Dunno if this has been brought up yet but: if you’re still masking and other people see that, you can make them deeply uncomfortable with themselves because they know that they should be doing it too. Sure, some people are well adjusted enough to accept that they’re not a perfect person, but others are going to cope as hard as they can by aggressively insisting that you are the one whose wrong, not them. Whether that’s by going full COVID denial or pretending that people still aren’t dying from it or any of the other things people do, and you can bet they’re going to resolve the cognitive dissonance in part by taking it out on you, the person who caused them to feel it.

Same reason people get mad a vegans.

For a long time since the long lull in summer 2021 I’d stopped wearing masks in most places. I’ve been monitoring the biobot.io data over the past couple months, though, and now I’m heavily inclined to snap back into all the precautions: N95s, being obsessive about air exchange, 6-feet radii, sensing how long people have been in a room for (especially if they’re talking or breathing heavily), sticking to associations other people who are also willing to be cautious.

There’s a good chance that Covid-19 becomes a persistent ravage over the careless, but it is possible to thrive (and avoid other diseases, too) with the right precautions.

As someone who still masks everywhere because I don’t want it again (again), I thought good ole Freddie’s view explains the pushback mitigators have gotten.

Masking in public is a genuine act of solidarity :party-parrot-mask:

"Because masking is hard and everyone decided covid is over and the government isn’t going to save us. Anyway, I’m totally dedicated to Socialism which totally doesn’t face all the same hurdles. "