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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I was at a theme park yesterday and got harassed because my wife and I were wearing masks while waiting in line for rides. I have a kidney transplant and my wife had cancer in 2016 so we're both immunocompromised. Just whose fun are we ruining?

[–] bluemellophone 47 points 4 days ago

People who identify with bullies

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 300 points 4 days ago (9 children)

it's crazy how conservatives are just an opposition party. Are the dems for something? Then conservatives must be against it!

they're all just children with severe behavioral disorders

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 107 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Conservatives often answer polls in favor of positive things, but publicly state their opposition to Democrats trying to do those things and elect Republicans who actively tear down anything that works. It is madness.

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[–] ghostdoggtv 39 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They're an opposition party that's prevented the people of the United States from passing any significant legislation since 2010. We don't have a country anymore.

Americans are a stateless people thanks to dark money. Buckle up.

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[–] andros_rex 31 points 4 days ago

The way that people react to safety guidelines like rebellious teenagers would be almost hilarious if it didn’t get them killed.

I see so many “rebel canners” that are proud that they do shit like dry canning, because the FDA tells them not to. It’s so cool to get botulism because you don’t like daddy government telling you what to do.

The mask bans seem to be that same kind of childish reaction - “you made us wear masks! We’re going to make you not wear masks!”

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[–] FlyingSquid 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would appreciate the warning to absolutely not eat in that restaurant.

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[–] teamevil 204 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

Look I fucking hated the masks but also get why we needed them and wore mine. Why the fuck does anyone care if someone else is wearing one...that for them. It like being offended someone is wearing Jordans...it's not your feet.

Leave people be and if I'm afraid I'm going to catch the plague then I'm wearing a mask.

And people can say what they will about effectiveness All I know is for 2 years I wore one and didn't catch a damn cold.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] sudo42 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Somehow wearing masks became political.

It was Trump.

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[–] ameancow 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, taking precautions to protect your health and the health of other does sound like anti-freedom. Is it still legal to wash your hands in the USA, or are they cracking down on that too? It's surprising that kind of stuff was allowed to continue for so long.

[–] Bytemeister 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] FreakinSteve 48 points 4 days ago (7 children)

This is what happens when you don't club fascist idiots with baseball bats whenever you see them. Now tell me about how we have to protect their "free speech".

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[–] Psaldorn 125 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Your personal right to not spread germs is being taken away.

And the idiots cheer for it. It really is unfathomable.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It puts the whole climate change “controversy” in perspective for me. It’s not controversial, these people just have a death wish. It’s best if we just move along without them, where possible, and don’t let them get in our way.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 days ago

I'd question the food handling practices of such a place

[–] Snapz 41 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Stop posting shit without visible dates...

[–] jh34 38 points 4 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago

I can't even imagine being so insecure that I am threatened by someone else wearing a medical mask.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US is a funny country. It does not behave like a highly advanced and highly literate society.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 3 points 2 days ago

That’s because it’s not. America is a brain dead billionaire, a struggling wage slave, and a fascist in a trench coat.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for bird flu. Shit's gonna be wild.

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[–] Stupidmanager 77 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Let me fix that for you doc: Signs you shouldn’t eat at a restaurant because it’s likely unsafe, getting banned from entering because you’re wearing a mask.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I say it every day: I FUCKING HATE PROPAGANDISTS!

We have those assholes to thank for this... Gotta keep Republican voters, what better way than to make them frothing with rage at whatever Democrats suggest we do...

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

FORCING people to wear MASKS is ANTIFREEDOM!

-Republicans trying to make Divorce and Contraception and Gay Sex and Interracial Marriage and Women's Healthcare and Kid's Healthcare Illegal.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (15 children)

In a effin airport where people are wearing masks everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

The doctor should have rambled about facial recognition

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