What's your reason for not wearing a mask?

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If you don't wear a mask, that is.

nightdrot · Accepted Answer

Did not vote - though I lean toward "F." The difference being that I wear a mask and I don't give a fig if anyone else wears one or not. It makes not an iota of difference to me and more than anything I would give my right arm if people would stop nagging and whining and get on with life.

Illustrative was the Great Trump Mask Controversy of a few months back. This I say as no fan of Mr. Trump. Did anyone really get up in the morning wondering and worrying if President Trump was wearing a face mask? Is the American public really such a bovine herd than unless they saw the President - or for that matter Governors, in a supreme act of hypocrisy, Newsome and Cuomo - they would not be able to decide if they wanted to wear a mask? Seriously?

New flash. Masks help - and as I say I wear one even though they make me look fat and don't match anything in my wardrobe (yes, that was a joke people) - but they are not fullproof and will not make the mean old pandemic go away. Moreover, as human beings are imperfect and imperfectible, the sneaky old germs are apt to find ways to get around them. (For example, there is nothing quite so fun as seeing the proud mask wearer - who does not use the mask to cover their nose. Duh!)

Improvements even with the mask - as so many parts of Europe where they are often mandatory demonstrated - are likely to be at the margins. The public ever failing to learn the lesson - there are no easy answers, there are no perfect answers. Some problems are just difficulties with no solution but which must simply be managed.

Fortunately, in this case, there looks to be an answer - the vaccines. Even then, that perfect and easy answer is likely not to last. Strains of the pandemic may develop that are immune to the vaccine. It may have some unintended side effects.

Most of all will be the grand good fun that begins when rational mask wearing humans begin a political broohaha of unholy proportions over who gets the vaccine first and so on. There will be nothing quite so edifying as watching as millions of sober, sane, rational, civic minded mask wearing citizens begin to scratch and claw and climb over each other in a bloody rush to be the first in line to sate their hypochondria and aggravate their paranoia. It will be a spectacle, to say no more.

Bottom line, I wear a mask because - although it is a minor annoyance - it is no skin off my nose. It may or may not help at the margins and given the relative costs and benefits, it is not so much an inconvenience that I won't do it.

What I do grow weary of is the pious "holier than thou" types who constantly nag their fellow citizens to wear a mask. As much to allow the naggers to show how noble they are as to hope that if you you nag and whine long enough, the non-wearers may be dragged, kicking and screaming, into wearing them.

My only hope is that, when this is over, some genius proposes somewhere that the Federal government be given the authority to tell people what they can and cannot wear. A power it does not currently have and is why Mr. Biden's alleged COVID plan included asking - NOT telling - Governors to require masks.

Imagine the howls of outrage from civic minded pious mask wearers - ardent advocates of rights that they are - when THAT proposal comes around. Suddenly, the idea of wearing a mask may not seem quite so fun anymore - whatever the motive.

Galieator · Accepted Answer

I wear a mask and I'll explain why.

I don't wear it because the media said I should or because I'm "trapped in fear".

I wear it because I believe the nurses and doctors in the hospital my mom has been attending for cancer treatments, who cite actual evidence that they're more effective than this herd immunity bull that every anti-mask Karen has been spouting on Facebook.

I wear it because when my pregnant friend had to visit the hospital one city over, the doctors reported a covid test rate higher than anywhere else in my country.

I wear it because when my Province hit its first wave, everyone followed the guidelines and we shrunk to a single case. Then when people started to become so lax that they began traveling and refusing to wear masks or isolate, our cases have skyrocketed to the highest in the country.

I wear a mask because I live in a community, and I think it more human to put community over selfish individualism.

I wear a mask because it's ethical and practical, no matter how much of a sheep you think me to be. Rather be a sheep who holds concern, than a self-obsessed spoiled person who thinks people needlessly dying is better than having to wear a pice of cloth over your face. Many will say they find it difficult to breathe with a mask on, and I tell them that it's better than living with a ventilator tube down your gullet.

All you're being asked to do is wear a mask, not chop your balls off

SpiderManFan2002 · Accepted Answer

I totally relate to where you’re coming from in your update.

I wear a mask whenever I go out, even if it’s just to the local convenience store. My brother and dad are clinically vulnerable so I’m glad it’s a requirement at my brother’s school to wear a mask or be sent home.

I didn’t think others would be so inconsiderate and selfish, all due to a little bit of discomfort but humanity hasn’t come as far as we thought it would in 2020 I guess🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

SavageGirl101 · Accepted Answer

The people who don’t wear masks are the reason why we are still in a pandemic... istg y’all some dummies

ThomasTKay · Answer

I don’t wear a mask and will not because as a logical free thinker, I feel I would be dishonest in giving credibility to a false sense of security based on several facts.

1. A mask (even N19 level) cannot filter things on the micron scale of viruses.

2. Being exposed or becoming ill with a new viruses is not new or all of the sudden a foreign idea. It’s actually necessary in order to prevent atrophy of our immune systems. It’s how we are designed as human beings. It’s actually healthy.

3. Freedom to choose is still paramount, at least in the USA. The founding fathers saw liberty as so important that they traded guaranteed safety (tyranny) for dangerous liberty. The constitution and bill of rights as the supreme law of the land correctly reflects this for good reason, as the individual has rights to act and to disagree with the majority or collective.

4. COVID-19 has a mortality rate of less than 1%, killing only those who already were health compromised to the level that they would have just as easily passed from any other respiratory infection. COVID-19 is on the lighter side of respiratory viral vectors.

None of what I’ve said here is a conspiracy theory. It’s sound thought without any emotional play. Much of it is fact if someone cares enough to look into it and not just trust the “official narrative” as propagated by the dishonest media.

guesswhoseback · Answer

I wear a mask despite believing it at best helps contain 10% of the transmission rates. It doesn’t protect you from getting covid but if you have covid if slightly limits the spread. I’m not a “anti masker” but I can see why people are pissed. It’s a fucking porous cloth mask that does not stop the virus from getting out. It can slightly limit aerosols when somebody coughs or sneezes.

What I’m more pissed about is not having readily available free covid rapid results testing at this point. I’ve been tested 10 times now. I wanted to go to Thanksgiving with a peace of mind being around older people. Most of the clinics are delayed by days. Most for them charge. The last one I went to ran out of rapid results testing. I’ve tested negative 10 times now.

What I’m most furiously pissed of is at the fucking outrageous disgusting libtard hypocrites pushing lockdown and limiting travel. Governor Newsom of California had a sit down dinner (no masks) with 20 other socialites, many of them from the medical community! The democrat mayor of Denver told everybody not to travel and he himself book tickets to visit his family in Louisiana for Thanksgiving! And the mass BLM protests... don’t even get me started.

Why do you support such liberal hypocrites? You don’t have to vote republican but when you voted Democrat you do nothing but support liberal elitist who are laughing at you in private.

gotc147 · Answer

Because they clearly do not do what they are advertised to do.

A 2015 study showed that cloth masks are only 3% effective at stopping the spread of viruses (statistically zero).

Compliance with mask mandates is (unfortunately) very high both in the US and in Europe, in the 85% neighborhood. Yet, both are surging in cases.

As of this writing, there is exactly ZERO scientific evidence that masks stop COVID particals. There is a plethora of evidence that the masks stop the droplets that come out of the nose and mouth (which is what they are designed to do) but this is incorrectly used as evidence that virus particles within those droplets are stopped as well. As of yet, that connection is unproven and all evidence indicates that is not the case.

COVID has a survival rate about as high as the flu, probably higher, given available data. It is much more easily spread than the flu, but there is no effective, practical way to mitigate that for the entire population.

People are very easy to scare into compliance with ridiculous things. I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of the population would line up to be impaled on a spike like Vlad Dracula did to people if they were told it would cure COVID.

Not_Average · Answer

I think free thought is now being described as conspiracy theories. It’s a cheap way to minimize anyone who challenges your point of view. If you believe everything you’re being told by the media and the government, then you’re not very intelligent. Just my opinion. But yes, I do wear a mask out of respect for others. Having said that, I realize that most of these cloth masks are still highly ineffective. It’s more of a psychological impact. If it freaks people out, then I genuinely don’t mind putting it on. My thoughts are... if you’re at risk, then stay inside and let the rest of us continue our lives.

cunnilinguist · Answer

Breathing in your own CO2 while depriving yourself of oxygen is going to compromise your immune system, making you more prone to inflammation (and death). Plus viruses pass through 99% of masks anyway, like grains of sand through a fishing net.

Not to mention the fact that funnily people never used to wear face masks before. 80,000 people died in flu in the 2018 flu season in the US alone. At the moment 280,000 registered deaths are attributed to Covid in the 19/20 and the 20/21 flu season combined, instead of the expected 160,000. The reason it's almost double the normal figure is because the government decided to put down every death where someone sneezes before they die as covid. If you die in flu (not covid, but say last year's strain) they will still mark it as covid. You died of a heart attack but you coughed an hour before, covid. You died of gunshot wounds but you had a high temperature at the time of death, covid. You can't die of an asthma attach these days without being a "covid victim".
You know what? I can't wait for the statistics to come out for this year, showing the number of people that died from asthma, or diabetes, or heart attacks, etc. I bet the numbers magically hit the floor. I wonder why.

Anonymous · Answer

Posting a bunch of stupid inaccurate memes doesn't make you any less a conspiratorial propagandist, nor do your fallacies of ad hominem, ad apriorism, and ad verecundiam.

There are some people like you, who don't understand microwaves and what they can or can't do to the human body. At a great enough distance most won't perceive effects, but no technician, engineer, biologist, doctor, or whatever faux "authority" you could imagine would live near one. These towers are being built near residentials and people will be near the field. It is true that most people likely won't be affected, but it is very disingenuous and or ignorant of you to say it can't cause cancer or health risk. Long term exposure with the surrounding field will cause physical damage.

A PHD in Biology is not equivalent to a PHD is Mechanics, Material Science, Virology, or other pertinent fields, this of course was one of your many fallacies. So you can keep taking fantasy pills through memes or you wake up to your glaring ignorance an actually learn something. The cloth mask most people use do nothing but ease their ignorance. It's a placebo for public safety. I am in the Medical Field, so you can keep your ignorance to yourself.

Teyfet · Answer

I wear a mask.

The ones who don't wear one are under the delusion that they need to wear a mask for their own protection. Wrong. Masks are worn mainly to protect others - the same reason surgeons wear them rather than the patients in the OR. The intelligent (& considerate) among us wear masks because we don't want to take a chance on infecting others, & because we don't want to cause hospitals to crumple under the weight of Covid-19 patients.

Frankly, we don't care if the maskless live or die, we just don't want them infecting us or slamming our hospitals. Unfortunately, when they get it, they panic & go take up beds in the hospital rather than following the suggested cure of their Idiot-in-Chief: injecting bleach (the ultimate panacea).

Lliam · Answer

I have a medical exemption. It's called intelligence.

What's your reason for not wearing a mask?

The idea that this latest form of covid (unlike all the other cold and flu covids) is so deadly that people have to reject what it means to be human is unscientific and absurd. People who have bought into the official narrative are the conspiracy theorists. They actively reject the overwhelming amount of study by the highest ranking experts in the world.

It's actually funny how the virtue signaling, face diaper-wearing Branch Covidians who want to FORCE everyone else to comply with their wishes try to turn it around and act like THEY are the victims.

ChattyGuy43 · Answer

I dont wear a mask because I am not in a community transmitted infected area of New Zealand by COVID-19 so I can walk around without a mask, I still take precautions tho of washing my hands and socal distancing. New Zealand has done the best of any country in the world with how we have delt with COVID and the other countries need to take notice at our example

AlexanderAnttila · Answer

Because no matter how furiously people who wear masks bully those who do not so that they may feel intellectually superior for doning a piece of cloth, research into its effectiveness isn't in agreement. I've seen many reports in my own country that leans towards them not doing much good, and some that say that they do. As with every single thing these days the issue is politicized.

We have known from day one that the virus survives on flat surfaces for three days, so oral contamination isn't even its main source of spreading.

Louistruman19 · Answer

Fun facts:  -99.999% survival rate if you have covid. You have a lotteries chance of dying even if you're old.  -Most people probably have had the coronavirus in their life before but thought it was the common cold and a lot of us get it pretty much every year without knowing. -masks are ineffective against covid

Anonymous · Answer

NYT: Study Finds That Masks Do Not Protect Wearers, But You Need To Wear Them Anyway “The study’s conclusion flies in the face of other research... “ ''The study was comprised of 4,862 total participants; about half were directed to wear masks in public, and the other half were told not to. Through antibody testing, it was found that COVID-19 occurred in 42 participants (1.8%) who wore masks, and in 53 participants (2.1%) who did not wear masks – the “control participants.” The researchers concluded that the difference between the groups was statistically insignificant.''

najekim · Answer

Pretty much forced to wear one here otherwise one could get a $100 ticket for the "first offense." Just recently read a Danish study that was done and concluded that wearing masks will not stop a person from getting COVID, but will help an infected person from spreading it.

RingOfFire · Answer

#1 many medical experts say that masks have no value in protecting anyone against the virus

#2 the mask is a symbol of the dominance of government over the free will of the people. The Democrats are using totalitarian practices to dominate our free will with their unconstitutional edicts using the pandemic as an excuse. People are SICK AND TIRED of these little wannabe dictators. People have a right to decide for themselves whether or not they want to wear a mask. The government has no right to force them to wear them. That is a decision for the individual to make. How dare anyone tell me that they know what is better for me than I know for myself? You wear a mask if you want. What I do is none of your business.

Dreamy2020 · Answer

Stupidity mostly. I wear masks. I care about me and everyone around me. If you can't use a simple task as wearing masks so that the disease doesn't spread, then you are an idiot. Just saying: "The survival of the fittest".

RolandCuthbert · Answer

I can't say anything, but these fuckers are certifiable.

That's why we need a referendum on splitting up the nation. They will go back to believing in reality and truth because their lives are dependent upon it. The problem is that the very act of trying to find common ground is seen as being "liberal". So objective truth has to go out the window. . . because a liberal will agree it exists.

markthespot · Answer

I do wear a mask, I hate them really really bad. I can hardly breath through the mask and I can't understand better then 95% of what other people are saying that wear the mask being a bit deaf from service related issues it makes it hard on me trying to communicate and pisses me off,!!! BUT, I do wear it anyway because its not rocket science. It keeps everyone about as safe as we can get a this point.

Anonymous · Answer

For some it's ignorance. The sort who get their "news" and "information" from ridiculous sources, but they have pledged their intellect to these sources.

For some it's definitely that they have an empathy defect. They do not give one tiny fuck about other people.

There is some overlap. Like the ones who think the mask is to protect them and don't wear one because they think they are bearing the risk alone. (Ignorance, and selfishness together.)

smahala1991 · Answer

If I'm in a bigger crowd like Walmart or a major store or restaurant then I wear one. But if I'm at work I don't because I'm a dishwasher and I rarely leave the kitchen or have any contact with customers. Plus the managers don't wear one, but they make the waitresses wear one.

oddwaffle · Answer

People are too dumb to realize that if they get into an accident during covid, they will die on the ambulance because there is no more bed in the ER for them.

You don't have to get covid to die of covid. People just need to take your place in the hospital and you will die on the street.

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