It's like they were being forced at gunpoint to eat their veggies and brush their teeth at night.
It's been one of the worst reactionary movements I've ever seen in my life outside of "
The one consistent argument - aside from the conspiracy whacko stuff like 5G transmission (?!) - is how the masks will hurt them by cutting off the amount of oxygen we need. The "I Can't Breathe" excuse, which is so tone-deaf as to be crass intentionally. It's also wrong, with report after study after proven demonstration shows us.
So why are these wingnuts absolutely fucking freaking out over the wearing of something that really doesn't harm them and only costs about 6.99 to buy (cloth masks available in menswear stores NOW) or 15.99 to buy as a 50-pack off Amazon?
Masks are symbolic. They have cultural value. And in this case, in this Age of Coronavirus, the mask represents health care.
But here's the thing:
The mask is not about YOUR own health and well-being. The mask represents the health and well-being of EVERYONE ELSE AROUND YOU.
The mask does not stop you from contracting the virus. The mask reduces the odds of you spreading the virus to everyone else.
The mask is a symbol of you looking out for others, that you are a caring and thinking person, willing to do your part for the community - family, friends, neighbors, even your enemies - health.
What does it say for those who reject wearing the mask? What does it tell us when these self-absorbed people go out in public proudly displaying their faces? What level of Pride is driving these people to expose not themselves but everyone else to the risks of COVID?
It's not so much that each of these screaming, mocking people are increasing the odds they get exposed to a lethal virus.
It's that each of these screaming, mocking people are willing to get the rest of us sick. They don't care for us, they don't WANT to care for us. It would disrupt their self-perceptions of superiority.
Which symbolizes exactly how dangerous their self-centered, holier-than-thou, egomaniacal rage-driven world-view is.
Gods help us, because the people who refuse to wear the masks clearly don't give enough fucks to help us.
Their selfishness is getting everyone else killed.
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Even the brain-wizards with MAGA and KAG stickers on their pickup trucks wear face coverings and keep their distance in Oakhurst.
It's almost like they don't want to catch a grisly death either... I think the "protect your community" part may be lost on them, though.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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