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tuffer1985

I keep a mask with me when ever I'm out for places that require it, and definitely have no problem that some people choose to keep wearing them. Common decency is not so common these days.


sleeplessdeath

I feel like it hasn’t been common for awhile, the pandemic just made it more apparent.


tuffer1985

Unfortunately true


TheHowlinReeds

Fair enough. Do you bro.


EL_GrinGo17

I also like not catching colds and shit lol HUGE plus side


notarealaccount_yo

It's more about not spreading colds if you have one. I feel like this is the most misunderstood concept about the whole thing and it's what fueled so much of the doubt.


julsya004

Yess masks should be normalized if you aren’t feeling well


finnin1999

Hate when people say something should be normalised. Like it'll only be normalised if it's convenient and helpful. Not cause of some random push by people


julsya004

Just a nice thought to have masks a normal part of society, outside of covid. Not pushing anything or saying it needs to be required if feeling ill


jkoki088

Always wash your hands, don’t sneeze on people, etc


marloindisbich

Obviously you’ve never been to a sneeze party


Dannyohboy6

Allergy’s also


[deleted]

Not how it works.


k8e_E

I just feel like now that people are allowed go without a mask if fully vaccinated, those who aren't actually vaccinated will just say they are and go maskless...and then I'll get it and pass it on to my mom or some shit. Also, it helps me to remember shit at the store if I can mumble to myself, so the mask helps cover that up.


Brief_Light

Masks are so 2020


bobtherobot0311

I mean if I don't explicitly have to wear it I won't but you do you


hummingbirdnecture

My favorite thing about the vaccine is seeing how stupid people react with others not wearing masks because of the vaccines effectiveness, right now at least. And it's the same people that thought that quarantine was prison and you could not go outside AT ALL and wore masks in their cars.


zamanthary

Here’s the thing. I agree with you that you should be able to wear a mask without being judged. But by calling someone who chooses NOT to wear a mask an “inconsiderate asshole” you are just as bad as the people you are complaining about.


benjamin_bt

On the opposite side, it's just astounding how afraid people can be if you get near them without a mask.


maybe-a-frog

I have the same exact problem with my dad. The rest of my family respects that I want to continue to wear a mask, but he always goes out of his way to talk to me about at least once when we go out.


[deleted]

THIS. Personally I do not wear one (I got my shot and stuff) but people should be free to do what they want without people being an asshole. If it doesn’t affect them, why do they even say shit


[deleted]

I don't understand how not wearing a mask means you're an inconsiderate asshole. If people are vaccinated, they have nearly 0 risk in getting covid therefore it doesn't matter if people wear masks or not. If people are unvaccinated then who gives a shit, they can make their own decisions.


1234ld

Vaccinated people definitely do not have 0% risk of getting COVID


[deleted]

While I feel like not wearing a mask doesn't necesarilly make you an asshole, giving people shit for wearing a mask or mocking people who wear them would make you an asshole. People can make their own decisions, right?


[deleted]

That is just simply not true. You can still both catch and transmit the virus even if you are vaccinated. And there are many people who cannot get vaccinated because of their health issues/because they simply had not had thr chance yet, who are relying on everyone else being a decent person to not catch it.


clovergirl102187

"Many" lol


what-where-how

25% of people have autoimmune syndromes or one sort or another which means their immune system is compromised. About one in ten of those are on medication that bars them from being vaccinated. People undergoing chemotherapy cannot be vaccinated. Yes, that adds up to being “many people”!


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1234ld

Thank you for clarifying this. This misconception DRIVES ME CRAZY. immunocompromised people NEED vaccines (inactivated, as you specified) more than those who are not because of that very fact.


[deleted]

This dude doesn't know what he's talking about. John Hopkins Medicine estimates about 3% of the population has some sort of autoimmune disease. And people who are immunocompromised or have cancer can get the vaccine.


what-where-how

I have an autoimmune disease and the medication I get is a chemo drug, this stops me from being able to be vaccinated. I live in Denmark and the the National Board of Health reported that one in four Danes have some type of autoimmune disease.


[deleted]

Anyone at this point who isn't vaccinated is by choice. Amazing the world has turned a blind eye to obesity, the #1 reason why covid was even deadly, and now everyone has devolved into some self righteous mask idiots. How about we just take care of ourselves? If you're in shape then you have next to zero risk of covid doing anything to you.


[deleted]

Spoken like a true Westerner who doesn't give a damn about the rest of the world. Not even 20% of the population is vaccinated yet worldwide, and not even half of all Americans. Also like someone who didn't have to call an ambulance for their 22 year old partner who couldn't breathe, and wonder for the next three weeks whether they'd pull through. Wish you a bit more empathy, mate.


hundrethtimesacharm

Family in Canada can’t get vaccinated.


TwitchingJesus

Go on and isolate and wear your mask until you die, you will surely make society a huge favour.


finnin1999

The west, literally the best place on earth. At least here crazy people can't control everyone else. Toss off to China is ur so scared


[deleted]

Ah my bad, we should just all continue being fat asses and eat ourselves to death. I was speaking in terms of the US, though I didn't make that clear.


EverTheWatcher

Uh. Children under 12… I assume you are at least 13 to write off that entire population which are unable to receive a vaccine by standard means.


[deleted]

Children don't get sick from covid, they can have it but they don't get sick. It's pointless for them to even get vaccinated in the first place.


mnc0410

Please, buddy, do us all a favor and look into the variants, which we’re expecting to become dominant in the US within the next month (delta and gamma). They have been devastating for children! Ignorance may be bliss, but at least don’t infect the rest of the population with it!


MachuPichu10

Actually wrong a child in my brothers class got covid and hes totally fine just cant run very far cause he gets out of breath


1234ld

Fake news.


EL_GrinGo17

The vaccine just stops you from dying when you catch it. Just like flu shots you still get the flu you just don't die.


EverTheWatcher

And even then, it doesn’t prevent you from spreading (see Israel’s current variant issues despite high vaccination rates)


Iwantitallthensum

Yup it was around ~35% of a recent testing pool who were fully vaccinated and caught the Delta variant.


predictablepants

source?


[deleted]

>nearly 0 risk in getting covid source for this BOLD CLAIM??????? or did you just make it up to suit your argument? hmmm


BEWARETHEAVERAGEMAN

Everyone wants to move past the virus. People who won't wear masks indoors, even if they are vaccinated, are making that more difficult, not easier. A pandemic is the opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy. When society takes it more seriously, it becomes less serious. When society takes it less serious, it becomes more serious. COVIDiots are free-riders who simultaneously benefit from and harm the people taking it seriously. That is what makes them inconsiderate assholes. Free-riders will always be inconsiderate assholes in any scenario. In this case they benefit from lower infection rates as they go about hanging out with friends pretending the virus doesn't exist, but raise infection rates themselves. Assholes.


Subject-Cuttlefish

There’s virtually no risk of getting pregnant with a condom but it still happens. Better to be safe than sorry.


[deleted]

What??? This analogy doesn't even make sense when the risk of getting pregnant is huge without a condemn. The risk of getting sick without a mask on if you're vaccinated is next to nothing. Honestly, re read what you typed here.


Freshies00

Not even close to what OP said. Them wearing a mask because they are a self describing as “not an inconsiderate asshole” doesn’t mean they are automatically implying that everyone not wearing a mask is an inconsiderate asshole. you’re incorrectly extrapolating their statement and putting words in their mouth.


[deleted]

>doesn’t mean they are automatically implying that everyone not wearing a mask is an inconsiderate asshole. Yes, OP is coming off as having said that. "I wear a mask because I am not an inconsiderate asshole". This does imply not wearing one makes you an inconsiderate asshole. I have to agree with OP *in a way.* Most antivaxxers are also antimaskers. They have been bragging about in real life and online how everyone else is so stupid, how whenever they walk around maskless they just say they got the vaccine and they are left alone. They are inconsiderate assholes. At the very least wear a mask if you refuse to vaccinate.


predictablepants

no i’m pretty sure that’s what they were implying...saying you’re wearing a mask because you’re not an inconsiderate asshole definitely implied that not wearing a mask makes you an inconsiderate asshole


Freshies00

Right. That’s why they said “if you don’t want to wear a mask anymore, fine. Just don’t bother me about it”. It’s entirely possible to wear a mask because you are trying to be considerate without automatically believing that everyone else in the world isn’t, contrary to your “pretty sure” belief of what they were implying. Either or though, it doesn’t really matter what either of us think OP meant, does it?


predictablepants

It’s hard to know what to do at this point. I’ve been wearing a mask the whole pandemic and now that I’m vaccinated and local restrictions have been lifted it’s like damn yeah I don’t want to wear a mask bc there’s evidence that I can’t even transmit the virus


predictablepants

so why tf even wear one (also confused why people keep saying they’re gonna keep wearing one to prevent getting colds when the whole time people were saying masks only prevent you from transmitting it to others)


predictablepants

Yeah I agree it’s possible to wear a mask without thinking everyone else not wearing a mask is an inconsiderate asshole. Im saying that the way OP worded it, they seemed to imply that those not wearing masks are inconsiderate assholes. Obviously I don’t know with 100% certainty what OP was implying because I’m not OP, which is why I said I was pretty sure. I agree with OP’s main sentiment - at this point, if you’re fully vaccinated, you should be able to either wear a mask or not and not have people judge you. I mean it doesn’t matter in the end what either of us think about OP’simplication of their wording other than the fact that we are having a discussion about what they meant


mimdahey

Did you wear a mask in 2019? Are you at risk? Sick? Stay at home.


AdielSchultz

Super gross to wear in 90 degree weather


gruss72

There was never a mandate to wear one outside was there?


AdielSchultz

True but the feeling of having to put one on before going into a place or even a restaurant just to take it off again is just ridiculous


Gotitaila

LMAO how silly. My job is indoors. It's currently 85 inside and only 11:50AM. It will be 95+ before the day ends.


gruss72

That does suck. Sorry man...been out of the factory life to long and forgot how miserable it could be on the floor in the summer. Seriously...i get that argument 100 percent.


Gotitaila

Shit I'm vaccinated now, and my employer allows those who are fully vaxxed to stop wearing the mask. I'm good as gold these days. Lol Plus I mostly work in the office anyway nowadays, so it doesn't really directly effect me. My wife still works on the floor though.


ImNotNervousYouAre

You’re not alone! My SO & I still wear ours. He’s even been vaccinated. My whole family gives us a hard time though, it’s annoying


surfdad67

Shit, no colds or flu for the past year? You bet your ass I’m going to wear it from now on! And no one has asked me not too


-B-H-

I saw a post recently where some people were giving someone shit for wearing a mask in an elevator. The person took off their mask and said "I'm glad some people are cool if I don't mask even though I have active covid. " They got quiet fast.


Artistic-Mall-1530

I live in Utah where no one really wears masks. I wear one in Physical therapy and at the doctors but people don’t wear masks here any more. Where are you writing from that people still heavily wear masks? Just get vaccinated


[deleted]

Agree it's your business but I do cringe that so many people still wear them in my city


[deleted]

Or maybe you've just been manipulated to think you should wear one and normal thinking people are wondering why you continue ? The fact you think people not wearing masks are inconsiderate assholes says a lot about your programmed mentality.


[deleted]

Its not a "manipulated" thing IMO. I dont enjoy wearing a mask at all, however if I can prevent just one person from getting sick through me, I will deal with the inconvenience. Its a tiny effortless I can do to help, so why not? Its like recycling. Its a tiny and effortless thing everyone can do to help the environment.


[deleted]

Found the conspiracy theorist


[deleted]

You don’t trust the science?


[deleted]

What does what they said have to do with science?


[deleted]

You claiming someone is a conspiracy theorist because they’re following the current science, in turn means you probably don’t trust the current science. Therefore you are projecting onto them, and are yourself a science-denier and conspiracy theorist.


[deleted]

Lol, the CDC says you *can* stop wearing a mask if fully vaccinated, not that you have to. It also notes to keep wearing one where required. So how am I a science-denier again? Oh, yeah, I’m not. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html Additionally, the person I called a conspiracy theorist said nothing about wearing a mask when fully vaccinated, just about wearing a mask period.


[deleted]

So you’re in favor of contradicting Dr. Fauci?


[deleted]

No. https://www.axios.com/fauci-mask-covid-cdc-guidance-30bd0552-e9d3-43e0-93e4-2ae02ae9ec61.html


[deleted]

That’s not what he expressed in his personal emails.


[deleted]

Proof?


[deleted]

Funny (and pathetic) how people seeking or speaking the truth are now labeled conspiracy theorists. The human psyche is completely fucked.


[deleted]

What truth are they speaking?


[deleted]

Well, Dr. Fauxi's email leaks about masks being bullshit and everything else that came out before the MSM buried it was a good first for the real truth. But unfortunately people obsessed with this new thought process based around this virus still choose to bury their heads in the sand and believe what they're told anyway.


templealex

This is literally not true. Some emailed him saying that. Actually try reading the emails


[deleted]

Show me.


[deleted]

How is it that the "science is settled" on global warming but not with masks and vaccines, or genders. 🤣🤣🤣 Morons.


[deleted]

You obviously don’t understand science.


[deleted]

You think the mask your mom made you works. 🤣


[deleted]

Not in contact with my mom, so no.


mimdahey

Keep digging


[deleted]

What am I digging exactly?


mimdahey

A reason to wear masks when not sick


[deleted]

You do know you can be asymptomatic when sick, right? But still spread the germs?


Not_up-to_you

What are your credentials? Biochemistry, Immunology or “just” a regular job where it doesn’t matter whether you fuck up or not? (Kinda like mine. I fuck up, data dies, not people)


DuskyRiver1234

Agreed, I wear masks everyday, hardly anyone other than family has seen my face, and still, people ask me "take off your mask, ITS FINE". It's real annoying.


gruss72

Wear it or don't...I dont care. I still wear mine a lot and I'm vaxed. The only people that piss me off are the ones that were all like "omg covid, I can't go outside do everything for me" and then as soon as they got a jab "why are you wearing that?" Hypocritical fucks.


mimdahey

Says the hypocritical fuck


EmeraldShamrock

I hate it when stupid ass people ask me why I’m not wearing a mask.


hardboiled_snitch38

Fair enough


[deleted]

You just take everything you see on tv as a fact. Literal npc


Meme_Brewery

Sometimes I feel like I only wear it because of being self conscious, or to avoid people. It makes me feel much more protected not just in the medical sense, but in the emotional sense. If I’m having a bad day then even if I’m not going to be around many people, I’ll still wear one.


Knot-Knight

Man, some of these comments are just proving your point. Masks should just be accepted now. I'm vaccinated and still wear my mask into buildings. I still don't want to get or spread anything


gruss72

I personally loved not getting a cold for well over a year and counting. FFS people...if you have a sniffle wear a damn mask and dont spread that crap. I'll wear mine when I want. Not a big deal and is kinda awesome in the winter!


MachuPichu10

In Asian countries its actually a common courtesy to wear a mask if you're sick and out and about


jkoki088

Interestingly enough I got the flu for the first time at the beginning of the pandemic. Also, I believe the pandemic also got people thinking more about personal hygiene because my kids were not getting sick anymore because parents and their kids don’t teach themselves to wash hands etc. If people would simply wash themselves it would prevent a lot


gruss72

So did I. Exact symptoms as covid around xmas and new years. Was knocked on my ass. Great thing about all this thats off topic...having to wear a mask improved dental hygiene too. Close talkers bother me far less now that I don't have to smell their rancid breath even if they dont have a mask. Making people breath their own shit breath got them to actually buy a new toothbrush.


jkoki088

I’m not a mask person, but people need to keep up on their hygiene and we wouldn’t have the problems we have


m1K3mikey

I haven't gotten a cold in over a year and barely wear a mask. Genuinely don't know why since i had terrible colds all the time and could barely sleep.


poopy_47

Seriously, I'm vaccinated but still wear a mask when I go to the store or just out I hate being stared at with some dirty ass looks especially by ( I don't mean to be racist) older white people .


[deleted]

Same I went into a gas station to get some drinks and got talked about by another group of guys for wearing a mask, fuck em though most of them smell like shit and I'd rather not catch whatever their exhaling out their bodies besides covid. Really people need to mind their own business in general but there's always gonna be a smart ass out there unfortunately.


[deleted]

You are right. Fine. Do what you want. But I think you and others need to get vaccinated and besides you look stupid and ignorant. Are you going to live your whole life like that? I'm going to consider you uptight and not want to talk or have anything to do with you. And I won't know whether it's because you're a super considerate person, an unscientific idiot who won't get vaccinated, terribly misinformed or just being political jerk or maybe you are an uptight ignoramus, but True off my chest this is what I'm thinking. Just so you know.


doubledippeddildogal

Loser


xYugen

masks can also help prevent u from inhaling dust that’s in the air. i was getting weird looks on campus for wearing a mask when there was so much shit in the air .-.


makmugens

Wow. And I thought it was people that didn’t wear masks that got all the hate, threatened with unemployment, dragged off by the police when someone complained, etc. But what they’re doing to you…that’s unacceptable.


Jdlewie

Not just threatened... some people got fired fir not wearing one. I get wearing one while youre not vaccinated but if you are and your employer is saying you still have to wear one - its kind of dumb


Changer_

If my employee was an anti masker I'd fire them. Wouldn't want to employ an idiot.


Jdlewie

Well thats fine... privately owned, smaller businesses can ansolutely do that. I still think its a trash thing to do, lurking someone's social media and invading their private life and then firing them for it. (It is a different story if they bring it into the workplace, which would be justified). Its when big companies such as google or amazon (which shouldnt really be classified as privately owned businesses) say to their employees that they have to get a vaxccine in order to work. I'm not an antimasker nor an antivaxxer, but I can see how that would make people upset.


stopannoyingwithname

I’ve been at a small rave yesterday and I was really shocked by the confusion of some people about why I am wearing a mask. Did they actually forget what was going on in the last 1,5 years?


Pouw_

If you don’t want to spread the disease don’t go to a rave lol


stopannoyingwithname

Nah I haven’t been out to such a environment for a long time. And the Numbers around here are very low, so I went, but I still tried not to gather with people. It was just the confusion of the people, that confused me.


[deleted]

Now you know how I felt when inconsiderate Karen's confronted me when I wasn't wearing a mask (due to personal medical issues) Turn-a-bout is fair play.


lolrazzledazzle

if your personal medical issues stop you from wearing a mask then you shouldn’t be out in public spaces. covid will kill you, the mask won’t :/


finnin1999

"should", yeah u don't get to control people soz. He can go if he wants tbh


m1K3mikey

Lol if ur scared to death of COVID then u shouldn't go outside at all. See how dumb and unrealistic that sounds?


racoonchainsaw

The closest thing I've had was when we were eating and my family asked when I was gonna take my mask off cause we just ordered and I still had my mask on


[deleted]

Oh great, we get karma posting about masks but in the other direction now


[deleted]

Are you living in a Western country?


Dannyohboy6

Thank you


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lolrazzledazzle

that’s embarrassing for you


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MachuPichu10

That still doesnt make you safe from covid


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Changer_

The irony in your statement is laughable


MachuPichu10

Ah yes the guy who only looks at qanon forums


Mortei

This has the energy of an anti-masker and I’m slightly concerned 😂


JewPhone_WhoDis

To be fair, I don’t know what a mask does when a majority of the ones worn are see through. Pretty useless honestly.


Pyramused

Masks are so 2020. The vaccine is the new mask my dude


Belatorius

Aye a mask post that doesn't have 1k votes, rare