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Do you plan on wearing a mask for the rest of your life?

schiffern 4y ago
By that you mean in public indoor spaces. "Don't you want to kill your family members?" No, not really. Just my personal choice. A comfortable mask isn't some great burden to me. The whole line of questioning feels strange, like someone incredulously saying "Do you plan on wearing pants for the rest of your life??"
- techdragon 4y ago
  I find it’s actually pretty good to compare it to sun protection. Kids used to run around in the sun without sunscreen, still can in some places/times to a certain amount… but we collectively sort of realised the risks and so most people (at least in Australia) use sunscreen to avoid the easiest cancer to avoid, Melanoma. There are people who have a natural immunity of sorts due to darker skin and melanin concentrations, there are people that deliberately expose themselves for perceived benefits like “getting a tan” because “it looks healthy” and there are older people who got lucky and ran around unprotected who think it’s a rip off by big sunscreen and don’t see the point while also no longer needing it due to age and lifestyle changes out of lots of direct UV exposure.
  - blackshaw 4y ago
    Heaven only knows how humanity survived for 100,000 years while breathing air unmasked.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  I mean I very much understand the other commenter line of questioning but any questions related to mask wearing will be highly dependent of where you are from. I’m from Western Europe and mask wearing both never was political, was well followed during the much more stringent restrictions we had at the peak of the epidemic and has virtually disappeared from the past two years. It’s a very different attitude that what it seems to be in the state but our relationship with diseases is already culturally extremely different than what it is in the USA.
- lambo4bkfast 4y ago
  A mask cannot be more comfortable than no-mask unless you're in some very cold environment. Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants is off by orders of magnitude.
  - blackshaw 4y ago
    I'd honestly rather not wear pants for the rest of my life than go back to wearing a mask every day.
    - tomcam 4y ago
      I think you’ve invented a new kind of porn
  - schiffern 4y ago
    >A mask cannot be more comfortable than no-mask As you may note, that's not what I said. > Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants Didn't say that either. It's simply strange to me that people get so worked up over it, just like it would be strange if people got super worked up over wearing pants. In my experience, absent of the 'hot/stuffy mask face' it's no big deal. YMMV
lambo4bkfast 4y ago
Its a political statement/dogtag for them.
- GoldenMonkey 4y ago
  maybe even virtue signaling.
  - kcartlidge 4y ago
    > Its a political statement/dogtag for them. > maybe even virtue signaling Or maybe even, as they said quite plainly, "at-risk family members". Personally I wouldn't wear a mask any more; as others have said I think there comes a time where unless there's a specific heightened risk you have to accept that you either stop at some point or wear one for the rest of your life. That said, I have immediate family who are extremely immuno-suppressed. I either wear a mask, or every day I increase the risk of killing them. So I wear a mask. Sometimes the argument is pointless. The "other side" may even agree with you. Yet life often makes a mockery of our choices and forces behaviours upon us.
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By that you mean in public indoor spaces. "Don't you want to kill your family members?" No, not really. Just my personal choice. A comfortable mask isn't some great burden to me. The whole line of questioning feels strange, like someone incredulously saying "Do you plan on wearing pants for the rest of your life??"

techdragon 4y ago
I find it’s actually pretty good to compare it to sun protection. Kids used to run around in the sun without sunscreen, still can in some places/times to a certain amount… but we collectively sort of realised the risks and so most people (at least in Australia) use sunscreen to avoid the easiest cancer to avoid, Melanoma. There are people who have a natural immunity of sorts due to darker skin and melanin concentrations, there are people that deliberately expose themselves for perceived benefits like “getting a tan” because “it looks healthy” and there are older people who got lucky and ran around unprotected who think it’s a rip off by big sunscreen and don’t see the point while also no longer needing it due to age and lifestyle changes out of lots of direct UV exposure.
- blackshaw 4y ago
  Heaven only knows how humanity survived for 100,000 years while breathing air unmasked.
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
I mean I very much understand the other commenter line of questioning but any questions related to mask wearing will be highly dependent of where you are from. I’m from Western Europe and mask wearing both never was political, was well followed during the much more stringent restrictions we had at the peak of the epidemic and has virtually disappeared from the past two years. It’s a very different attitude that what it seems to be in the state but our relationship with diseases is already culturally extremely different than what it is in the USA.
lambo4bkfast 4y ago
A mask cannot be more comfortable than no-mask unless you're in some very cold environment. Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants is off by orders of magnitude.
- blackshaw 4y ago
  I'd honestly rather not wear pants for the rest of my life than go back to wearing a mask every day.
  - tomcam 4y ago
    I think you’ve invented a new kind of porn
- schiffern 4y ago
  >A mask cannot be more comfortable than no-mask As you may note, that's not what I said. > Suggesting that a mask in 2022 has anywhere near the utility of pants Didn't say that either. It's simply strange to me that people get so worked up over it, just like it would be strange if people got super worked up over wearing pants. In my experience, absent of the 'hot/stuffy mask face' it's no big deal. YMMV

lambo4bkfast 4y ago

Its a political statement/dogtag for them.

GoldenMonkey 4y ago
maybe even virtue signaling.
- kcartlidge 4y ago
  > Its a political statement/dogtag for them. > maybe even virtue signaling Or maybe even, as they said quite plainly, "at-risk family members". Personally I wouldn't wear a mask any more; as others have said I think there comes a time where unless there's a specific heightened risk you have to accept that you either stop at some point or wear one for the rest of your life. That said, I have immediate family who are extremely immuno-suppressed. I either wear a mask, or every day I increase the risk of killing them. So I wear a mask. Sometimes the argument is pointless. The "other side" may even agree with you. Yet life often makes a mockery of our choices and forces behaviours upon us.
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