pants every day of the year. If it’s 105 or 25, I’m wearing boots and pants. A lot of people couldn’t take it. They tell me so. People are different.
So, for those who find it a minor inconvenience, I submit it is a minor inconvenience for you to either respect the rights of those who dare to have faces (and stay away from us), or just stay home, if faces bother you. Fair enough?
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It will be the new norm. Until the Left decides to get edgy and stop wearing masks.
They lie to get you to comply. It is all a gaslighting psy-op.
Fear and submission is the purpose.
But you know, I don’t find it much more than a minor pain in the a** to wear one for the 15-30 minutes while I’m in a commercial establishment if that’s the business’ rule. But imagine the employee who has to wear one for a 4, 6, or 8-hour shift? That’s insane.
If masks really work, everything should be fully open.
This, I totally agree with. If you’re going to force everyone to wear masks and the reason you’re giving for that is because it helps keep the virus from spreading, then open everything back up to its full capacity and let people decide what they’re willing to do. Don’t force people to wear masks and then continue to keep things either partially or completely closed.
Wearing a mask is not normal.
Wearing a mask changes my personality. I lose all interest in being being charitable to the other faceless masked blobs I encounter. They can’t see my face, and I can’t see theirs, so it matters not whether either of us is grumpy or cheerful. A smile does no good, so skip it. I just want the transaction to be completed as quickly as possible so that I can leave the building and remove the mask.
Masks tell us to fear the other person, so stay away from the other person, and minimize any interaction if interaction is required. No point in trying to engage, to be friendly or to be helpful.
Facial expression is a major component of normal personal interactions among Americans. Eliminating communication by facial expression by covering up the face materially changes American personal interaction. Making masks normal would fundamentally change social and business dynamics in the United States.
RIGHT?
No not fair enough.
Whether you you wear pants or not does not affect my health if you happen to be infected with a potentially lethal virus. if we are in an enclosed space in public or can’t keep a reasonable distance because of crowding, it’s just common courtesy and good public health for the time being. Not permanently. For the time being.
How about you stay home unless you can behave like an adult in public.
The childish whining about this is nauseating. The politicization of this is nauseating.
Please try to explain yourself rationally. You suggest that being a normal person, with a face, is childish. At what age does one stop exhaling moisture and warm CO2, so that wearing a mask is not disgustingly uncomfortable? At what age do others get to decide what is a minor inconvenience for me?
Until you answer rationally, I demand that you wear long pants at all times. Refusing to do so is childish.
Just two more weeks?
I think the question of how long we should be expected to wear masks is a fair one. We haven’t been required to wear them before – not even during flu season, so wearing them isn’t a normal thing for American society. Since it isn’t a normal thing for us to do, I think it’s only fair to ask, “How long do we need to wear them? What are the metrics that would indicate we can go back to normal and stop wearing them?”
I think it’s the openendedness of the suggestion/requirement that has most people up in arms. After all, we were told to close everything down for just a couple of weeks so that we could “flatten the curve” and keep hospitals from being overrun. That was 4 months ago, and places are still fighting (some more than others) to open up again. Given that, why should I believe that mask-wearing is just going to be a temporary measure?
Make sure his head is wearing a mask when it is displayed on a pike outside city hall! (Preferably one that has “Black Lives Matter” written on it…)
Submission , that’s why I always refer to it as a face burqa, and it brought out self appointed religious police who will shriek at you or mace you or worse, it’s only a matter of time until they’re beating us with bats. We are supposed to submit to their fears yet they tell us to grow up.
I’ve started calling them face diapers.
It wasn’t long ago that left-leaning city governments were banning masks as a threat to public safety.
What is the benefit of keep 6-foot distancing if we still have to wear a mask? Doesn’t that actually prove that masks don’t stop the CoV?
And a vaccine may only give immunity for the current permutation of the CoV, and for a questionable period of time (especially as in this case a vaccine that was rushed through shortened testing). If waiting for the vaccine is the end in sight, we may be wearing masks for the rest of our lives.
LOL. I’m irrational.
Your entire premise is childish.
What 2 billion plus Asians aren’t “normal”?
All women in the Middle East who have been covering their faces for thousands of years aren’t “normal”?
Poor baby. Can’t be inconvenienced to try and not spew potentially infected spittle at your neighbors during a Pandemic?
Grow up and grow a pair.
And if y’all think most average Americans are going to look at this behavior and flock to your side, you are sadly mistaken. They look at all the “muh Freedom!” tantrums at Walmart or the dentist and shake their heads. Most normal rational people understand it’s a temporary measure until this crap is gone, we have a cure or a a vaccine.
No. Until the Pandemic is over, we have a cure or we have a vaccine, It sucks. But that’s the reality.
Until November. Either Biden wins and the fear mongering will disappear or Trump wins and something new will have to be used to try and get him.
The pandemic will NEVER BE OVER. Not with the definitions they’re using today.
The reality is, that may take years. The reality is we can choose to deal with the virus in a reasonable manner, or we can pretend that wearing masks for months (or years) on end is a reasonable thing to ask of other people.
Another reality is that people wear them on their chins or under their noses anyway.
These are your examples of normal? Islamic sexism and the people who gave us the phrase “WTF Japan”?
It’ll never be over. There will always be viruses. We are not sheep.
I’m doing what now?
I was at a team meeting at work yesterday (virtual). Talking to some people is like entering the twilight zone. Many of the team members are all in on masks. A few are of the opinion that now they know how much moisture droplets they are getting from others at all time that mask wearing in public / private should be required by law from this point forward.
The amazing part are that these are the same coworkers that used to come in and work sick because they got whatever virus from their kid but they did not want to use up their sick days on anything mundane as being sick but for taking care of their kids.
The world has gone nuts.
@kozak The Master of the Universe has spoken. Stop whining and obey. Your complaints are frivolous and not worthy of consideration.