Does refusing to wear a mask make a person selfish 🤔?

[Celtero]

Somewhat, but it's also selfish to force somebody else to wear something that makes them uncomfortable in order to marginally protect against a disease that isn't much worse than the flu.

[MDollarBill]

More likely, it makes them informed. There is no study on the planet that shows that masks will stop something as small as a virus. It is is nothing but meaningless virtue signalling.

[MzAsh]

Yeah. I’ve had quite an experience over the summer as someone who enforced masks in an establishment. These people are selfish and stubborn personalities. They’ve used it to identify with a certain political stance, and they want to be disruptive and rebellious. All they’re being is ignorant and immature.

[cunnilinguist]

Why should I risk my own health by wearing a mask? I don't need a lowered efficiency immune system because I breathe CO2 trapped between my mouth and the mask back in, instead of fresh O2, thank you very much, not to mention the strain on my lungs.

If anything people need to start learning science. If they did they would've started applying techniques that give people conscious control of the immune system, like the Wim Hof Method. Put simply, the WHM makes your body release Epinephrine, which in turn leads to increased production of Interleukin-10 and other anti-inflammatory agents in the body while at the same time it dampens the pro-inflammatory Cytokine response. Also the accompanying hyperventilation floods the blood with oxygen and also results in a higher number of white blood cells. The white blood cells fight disease and the oxygen ensures faster recovery.

So as a net effect, you don't get sick; if you do have some mild symptoms you recover much faster. And more importantly, you do not get inflamed lungs and you don't DIE from pneumonia when you have Coronavirus!

Stop wearing masks and teach people some science so they stop dying. The studies were published a decade ago, and T'ummo has been in practice for thousands of years by the Tibetan. There's nothing new about it. Haven't people noticed that they live in the tallest mountain range on Earth 5000m above sea level in the ice and snow and all they ever wear is a single piece of cloth? And you people live in tropical climates and you catch the flu. Nepal is right next door to China, yet the number of Covid-deaths per million people is 65 in the country, 118th place in the world. Less than 2,000 dead out of 30M. While on the other side of the planet, Peru also has 30M people, the difference is that they have 40,000 covid-deaths. Wonder why. And this insane ratio doesn't even put Peru in the top 10!https://www.youtube.com/embed/mxCGDFlH1_k

[Minxxie]

YES! I had Covid-19 this summer and it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. I also have asthma so if I ended up with scarring in my lungs from it I would have been severely disabled with a much shorter life span.

I saw my grandparents while I was contagious and I didn't know yet but we socially distanced and wore masks so now I still have grandparents. If you think it's "just like the flu." you need to stop living in denial. It is terrifying and painful and the symptoms last for months for most people.

Your lungs ache in the most disturbing way and you start gasping for breath. Then when you think the worst of it is over you get even worse. For me, it was a migraine that felt like my eyes were being scooped out with a hot spoon while my head was being squished in a vice. I threw up three times from the pain and then went into shock and passed out.

When I got to the hospital they had to give me so much pain medication that I was totally high and I had to have a chest X-ray immediately because if my lungs had been permanently damaged I would have needed assistance breathing and possibly a double lung transplant. There are young healthy teenagers who have needed new lungs because of this virus, it's all up to luck.

I am young, healthy, active, and I don't smoke and this virus put me through absolute hell. You may think you are tough and strong and it's just the flu but you have no idea what it would do to you. Everyone is different and a lot of it is sheer luck whether you will live, be permanently disabled, or die once you get it.

I don't know what I would have done if I had caused the agonizing deaths of my grandparents just because I was too stubborn to wear a mask. Is the whatever frivolous political point you are trying to prove really worth human lives? The virus is no joke and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[fxllenone]

Well, not really. Wearing a mask to protect yourself from a widespread virus, is like treating ADHD with cough syrup or caffeine. It helps but only about 10-15%.

Now a lot of people state that 'experts' say a mask is very effective. Some experts do say that while others disagree. There is probably not a single thing that every expert agrees on in the field of biology, psychology, physics, and others.

Society in general (especially if they are not scientists themselves) treat science as if it's a religious book that is meant to be followed without thinking for yourself. Science is evergrowing, and truth is always relative. The sign of an open mind is skepticism, not fear, obedience, and paranoia. One of the most respected psychologists (Erik Erikson) did not even have a degree, think about that for a second.

But you are probably looking at those big numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths, and worrying all the time, ignoring the fact that there isn't a reliable test out there for Covid-19, and most deaths are related to Covid-19, they aren't because of Covid-19.


So what does it all mean?

1. It means that no one really knows who has Covid-19 and who does not.

2. It means that the deaths you are seeing are deaths that probably would've happened, no matter if there was a virus out there or not. Covid-19 simply hastened the death of those poor people maybe by a few months, or an year.

So, misreading data, panicking, harassing, fear mongering, and using a virus to attack political opponents isn't something you should do, not doing those things would be you ACTUALLY being a responsible citizen!

[Ozanne]

Yes, it's selfish. Someone not wearing a mask is basically saying, "You are alright to protect me against your germs, and that's great and everything, but while you do that, I'll go on breathing fresh air and being comfortable."

I equate this to employee-scabs who cross picket lines. While people are taking a stand against a terrible employer who isn't paying them enough or their workplace is lacking what most people benefit from, they will sacrifice pay to stand outside and strike - only to have some co-worker scabs who cross the picket line to go to work and get paid, only to later reap the benefits of those who sacrificed.

So yes, it's not a tall order to wear a mask for a few minutes when you're in close quarters someplace. By all means, go ahead and take it off when no one is within several meters, but otherwise, yes, it's selfish to do it, and it's only prolonging the problem.

[Levin]

All those things anti-maskers warned about are coming to pass.

Namely, stricter and indefinite lockdowns
Wholesale destruction of civil liberties.
Health and vaccination passports being planned
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/05/apps-now-being-developed-for-global-vaccine-passport.aspx
Further redirection of wealth from poor to rich.

@rjroy3 is right. The word selfish is being used as a tool of control. Good behaviour should come from one's conscience, never from social pressure. And anything that is destructive to oneself (such as mask wearing) is never good for society.

[rjroy3]

I like to make distinctions. There's self interest, enlightened self interest and selfish.

Selfish is when you do something good for you that is at the detriment of others.

Enlightened self interest is mutually beneficial situations.

Self interest is when it was in your interest to do so but never hurt anyone.

I consider this self interest at worse, enlightened self interest in some cases. The state imposing measures on the people is only doable if too many people bend to them.

With enough people refusing to do so the people win and the state loses. So in that case some people refusing to wear masks is good for everyone for the sake of preserving our freedoms.

In most cases it's merely self interest, because unless they have covid the mask is providing no unique benefit for guarding others from covid. Therefore this is not a selfish act.

[BALLERINA297]

CHOOSING TO NOT WEAR IT DOES NOT MAKE US SELFISH JUST LIKE HAVING A CURFEW AT 8PM DOES NOT MAKE US 5YEARS OLD I MOVED OUT OF MY MOTHERS HOUSE FOR A REASON AND SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO EITHER ONE #FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND #FREEDOM OF CHOICE WE SHOULD HAVE THE CHOICE TO NOT WEAR IT.

[FatherJack]

No it does not... most on here have been indoctrinated and believe EVERY word of the lying lamestream " media " BS narrative , constant 24/7 fear porn bombardment.
The hospitals round my way are NOT as the " media " & " government " have falsely made out , management have told staff to keep mouths SHUT or your job is on the line !! Yet others needing treatment are being denied this... as a result some people , including one known to me , are now going to die from Stage 4 cancers , those self righteous sheep bleating for permanent lockdowns are the selfish ones. Thumb me down all yer like... this is the planned Great Reset , and the sheeple are willingly walking into the coming slaughterhouse , those thinking I'm wrong , I wish I was !!

[jshm2]

No. It makes them a fucking idiot.

Surgeons and nurses even before the pandemic wear masks for double digit hours a week. Then you have fuckwits who "cannot" wear one for a few hours while outside.

The same sort of dipshits that feel a gun is "necessary" to carry during those few hours outside.

[NamerOfStars]

Other way around. There's a pandemic going on, of a very contagious virus with very low lethality. It's already crossed species borders multiple times; it clearly can't be waited out. This pandemic, like all pandemics, will only end when herd immunity is reached. Wearing a mask that slows the spread is prolonging the suffering the lockdowns cause. Extending this misery for the sake of your own fear and greed for social status is as selfish as it gets.

[msc545]

It means the person doesn't care about their own safety or the safety of others and simply wants to do what they want. Is a disgusting habit and one that really should be outlawed but has not been completely. It is not different than driving a car drunk and asserting that they have a right to drive the car drunk even when nobody clearly has a right to do this.

[Anonymous]

No, it absolutely does not, because wearing a mask does not at all help prevent someone healthy from getting covid. If masks work, why social distancing? If social distancing works, why do we all have to wear masks? Also, if the number of people who have gotten the flu this year has gone down, then why haven’t the numbers for covid cases in states that have been locked down also gone down?


If UV rays kill the virus, why should people be forced to stay inside, when UV rays kill the virus in about as much time than it takes to scramble an egg?


I know, not just think, that this is the trend. You know how each year has a trend? Yep... this is the trend. My family had covid and were one of the first cases in the US!

[Madhatter920]

Yes, 100%. They are putting people with weak immune systems at risk of serious injury or death because they are slightly uncomfortable.

[kimbim]

Here in Denmark we're pretty good at it. The muslims are not too good, but the rest of us are. So I generally think it's related to intelligence and also proves that mask are effective. Immigrants have twice the covid of Danish people

[RingOfFire]

Does driving a car make someone selfish? More people have been killed by cars than by the CCP virus times 1,000.

Three million Americans die every year, year after year after year not even counting the deaths from the virus. All of life involves risk. The only way to avoid risk is to never be born. In the end 100% of people die.

[Hannah_Ann_Linge]

It could be out of selfishness due to the lack of caring for some. However, for others, it could mean they think the whole covid ordeal is a scam. They think it’s pointless to wear one; not because they’re selfish, but because why would you everyday for a year if it’s not even as hyped up as the government claims it to be.

[menina]

Yes of course. By not wearing a mask they're risking their lives and putting other people's lives in danger.

[Anonymous]

On one hand people say: "I will do anything for America! Call me and I will defend our Nation!"

On the other hand, when asked to wear a mask: "But I don't want to! It feels uncomfortable, I want to breathe fresh air and my own germs will hurt me if I wear a mask!"

[Astarlessnightsky]

Its putting your own convinience over the lives and health of your fellow citizen.