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People who identify with bullies

There was a little town next to where i work, and every year they have a "funny" theme. That year it was global warming, and they set up some mannequins that wore winter clothing, but also scuba gear. They were alse wearing masks, because it was middle of covid.

Even if i was just driving by or just stopped shortly there, i saw on multiple occasions how people ripped the masks of the mannequins angrily and threw it on the ground. Masks somehow are very offensive to people.

Similar story with my wife. She had cancer and should not catch something as serious as Covid. So, everytime we are among a lot of people, ecpecially in places with bad ventilation, we wear masks.

I haven't kept count how many times we were talked to about that. The amount of conspiracy mythics among them was rather high. And not always were people polite.

This is really idiotic. As if even other diseases, which required such precautions, haven't existed before. Too many stupid people around.

It's amazing how the people who are expressing their freedom not to wear a mask get really offended by people who express their freedom by wearing a mask.

It's starting to make me think it's not about freedom...

Antifa did nothing wrong.

Only thing that is approved is full spectrum light bulb up the ass, and Lysol shots with a Clorox chaser.

All I know is for 2 years I wore one and didn’t catch a damn cold.

I've cohabited with someone with a major immunity problem and had to take normal, established-before-covid guidelines for making sure I don't bring back a virus that would kill someone I care about. I wore a mask for months going out, washed my hands, avoided crowds. Never got sick.

So that was before covid. Imagine how it feels seeing the whole world be advised to do the same thing, and absolutely losing their collective mind about it, while millions of people died.

It will never make sense. I mean, logically I have studied psychology and have come to understand the mechanics of people's irrational, emotional reactions. What doesn't make sense is how we elected a clown that led our nation in the direction of chaos and followed his example.

Why the fuck does anyone care if someone else is wearing one

It's because all people are emotional first, and many people are stupid, too.

Seeing a mask makes them think about the pandemic, disease, mortality, death, all that heavy stuff. That feels bad. Rather than deal with that in a healthy way, they can just lash out at the thing that's bringing the bad-feels to the foreground. That is stupid. That's yelling at the smoke detector instead of doing something about the fire.

Accepting that wearing a mask is a reasonable choice means accepting a bunch of other uncomfortable things.

This can also go down the "in group good, outgroup bad" route. Belief is social. People do shit to feel like they're part of the group. Somehow wearing masks became political.

You have to get into the mindset: this isn't about making sense, it's about retribution/revenge. During the pandemic, there was a period where to go certain places you had to wear a mask and/or be vaccinated. That was because there was data saying those things inhibited the spread of the virus, but many conservatives felt they shouldn't have to because of personal freedom. Now they feel turnabout is fair play, and are saying you can't go certain places if you're wearing a mask. It doesn't matter that they argued for personal freedom, this is retribution.

It used to be that antivax people held those views because they thought vaccinations caused bad things. Those people still exist, but now there are a bunch for whom it's all about personal freedom, and only because they were told they had to get a COVID vaccine.

I always say conservatives have oppositional defiant disorder. How else could you constantly oppose things that everyone else thinks are a better way to live?

Or at least the source https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 June 22, 2024

Probably a repost account. They do that crap on purpose.

Nobody's gonna tell us we have to wash our hands before handling other people's food!

I forgot the comedian's name, but he had a bit about Confederate flags in the south. He said he found them useful because they told him which places he should avoid. That way he didn't waste time expecting them to act normal.

It's self-labeling... unfortunately similar to nutcases flying American flags on pickup trucks.