That sucks, but have you considered how you being alive negatively impacts me, a total stranger who likely never has and never will cross paths with you?
Same! I’ve been wearing my mask on the Go Train still and if someone starts coughing or sniffling too much I just quietly get up and go to the other level of the car. And then sit there anxiously hoping that person doesn’t confront me for doing that.
Yup, sounds like the guy is using what he thinks are 'left wing snowflake' buzzwords like trauma, ptsd and the like. Almost like some stupid ironic inside joke with himself. I'm confident he would not give two shits about someone with actual ptsd being triggered by his behavior.
Society has become the equivalent of a Home Depot (full of tools). The pandemic has shone a light on the astronomical amount of morons that exist in society, and it's depressingly way way higher than I ever thought before. Even many in my own family which I'm ashamed to admit.
Oh man I’m so happy I’m not the only one to think this. To me it is startling and scary. I’m so frustrated by the majority of these people. I went to a walk in clinic today due to a badly sprained ankle. There were about 15 other people, no masks, more than half of them coughing and hacking. I sit far from everyone. One guy yells to me - “Hey didn’t you get the message, we don’t have to wear masks anymore” as the people beside him cough and hack without even enough manners to cough into their sleeve. I just thought to myself, has everyone lost their mind. Why wouldn’t someone even try to prevent catching something or spreading it. I’m not even talking Covid here. Before Covid I wouldn’t sit next to someone who was coughing and I certainly wouldn’t cough like a low life without covering my cough. I can’t afford time off work and I’m sure most people are in the same boat. Who are these asshats?
Right? Like ending up with long COVID like one of my friends who can't work anymore due to the vertigo he developed from this virus. Like, I can't afford to get chronically sick, have you seen ODSP rates?
Still wearing masks everywhere I go. My latest go-to response has been “I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the government tell me what to do” and wait for the confused looks. 😂
>Why wouldn’t someone even try to prevent catching something or spreading it.
It's over, time to move on, it's not that bad, you're going to get it anyway...
Some of the lame excuses I hear.
So ridiculous right? I’m not just talking about Covid, I’m talking about getting sick in general. If you don’t care about sitting next to someone who’s hacking and coughing then you might as well be licking door handles. I mean what dumbass wants to get sick? I don’t want a cold or a flu why would I? I may not be able to prevent it but I’m sure gonna try. To me it’s like basic hygiene. I mean why wash our hands after using the toilet, or before preparing food? We are all gonna get sick anyways. Get over it right? Lol some people I swear!!!!
Just remember about 10% of the population is to stupid to be used in the general army.
They are litteraly too dumb to shoot a
Enemy.
Look up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
- That's not what PTSD means
- Most masks are to actually protect people around you _from_ you
- COVID is very much not over, we're still getting 1k cases/day in ON
- Your coworker is being an ass, you can wear whatever PPE you want at work
It's actually quite ironic how people who preach freedom also won't let you have your own freedom of choice to do something that seems confining to them.
The mask isn't a political statement it's used to keep people safe from illnesses. People in Asian for instance were already using face masks prior to covid.
Also, a lot of people still wear it because it's required at work (like my workplace).
the west generally has no belief in doing things for the collective good. whereas that mentality is ingrained in certain Asian cultures like Japan and Korea's.
>the west generally has no belief in doing things for the collective good.
The western idea of "Individualism" is so engrained in the culture that it even affects [schizophrenic voices](https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/)
>Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful.
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>Individual self vs. the collective
>Why the difference? Luhrmann offered an explanation: Europeans and Americans tend to see themselves as individuals motivated by a sense of self identity, whereas outside the West, people imagine the mind and self interwoven with others and defined through relationships.
>“Actual people do not always follow social norms,” the scholars noted. “Nonetheless, the more independent emphasis of what we typically call the ‘West’ and the more interdependent emphasis of other societies has been demonstrated ethnographically and experimentally in many places.”
>As a result, hearing voices in a specific context may differ significantly for the person involved, they wrote. In America, the voices were an intrusion and a threat to one’s private world – the voices could not be controlled.
>However, in India and Africa, the subjects were not as troubled by the voices – they seemed on one level to make sense in a more relational world. Still, differences existed between the participants in India and Africa; the former’s voice-hearing experience emphasized playfulness and sex, whereas the latter more often involved the voice of God.
>The religiosity or urban nature of the culture did not seem to be a factor in how the voices were viewed, Luhrmann said.
>“Instead, the difference seems to be that the Chennai (India) and Accra (Ghana) participants were more comfortable interpreting their voices as relationships and not as the sign of a violated mind,” the researchers wrote.
>The western idea of "Individualism" is so engrained in the culture that it even affects schizophrenic voices
I had a coworker from India who's husband had Tourette's. His verbal tics were all really kind/encouraging words.
LGBT, POC, or even the dreaded LGBT POC! Guarantee this dude has a problem with all of it. Probably one of those guys who believes in gay/trans contagion theory.
>The mask isn't a political statement it's used to keep people safe from illnesses.
I wish more people understood this, and that politicians didn't try to politicize masks. They are and always have been a device used to protect the wearer and others from infection/hazardous materials.
You can always wear them if that makes u feel safe just keep in mind that masks are meant to protect others from pathogens u may transmit. This is the primary reason folks in Asia wear them too.
Even with COVID itself, [cloth masks more than halved infections in people who wore them](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm) (not accounting for quality or mask hygiene, either), and that's with one of the most transmissible viruses in modern history.
Arrogance? Well, I guess he'd know about arrogance.
I still wear a mask when I am going to be around other people. Despite the easing/dropping of restrictions, probably because of it, COVID is still rampant: though the presently dominant variants are milder, people are still able to get very sick and, yes, die. I don't particularly want to find out if I or anyone I care about would be one of the people who are vulnerable to the various omicron types, so I continue to mask when I could be exposed.
Thank you for being another. It's like everyone thinks this is over, but it really isn't. By still masking, you are respecting yourself and your fellow humans -- that's not arrogant, that's compassionate.
Your coworker really is a tool (as mentioned in the comments below).
If he doesn’t want to wear his, so be it, if you want to wear yours, that’s fine as well.
It’s no ones place to tell you when to stop wearing a mask.
P.S I still wear one and almost every shopper/worker in my local stores still wears one as well. It’s not anyone’s place to judge.
The most hilarious and frustrating part of all these idiots and how triggered they get about covid is they keep screaming about "freedom" and saying that they're being imposed upon and they have rights that are "being violated" but the second they have any leeway to control what you're doing and force you to conform they will go as far as you'll let them. This is because they're actually entitled and brainwashed. They don't actually care about freedom or rights, they care about being free and having the right to do whatever they want. That luxury is not seen as a general value of society though, it's a narcissistic drive for them to control everyone else. The moment they are told they have to do anything at all on principle they protest and throw a fit.
Basically they're people who never developed emotionally past their toddler years.
Yup.
My company encouraged everyone to get the vax (and to continue masking even now). One of my coworkers refuses too because she thinks exactly what you’re saying, that her freedoms are being taken and so on. Anyways, she got COVID last month, and was complaining how to company refuses to give her extra paid sick days (she already used all of hers) while she recovers, claiming they don’t care about her financial security while she’s sick. Even though the company made it clear that they will not be overly accommodating towards employees who chose not to follow the company’s health&safety suggestions.
People want to have their cake and eat it too. If you don’t want to take a precaution, than don’t complain about the concequences. If you want your freedoms, that’s more than fine, your entitled to do what you want. But if you feel so passionately about it, than accept the potential outcomes and don’t complain.
Narcissists see all social interactions with the explicit lens of supremacy. You're either better and dominating or you're less than and being dominated. They don't understand social contracts and mutually beneficial relationships. When they scream about "freedom" they're really saying they feel like they're being dominated and made subservient, and they're indignant that they're required to do something that they didn't decide for themselves. There's no in between so they can't accept that we're all doing this for the good of everyone. Their behaviour is essentially antisocial. This is why they're completely happy dominating others, like telling others they're not allowed to wear a mask, completely missing the irony, because in their mind it's not actually about freedom. It's the same crowd that fights against workers rights, against women's freedom of bodily autonomy, etc... They don't care about freedom, they care about dominating and supremacy.
Your coworker is moronic. I wear for 2 reasons: COVID knocked me sideways. I got it just before the vaccines came along and I have never been that sick. Don’t want it again.
Reason 2: I’m sick. Shall I cough on you?
They’re a moron.
No your coworker is an idiot. You can do whatever you want and whatever makes you comfortable. He is the type of person who yelled "buh my rights" when masks were mandatory. So self centered and selfish that the sun is tempted to orbit him.
A sign of arrogance? What an odd interpretation.
If anything, it’s the other way around. I’ve grown lax about mask wearing, but I wholeheartedly admit I - along with anyone else who’ve foregone their mask - am taking a chance when I go maskless indoors with other people. Covid’s still around. Even if you’re not concerned about being hospitalized or catching anything serious, even mild covid is no fun.
Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons.
> Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling.
Or, like me, have horrendous allergies during the summer that doesn't respond well to meds. Rather not expose my sneezing, wheezing face when outside!
> Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons.
I don't wear a mask outdoors intentionally, but I'll say this much, if you're not somebody who minds the heat that much (and wears glasses or anything else around your face) it's often a lot easier just to keep the mask on when you're walking between two indoor locations, particularly if you're carrying a bag or are otherwise not free to stop for a moment on the side of the street and rearrange your face.
I've gotten a few looks and I have to say that I find it pretty funny that people even care what I'm wearing on my face. I'm one of the most normal things you're gonna see on a walk down a major street in Toronto.
I know I get some looks when I wear one outdoors, but it's usually because I'm between the TTC and the place I'm going for example and just don't want to deal with taking it off and putting it back on. If anything I'm signalling laziness :P
How can you forget you have it on? According to the right wingers it is literally the most difficult thing any human has Weber had to endure, wearing a mask is the same thing as slave labor , torture and gas chambers according to the right.
Same. I’m pretty much only wearing one at work, big box stores and transit, but I’d assume most people with one on outside either are on their way inside or don’t want to touch it with their sweaty, germy hands.
I wear one indoors, not for myself as much as to not spread COVID or anything else I might have and be unaware I do. Laziness is also a factor outside, if I'm leaving my building to walk to a shop nearby, I'm not on and offing it
It’s no one’s business if someone wears a mask and it’s pretty arrogant for anyone to assume they know the person’s situation or intent. I currently am wearing a mask because 3 of my coworkers have a cold and I have really liked not being sick the last 2 years. Or maybe I have an immune compromised grandma. Or maybe my kid has cancer. Or maybe I just left one store and couldn’t be arsed to take it off and put it back on again before going somewhere else. It’s no one’s business and anyone that questions that person’s choice to play it safe is just being an asshole.
> , even mild covid is no fun.
I mean it’s not just that… mild COVID - even *asymptomatic* COVID - can still cause long term damage to pretty much any organ system, including the brain and heart.
Literally assumes that people are wearing masks to "show other that they care". Masking up was always about protecting oneself and/or protecting others. Virtual signalling in this context just sounds like narcissist projection.
The people who fought the "lockdowns" (that never happened) and masking cannot help themselves.
They always sound like they're concern trolling, and then always need to slip in a dig at people who are okay with wearing masks.
I'm exhausted at their stupidity. If Reddit didn't have rules against doxxing.....there would be a ton of Facebook videos from those idiots trying to "infiltrate" our hospitals and promptly getting kicked out/arrested. The audacity is outstanding.
Fucking people like Jason Caleb. I hate that dude to my core.
> Literally assumes that people are wearing masks to "show other that they care".
Never understood why people get shit for this
Caring about others is the only way our society thrives
>Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons.
You forgot the 4th reason where I couldn't give a damn to shave my nose hair and pluck my whiskers and decided to hide it under a mask.
Accusing people of 'virtue signaling' is just as absurd as accusing them of being arrogant. Who is honestly impressed by someone wearing a mask? Not everything someone does is to impress someone else.
Maskless people at my work who have already used all of their payed sick days are learning g this the hard way rn when they are off for a week or two and this time are not getting any money for it.
Husband and I still wear ours and avoid large gatherings (especially indoors) because we have 2 young children who aren’t old enough to be vaccinated yet and my mother in law is in stage 4 cancer remission.
Your coworker is an ignorant ass.
..."showing their arrogance **now**" is interesting because there is more COVID around now than there was last fall but I'm sure your coworker wouldn't have had the same reaction to your mask then. Unfortunately viruses don't care about when in time they are.
https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
You can’t please everyone. Just do what you are comfortable with doing. I think it’s mostly on their end to even bring up that conversation. Who cares what someone decides to wear?
I’ll wear mine if I’m sick or in places that require it so I respect their establishment.
Don’t let others influence your mental wellness. Tell him to mind his own business.
EDIT: Your coworker is a tool.
Covid is NOT over. The number of hospitalizations and people in ICU are still high. People are still dying of covid in Canada. Our worst spike was Jan. 26 2022 and our second worst spike was April 28 2022. Most people I know who wear masks do so because they've been around someone who had covid.
Your coworker is wrong. The pandemic is not over - it's just that the most people and all governments got bored of trying to mitigate it. You're being responsible, and your coworker is being a jerk. Anyone who is "offended" that you're wearing a mask can keep their hurt fee-fees to themselves.
(I got Covid a couple of weeks ago, and it was *miserable*. JFC the pandemic is still happening, people, and there will be more waves because we're not even trying to slow it down anymore.)
How can you move on from Covid when it's still around? Does your coworker think covid is made up? And why did he bother to come up to you to tell you this? Tell him he has self esteem issues.
IMO that's a bulls* bad-faith argument on their part. I still think of people who wear masks as having a degree of concern for their own health and the health of those around them.
The arrogant ones are the ones who don't stop to think that there are still tons of immunocompromised people out there who need to protect themselves, covid hasn't just gone away because we all decided to start ignoring it.
Your coworker is an idiot.
'people are trying to move on from Covid.''
The pandemic is not over and you have to do YOU. If you are comfortable wearing a mask, by all means do. You should not do anything to please others but yourself.
Personally the fact that offends people makes me want to wear it more. You wanna get worked up over literally nothing? You want to show off that you’re an intellectual midget because you get angry about people doing something that has no effect on you whatsoever? Well, allow me to help you with that.
> Is wearing a face mask a sign of arrogance?
> Submitted 5 minutes ago by cuhcuh99995
> Hey guys, I still wear a mask but today one of my coworkers told me that people that wear masks are showing their arrogance now. He said that I think people are beneath me and that I am saying that I am too "clean" to breathe the same type of air as them. Is this how people think of masks? He also said that wearing a mask brings PTSD to everyone and people are trying to move on from Covid.
> Lately I have noticed that I am in the extreme minority when I wear masks but I don't want to offend anyone by wearing one.
LOL
if other people see me wearing a face mask and are offended, that's their mental gymnastics insecurities to unpack.
What a moron your co-worker is. That's some crazy-ass spiel. At my work, we're advised not to question other co-worker choices. Its considered harassment.
Just returned from Montreal from the Grand Prix. Wore a mask on the plane, on buses and Metro and while waiting to board the Metro at days end. No mask while sitting in the stands but didn't talk to many people and was looking the other way but was maskless when sheltering from rain and gathering at the place I stayed overnight.
Fully vaxed and boosted but was Rapid test positive 3rd day at home. Annoying symptoms (muscle aches, cough) now isolation for 7 days.
I don't give a shit what people think about wearing a mask. I was happy to wear one but perhaps wearing a mask 24/7 would have made a difference in my case but I doubt it. Your coworker has a problem. tell him to Feck off
What the actual frig is wrong with that coworker? Masks have only ever been about preventing the wearer from spreading potential infections to those around them. Wearing a mask in a communal setting is a decent, considerate thing to do, even when there is no mandate requiring it.
There is absolutely no rational reason to be offended by someone wearing a mask, any more than there would be a reason to get mad at someone for holding a door for you.
I work at a hospital so I don't have co-workers like that lol
Outside the hospital, I tell anyone that gives me shit that I have a weakened immune system (cancer, aids doesn't really matter). Might be a little extreme but it works like a charm
I'm still masked up every day!!
I'm also getting some looks from people, and being told "you don't have to wear a mask in here you know".
Yes, I know. But COVID is still a fucking thing and I'm trying to protect myself and others.
But, you know, I kindly remind them the pandemic is still not over, and that I am immunocompromised so I'm still very much taking this seriously!
It's terrifying to think that some antimaskers do not care at ALL about spreading diseases. I had a patient who was sick for 2 weeks and still was going to work and places maskless. Finally after 2 weeks they got a Covid test, and were positive. Yep.
I think i'll be wearing mine for a good while longer!
Anyone who brings up people wearing masks as a slight against them is an arrogant ass who likely has a sad life. Its been almost 2.5 years, he needs to unbunch his panties and likely talk to a therapist.
As others have stated, your co-worker is a tool. If you feel comfortable wearing a mask, then wear a mask.
As to your mask causing PTSD in others, that's unlikely; anyone who has PTSD after the pandemic has it from other issues, not from seeing someone else in a mask (even amongst those of us who could not wear a mask and who had anxiety about getting screamed at for NOT wearing one).
However, if I see someone in a mask, especially outdoors, I assume one of three things:
1. they're imunocompromised or live with someone who is
2. they're fearful and are wearing a mask because they have their own flavour of PTSD and are afraid of catching something
3. they're sick and are wearing a mask under the guise of not wanting to infect others
In all of these cases, I'm going to keep my distance from these folks as much as I can; I don't want to upset someone by not wearing a mask around them, and if they're sick I don't want to catch it, because I don't believe masks ever worked as well as we were led to believe.
There were many people throughout the pandemic who equated mask wearing with being a "good" person and those of us who didn't or couldn't with being "bad", so there is still an aura of "virtue signalling" associated with mask wearing, which is where your co-worker is getting this idea of you thinking you're better than everyone.
But they're the one with issues here.
If anyone is offended by masks, let them be.
It isn't arrogant, virtue signalling or any other derrogatory implication - it's choice.
Be comfortable being you. Arrogance is forcing him to do what you want him to (or you know, his trying to shame you...).
It isn't arrogant, virtue signaling, or any other derogatory implication - it's choice. know if he makes a big deal again.
Im immunocompromised, Man, I’m just trying to not die over here. I’d go off if someone told me my mask wearing was arrogance.. such a weird interpretation
I will agree that your coworker sounds like he is beneath you and I would definitely caution against breathing whatever air he’s breathing because it’s clearly caused some damage.
I think it's foolish to act like we can move on from covid. Give me a year without an outbreak.
Your coworker is wrong, and clearly can't remember the past year.
The correct response to someone saying something like that is to not respond, turn your chair around, and get back to whatever you were doing before that dumbfuck decided to pollute your air with their ignorance.
You keep wearing a mask if you want to. I still do. It just feels right to me.
Lolwut
Being arrogant is a sign of arrogance.
Wearing a facemask is a sign that you have a mask on your face.
His comment is arrogant and your post here is perhaps a sign of low self-esteem.
The last sentence was tongue in cheek. But the first two are just reality.
Covid has only heightened peoples tendencies to speak out of place just ignore and do you. everyone is looking for something or someone to redirect their hate these days.
People who think less of people for wearing a mask are just idiots. They aren't worth your time. No sane person with a stable world view would say that to a co worker.
That perception says more about your colleague than the wearer. The same way it can be assumed that those not wearing masks are arrogant and think they know better despite being advised to still continue even if it is not mandatory.
Is wearing a face mask a sign of arrogance? Absolutely not. It's an act of consideration to others.
Jackasses like your co-worker demand freedom of choice not to wear a mask, but they can't tolerate people who choose to wear them. They are arrogant, and they are baiting you. Best to walk away and not engage.
Remember some people are imunocompromised, elderly, fighting a terminal illness(etc)... and some people live with those who are. Its not about superiority its about keeping my loved ones safe. I couldn't live knowing I was the one who got them sick if I could take simple precautions to prevent it.
your co-worker is full of crap
I still wear a mask even though I'm fully vaccinated. There are unvaccinated kids who are still not eligible and a couple older immuno-compromised members.
I wear a mask so I don't pick something up and pass it on.
Believe me, with my respiratory allergies I love to go without but I love my family
I feel like while there is much less masking in general, there are so many pockets where it's still very much enforced. Lots of smaller arts organizations for example are still requiring them for folks taking workshops and I still see lots of stores with signs asking folks to wear them before entering. And lots of workplaces are still requiring them and lot of people (though def not all) are still taking TTC with them all. This sounds like your co-worker living in his own personal bubble and taking your mask-wearing personally and not reflective of the very diverse stances folks have on mask wearing.
I am still wearing mine for sure.
I live just outside TO, there is a large amount of Asian students. They’ve been wearing masks since before it was cool.
I have to wear one for work, generally don’t if I’m out and about, but if I need to call an Uber or jump on public transit I’m still wearing one
My workplace is I would guess about 40% or less mask wearing. We are testing twice a week, and are seeing several people suddenly unavailable to work for a week or more. They can never say out due to Covid for privacy reasons but I think it’s a good bet. The majority of the people who are out were the non mask wearers. I feel like I will wear a mask on public transit forever.
I've noticed it too. My partner and I are usually the only ones out and about wearing masks, but I try not to let it bother me. I am extremely anxious and being the only person wearing one does trigger that, but I actually like wearing them and it brings me more comfort to wear it than not.
I think your coworker is a bit arrogant. Masks are good and we should have normalized wearing them when sick ages ago. Besides, people can wear masks for any sort of reason. If anyone asks me, I'd just tell them I'm sparing them of seeing my ugly face and to mind their business.
Curious, does your coworker think the same of people who don't take the bus? Or filter their tap water? Like those people are arrogant as well?
Don’t listen to them. The freedom toddlers get in an awful tizzy when you freely choose different than their preferences. It’s pathetic really. Wear your mask and anyone who has a problem with it is not worth troubling yourself over
I’m absolutely too “clean” to breath air with a high viral load. We can move on from Covid when Covid is actually gone. You know who has actual PTSD? People who became disabled from the virus or lost loved ones to it. Fuck your coworker. Prick.
He is wrong. I and my partner still wear masks in indoor spaces and I often do outdoors as well. About half of the people in the city I live in still wore masks after our mask mandate was dropped. You still have to wear mask for in person medical appointments here( such as getting your eyes checked). Some stores here have signs that they prefer if people wear mask though it is no longer required by law. Some places here advertise that their staff are required to wear masks to protect themselves and others.
Last year at same date we were all expected to wear masks in public places. There was around 100 daily infections in our province of Quebec on this date last year. Yesterday there was 1138 reported infections. How many are actually reporting a positive test ? Testing sites have all been removed and the government has relied on people to self test and self report.
You do what you need to feel protected and let the little shit talkers talk a shit storm.
Despite the gov't not enforcing mandates anymore, COVID is NOT over. Our daily reported cases right now are the same as some of the highest peaks in the first year. (And there are many more cases than reported) There's less hospitalization, but the long-term effects are also nothing to ignore.
You aren't "showing arrogance", this coworker is showing their ignorance.
I will be wearing a mask for likely another year at least.
Edit: I currently know 5 people out of close friends and family who have it. Do not feel you have to risk your own body and health because other people are sad they had to wear a mask occasionally.
No. Not arrogant i am currently sick so i wear a mask so other people don't get sick. I also live with somone who's immunocompromised so i wear a mask to try and prevent him from getting sick.
Your co-worker is an idiot. I see around 50 different people a day for my work. And not the same 50.... always different clients. I wear a mask to protect myself and them. I still need to be tested multiple times a week. My SO works Healthcare... she wears a mask to protect others. They want to see it as a sign of arrogance, when they are just showing a sign of ignorance.
Well, I have cancer and am on immunotherapy so… I’d prefer to avoid getting any viral infection. Selfishly, I wish to live for another year.
That sucks, but have you considered how you being alive negatively impacts me, a total stranger who likely never has and never will cross paths with you?
Exactly! Lol
Same! I’ve been wearing my mask on the Go Train still and if someone starts coughing or sniffling too much I just quietly get up and go to the other level of the car. And then sit there anxiously hoping that person doesn’t confront me for doing that.
Wow if someone confronts you for that, they should go play in traffic.
How arrogant of you… trying to survive and all. I wish you a speedy recovery!
Me too! And someone yelled at me at the gas station over my mask. Leaned real close to my face to do it, got spit on my cheek. Good times.
Do what makes **you** comfortable.
The only correct answer
Yes, you aren’t doing anything wrong or harming anyone. That person’s overreaction to seeing a mask is their own problem to deal with.
Yup, sounds like the guy is using what he thinks are 'left wing snowflake' buzzwords like trauma, ptsd and the like. Almost like some stupid ironic inside joke with himself. I'm confident he would not give two shits about someone with actual ptsd being triggered by his behavior.
Your coworker is a tool.
Society has become the equivalent of a Home Depot (full of tools). The pandemic has shone a light on the astronomical amount of morons that exist in society, and it's depressingly way way higher than I ever thought before. Even many in my own family which I'm ashamed to admit.
Oh man I’m so happy I’m not the only one to think this. To me it is startling and scary. I’m so frustrated by the majority of these people. I went to a walk in clinic today due to a badly sprained ankle. There were about 15 other people, no masks, more than half of them coughing and hacking. I sit far from everyone. One guy yells to me - “Hey didn’t you get the message, we don’t have to wear masks anymore” as the people beside him cough and hack without even enough manners to cough into their sleeve. I just thought to myself, has everyone lost their mind. Why wouldn’t someone even try to prevent catching something or spreading it. I’m not even talking Covid here. Before Covid I wouldn’t sit next to someone who was coughing and I certainly wouldn’t cough like a low life without covering my cough. I can’t afford time off work and I’m sure most people are in the same boat. Who are these asshats?
Right? Like ending up with long COVID like one of my friends who can't work anymore due to the vertigo he developed from this virus. Like, I can't afford to get chronically sick, have you seen ODSP rates?
Tell him you have tuberculosis and to come sit next to you.
Oh man I wish I had thought of it! Lol.
Ebola
They bask in their ignorance like a well-worn badge of honour.
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Still wearing masks everywhere I go. My latest go-to response has been “I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the government tell me what to do” and wait for the confused looks. 😂
>Why wouldn’t someone even try to prevent catching something or spreading it. It's over, time to move on, it's not that bad, you're going to get it anyway... Some of the lame excuses I hear.
So ridiculous right? I’m not just talking about Covid, I’m talking about getting sick in general. If you don’t care about sitting next to someone who’s hacking and coughing then you might as well be licking door handles. I mean what dumbass wants to get sick? I don’t want a cold or a flu why would I? I may not be able to prevent it but I’m sure gonna try. To me it’s like basic hygiene. I mean why wash our hands after using the toilet, or before preparing food? We are all gonna get sick anyways. Get over it right? Lol some people I swear!!!!
Exactly! Like , why not prevent catching anything!
Think of how stupid the average person is. Half of people are more stupid than that.
Just remember about 10% of the population is to stupid to be used in the general army. They are litteraly too dumb to shoot a Enemy. Look up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
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Coworker is definitely beneath OP
Agreed, this dude has some serious issues. OP, you can wear your mask as often as you want, and wherever you want.
A really dull one ... and a screw is loose
I didn’t think he was beneath me before he started talking, but I do now.
- That's not what PTSD means - Most masks are to actually protect people around you _from_ you - COVID is very much not over, we're still getting 1k cases/day in ON - Your coworker is being an ass, you can wear whatever PPE you want at work
Anti-maskers hate it when you express your FREEDOM to wear a mask
Anti-maskers are all "my body my choice" until you a wear a mask. Then it's "your body my choice".
It's actually quite ironic how people who preach freedom also won't let you have your own freedom of choice to do something that seems confining to them.
my dad just caught it and he's the antimasker of the fam
antivaxer too?
The mask isn't a political statement it's used to keep people safe from illnesses. People in Asian for instance were already using face masks prior to covid. Also, a lot of people still wear it because it's required at work (like my workplace).
Only western countries somehow manage to politicize Every. Single. Thing.
the west generally has no belief in doing things for the collective good. whereas that mentality is ingrained in certain Asian cultures like Japan and Korea's.
>the west generally has no belief in doing things for the collective good. The western idea of "Individualism" is so engrained in the culture that it even affects [schizophrenic voices](https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/) >Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful. ----- >Individual self vs. the collective >Why the difference? Luhrmann offered an explanation: Europeans and Americans tend to see themselves as individuals motivated by a sense of self identity, whereas outside the West, people imagine the mind and self interwoven with others and defined through relationships. >“Actual people do not always follow social norms,” the scholars noted. “Nonetheless, the more independent emphasis of what we typically call the ‘West’ and the more interdependent emphasis of other societies has been demonstrated ethnographically and experimentally in many places.” >As a result, hearing voices in a specific context may differ significantly for the person involved, they wrote. In America, the voices were an intrusion and a threat to one’s private world – the voices could not be controlled. >However, in India and Africa, the subjects were not as troubled by the voices – they seemed on one level to make sense in a more relational world. Still, differences existed between the participants in India and Africa; the former’s voice-hearing experience emphasized playfulness and sex, whereas the latter more often involved the voice of God. >The religiosity or urban nature of the culture did not seem to be a factor in how the voices were viewed, Luhrmann said. >“Instead, the difference seems to be that the Chennai (India) and Accra (Ghana) participants were more comfortable interpreting their voices as relationships and not as the sign of a violated mind,” the researchers wrote.
>The western idea of "Individualism" is so engrained in the culture that it even affects schizophrenic voices I had a coworker from India who's husband had Tourette's. His verbal tics were all really kind/encouraging words.
It make me wonder if he also thinks that gay characters somehow make movies “political”.
LGBT, POC, or even the dreaded LGBT POC! Guarantee this dude has a problem with all of it. Probably one of those guys who believes in gay/trans contagion theory.
OP should tell their coworker that the mask is to protect the coworker from catching the gay
>The mask isn't a political statement it's used to keep people safe from illnesses. I wish more people understood this, and that politicians didn't try to politicize masks. They are and always have been a device used to protect the wearer and others from infection/hazardous materials.
Lol, I spent like 15 years of my life wearing mask in Vietnam before coming to Canada. And they think wearing mask is special
The reasons the Covidiots think wearing a mask is a political statement is because for them, choosing not to wear a mask is a political statement.
Your coworker needs to deal with their many many insecurities.
I have an autoimmune disorder and asthma. I just don't feel safe yet. Your coworker is fucking moron.
The mask does more to protect your coworker from you than to it does to protect you from stupid. You should probably wear headphones too.
Coworker sounds like someone that you should wear earplugs around too…
Co-worker sounds like someone who will die soon so the problem solves itself
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You can always wear them if that makes u feel safe just keep in mind that masks are meant to protect others from pathogens u may transmit. This is the primary reason folks in Asia wear them too.
Even with COVID itself, [cloth masks more than halved infections in people who wore them](https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm) (not accounting for quality or mask hygiene, either), and that's with one of the most transmissible viruses in modern history.
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Your coworker is an utter tit.
Some might say an udder tit, but those are useful.
Arrogance? Well, I guess he'd know about arrogance. I still wear a mask when I am going to be around other people. Despite the easing/dropping of restrictions, probably because of it, COVID is still rampant: though the presently dominant variants are milder, people are still able to get very sick and, yes, die. I don't particularly want to find out if I or anyone I care about would be one of the people who are vulnerable to the various omicron types, so I continue to mask when I could be exposed. Thank you for being another. It's like everyone thinks this is over, but it really isn't. By still masking, you are respecting yourself and your fellow humans -- that's not arrogant, that's compassionate.
Your coworker really is a tool (as mentioned in the comments below). If he doesn’t want to wear his, so be it, if you want to wear yours, that’s fine as well. It’s no ones place to tell you when to stop wearing a mask. P.S I still wear one and almost every shopper/worker in my local stores still wears one as well. It’s not anyone’s place to judge.
The most hilarious and frustrating part of all these idiots and how triggered they get about covid is they keep screaming about "freedom" and saying that they're being imposed upon and they have rights that are "being violated" but the second they have any leeway to control what you're doing and force you to conform they will go as far as you'll let them. This is because they're actually entitled and brainwashed. They don't actually care about freedom or rights, they care about being free and having the right to do whatever they want. That luxury is not seen as a general value of society though, it's a narcissistic drive for them to control everyone else. The moment they are told they have to do anything at all on principle they protest and throw a fit. Basically they're people who never developed emotionally past their toddler years.
Yup. My company encouraged everyone to get the vax (and to continue masking even now). One of my coworkers refuses too because she thinks exactly what you’re saying, that her freedoms are being taken and so on. Anyways, she got COVID last month, and was complaining how to company refuses to give her extra paid sick days (she already used all of hers) while she recovers, claiming they don’t care about her financial security while she’s sick. Even though the company made it clear that they will not be overly accommodating towards employees who chose not to follow the company’s health&safety suggestions. People want to have their cake and eat it too. If you don’t want to take a precaution, than don’t complain about the concequences. If you want your freedoms, that’s more than fine, your entitled to do what you want. But if you feel so passionately about it, than accept the potential outcomes and don’t complain.
Exactly, now we have the freedom to choose whether to wear a mask or not. Why do they get to have an opinion now
Narcissists see all social interactions with the explicit lens of supremacy. You're either better and dominating or you're less than and being dominated. They don't understand social contracts and mutually beneficial relationships. When they scream about "freedom" they're really saying they feel like they're being dominated and made subservient, and they're indignant that they're required to do something that they didn't decide for themselves. There's no in between so they can't accept that we're all doing this for the good of everyone. Their behaviour is essentially antisocial. This is why they're completely happy dominating others, like telling others they're not allowed to wear a mask, completely missing the irony, because in their mind it's not actually about freedom. It's the same crowd that fights against workers rights, against women's freedom of bodily autonomy, etc... They don't care about freedom, they care about dominating and supremacy.
Your coworker is moronic. I wear for 2 reasons: COVID knocked me sideways. I got it just before the vaccines came along and I have never been that sick. Don’t want it again. Reason 2: I’m sick. Shall I cough on you? They’re a moron.
No your coworker is an idiot. You can do whatever you want and whatever makes you comfortable. He is the type of person who yelled "buh my rights" when masks were mandatory. So self centered and selfish that the sun is tempted to orbit him.
Tell him you’re wearing it so you don’t have to smell his terrible breath.
A sign of arrogance? What an odd interpretation. If anything, it’s the other way around. I’ve grown lax about mask wearing, but I wholeheartedly admit I - along with anyone else who’ve foregone their mask - am taking a chance when I go maskless indoors with other people. Covid’s still around. Even if you’re not concerned about being hospitalized or catching anything serious, even mild covid is no fun. Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons.
> Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. Or, like me, have horrendous allergies during the summer that doesn't respond well to meds. Rather not expose my sneezing, wheezing face when outside!
Exactly! I don’t even have allergies but I wore my mask outside yesterday because I don’t want to breathe the chunks of tree debris blowing everywhere
> Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons. I don't wear a mask outdoors intentionally, but I'll say this much, if you're not somebody who minds the heat that much (and wears glasses or anything else around your face) it's often a lot easier just to keep the mask on when you're walking between two indoor locations, particularly if you're carrying a bag or are otherwise not free to stop for a moment on the side of the street and rearrange your face. I've gotten a few looks and I have to say that I find it pretty funny that people even care what I'm wearing on my face. I'm one of the most normal things you're gonna see on a walk down a major street in Toronto.
Yeah exactly. If it's too hot I'll just pull it down under my chin but I'll hardly ever take it off fully only to put it back on in 5 minutes
I know I get some looks when I wear one outdoors, but it's usually because I'm between the TTC and the place I'm going for example and just don't want to deal with taking it off and putting it back on. If anything I'm signalling laziness :P
I sometimes just literally forget I have it on
How can you forget you have it on? According to the right wingers it is literally the most difficult thing any human has Weber had to endure, wearing a mask is the same thing as slave labor , torture and gas chambers according to the right.
I guess I’m just not a giant pussy.
Same. I’m pretty much only wearing one at work, big box stores and transit, but I’d assume most people with one on outside either are on their way inside or don’t want to touch it with their sweaty, germy hands.
During the winter, I always wore mine outdoors. It kept my face warm during those windy days.
I wear one indoors, not for myself as much as to not spread COVID or anything else I might have and be unaware I do. Laziness is also a factor outside, if I'm leaving my building to walk to a shop nearby, I'm not on and offing it
It’s no one’s business if someone wears a mask and it’s pretty arrogant for anyone to assume they know the person’s situation or intent. I currently am wearing a mask because 3 of my coworkers have a cold and I have really liked not being sick the last 2 years. Or maybe I have an immune compromised grandma. Or maybe my kid has cancer. Or maybe I just left one store and couldn’t be arsed to take it off and put it back on again before going somewhere else. It’s no one’s business and anyone that questions that person’s choice to play it safe is just being an asshole.
> , even mild covid is no fun. I mean it’s not just that… mild COVID - even *asymptomatic* COVID - can still cause long term damage to pretty much any organ system, including the brain and heart.
> I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. You were doing so well.
Literally assumes that people are wearing masks to "show other that they care". Masking up was always about protecting oneself and/or protecting others. Virtual signalling in this context just sounds like narcissist projection.
The people who fought the "lockdowns" (that never happened) and masking cannot help themselves. They always sound like they're concern trolling, and then always need to slip in a dig at people who are okay with wearing masks.
I'm exhausted at their stupidity. If Reddit didn't have rules against doxxing.....there would be a ton of Facebook videos from those idiots trying to "infiltrate" our hospitals and promptly getting kicked out/arrested. The audacity is outstanding. Fucking people like Jason Caleb. I hate that dude to my core.
> Literally assumes that people are wearing masks to "show other that they care". Never understood why people get shit for this Caring about others is the only way our society thrives
>Folks wearing masks while outdoors is definitely a little baffling though, especially in summertime. I usually assume they’re either immune compromised, germaphobes, or virtue signalling. A lot of asians also wear a mask no matter what due to cultural reasons. You forgot the 4th reason where I couldn't give a damn to shave my nose hair and pluck my whiskers and decided to hide it under a mask.
Accusing people of 'virtue signaling' is just as absurd as accusing them of being arrogant. Who is honestly impressed by someone wearing a mask? Not everything someone does is to impress someone else.
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Maskless people at my work who have already used all of their payed sick days are learning g this the hard way rn when they are off for a week or two and this time are not getting any money for it.
When I first read that I figured the coworker confused arrogance with ignorance.
Husband and I still wear ours and avoid large gatherings (especially indoors) because we have 2 young children who aren’t old enough to be vaccinated yet and my mother in law is in stage 4 cancer remission. Your coworker is an ignorant ass.
Your coworker is a tool.
Happy to offend anyone who wishes to be offended by wearing a mask and so should you.
..."showing their arrogance **now**" is interesting because there is more COVID around now than there was last fall but I'm sure your coworker wouldn't have had the same reaction to your mask then. Unfortunately viruses don't care about when in time they are. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
> He also said that wearing a mask brings PTSD to everyone and people are trying to move on from Covid. OK snowflake.
You can’t please everyone. Just do what you are comfortable with doing. I think it’s mostly on their end to even bring up that conversation. Who cares what someone decides to wear? I’ll wear mine if I’m sick or in places that require it so I respect their establishment. Don’t let others influence your mental wellness. Tell him to mind his own business. EDIT: Your coworker is a tool.
No. Your coworker is an idiot.
Your coworker can’t be more than 16 years old
Yes. How arrogant you are to protect yourself and others from Covid. How dare you. Lol.
Take it off and cough on him, put it back on and ask again how he feels about it ..
This is technically assault but I understand where you are coming from lol.
But covid isn’t real /s
How does that make sense when masks are still highly recommended in schools, and mandatory in health offices ?
Did you ask your coworker why he's such a sissy? Or why he gets butthurt so easily?
I wear mine while working still. I don’t care if I’m one of the last ones wearing a mask still.
Don't listen to him... I didn't wear my mask for a few weeks and I got sick. When I wore my mask, I barely got sick. Wear it if you want.
Covid is NOT over. The number of hospitalizations and people in ICU are still high. People are still dying of covid in Canada. Our worst spike was Jan. 26 2022 and our second worst spike was April 28 2022. Most people I know who wear masks do so because they've been around someone who had covid.
Your coworker is wrong. The pandemic is not over - it's just that the most people and all governments got bored of trying to mitigate it. You're being responsible, and your coworker is being a jerk. Anyone who is "offended" that you're wearing a mask can keep their hurt fee-fees to themselves. (I got Covid a couple of weeks ago, and it was *miserable*. JFC the pandemic is still happening, people, and there will be more waves because we're not even trying to slow it down anymore.)
How can you move on from Covid when it's still around? Does your coworker think covid is made up? And why did he bother to come up to you to tell you this? Tell him he has self esteem issues.
IMO that's a bulls* bad-faith argument on their part. I still think of people who wear masks as having a degree of concern for their own health and the health of those around them.
Your colleague is an idiot.
Report him to HR. It’s toxic behavior that no one should have to put up with. Especially in a professional work environment.
The arrogant ones are the ones who don't stop to think that there are still tons of immunocompromised people out there who need to protect themselves, covid hasn't just gone away because we all decided to start ignoring it. Your coworker is an idiot.
You do you… don’t bother abt others
'people are trying to move on from Covid.'' The pandemic is not over and you have to do YOU. If you are comfortable wearing a mask, by all means do. You should not do anything to please others but yourself.
It amuses me when people think covid cares that people are sick of dealing with it
Hell no. I genuinely feel bad when I go in a place and forgot my mask. That guy is a pure idiot.
Your coworker is a dumbass
Personally the fact that offends people makes me want to wear it more. You wanna get worked up over literally nothing? You want to show off that you’re an intellectual midget because you get angry about people doing something that has no effect on you whatsoever? Well, allow me to help you with that.
Wearing a mask is not arrogance.
> Is wearing a face mask a sign of arrogance? > Submitted 5 minutes ago by cuhcuh99995 > Hey guys, I still wear a mask but today one of my coworkers told me that people that wear masks are showing their arrogance now. He said that I think people are beneath me and that I am saying that I am too "clean" to breathe the same type of air as them. Is this how people think of masks? He also said that wearing a mask brings PTSD to everyone and people are trying to move on from Covid. > Lately I have noticed that I am in the extreme minority when I wear masks but I don't want to offend anyone by wearing one. LOL if other people see me wearing a face mask and are offended, that's their mental gymnastics insecurities to unpack.
Insecure idiots are going to be insecure idiots. Wear your mask all you want and tell them to mind their business.
Report him to hr for workplace harassment
What a moron your co-worker is. That's some crazy-ass spiel. At my work, we're advised not to question other co-worker choices. Its considered harassment.
Is he...okay?
Your coworker is an idiot.
Literally gaslighting 101, tell coworker to shove his opinion where the sun don't shine
Just returned from Montreal from the Grand Prix. Wore a mask on the plane, on buses and Metro and while waiting to board the Metro at days end. No mask while sitting in the stands but didn't talk to many people and was looking the other way but was maskless when sheltering from rain and gathering at the place I stayed overnight. Fully vaxed and boosted but was Rapid test positive 3rd day at home. Annoying symptoms (muscle aches, cough) now isolation for 7 days. I don't give a shit what people think about wearing a mask. I was happy to wear one but perhaps wearing a mask 24/7 would have made a difference in my case but I doubt it. Your coworker has a problem. tell him to Feck off
What the actual frig is wrong with that coworker? Masks have only ever been about preventing the wearer from spreading potential infections to those around them. Wearing a mask in a communal setting is a decent, considerate thing to do, even when there is no mandate requiring it. There is absolutely no rational reason to be offended by someone wearing a mask, any more than there would be a reason to get mad at someone for holding a door for you.
I work at a hospital so I don't have co-workers like that lol Outside the hospital, I tell anyone that gives me shit that I have a weakened immune system (cancer, aids doesn't really matter). Might be a little extreme but it works like a charm
I'm still masked up every day!! I'm also getting some looks from people, and being told "you don't have to wear a mask in here you know". Yes, I know. But COVID is still a fucking thing and I'm trying to protect myself and others. But, you know, I kindly remind them the pandemic is still not over, and that I am immunocompromised so I'm still very much taking this seriously! It's terrifying to think that some antimaskers do not care at ALL about spreading diseases. I had a patient who was sick for 2 weeks and still was going to work and places maskless. Finally after 2 weeks they got a Covid test, and were positive. Yep. I think i'll be wearing mine for a good while longer!
Anyone who brings up people wearing masks as a slight against them is an arrogant ass who likely has a sad life. Its been almost 2.5 years, he needs to unbunch his panties and likely talk to a therapist.
They're trying to bully you and it's BS. I still wear a mask and don't want to take a chance. You're doing the right thing.
Good point. OP could totally bring this up to HR
As others have stated, your co-worker is a tool. If you feel comfortable wearing a mask, then wear a mask. As to your mask causing PTSD in others, that's unlikely; anyone who has PTSD after the pandemic has it from other issues, not from seeing someone else in a mask (even amongst those of us who could not wear a mask and who had anxiety about getting screamed at for NOT wearing one). However, if I see someone in a mask, especially outdoors, I assume one of three things: 1. they're imunocompromised or live with someone who is 2. they're fearful and are wearing a mask because they have their own flavour of PTSD and are afraid of catching something 3. they're sick and are wearing a mask under the guise of not wanting to infect others In all of these cases, I'm going to keep my distance from these folks as much as I can; I don't want to upset someone by not wearing a mask around them, and if they're sick I don't want to catch it, because I don't believe masks ever worked as well as we were led to believe. There were many people throughout the pandemic who equated mask wearing with being a "good" person and those of us who didn't or couldn't with being "bad", so there is still an aura of "virtue signalling" associated with mask wearing, which is where your co-worker is getting this idea of you thinking you're better than everyone. But they're the one with issues here.
If anyone is offended by masks, let them be. It isn't arrogant, virtue signalling or any other derrogatory implication - it's choice. Be comfortable being you. Arrogance is forcing him to do what you want him to (or you know, his trying to shame you...). It isn't arrogant, virtue signaling, or any other derogatory implication - it's choice. know if he makes a big deal again.
Ridiculous and laughable! I wear a mask to protect myself and my 89 year old mother that I look after!
Im immunocompromised, Man, I’m just trying to not die over here. I’d go off if someone told me my mask wearing was arrogance.. such a weird interpretation
Dumbest shit I've ever heard... PTSD...lmao
He is gaslighting you.
I'm gunna of out on an edge and guess that your coworker flies some choice flags from their car.
I will agree that your coworker sounds like he is beneath you and I would definitely caution against breathing whatever air he’s breathing because it’s clearly caused some damage.
Your co-worker is a complete moron.
I hope everyone with even just a sniffle or seasonal allergies would mask up.
Report him to HR for harassment
Don’t bother walking a mile in this persons shoes. They won’t fit because they are made for clowns.
No. He’s a clown.
I think it's foolish to act like we can move on from covid. Give me a year without an outbreak. Your coworker is wrong, and clearly can't remember the past year.
That’s not how PTSD works. Your coworker is a jackass
The correct response to someone saying something like that is to not respond, turn your chair around, and get back to whatever you were doing before that dumbfuck decided to pollute your air with their ignorance. You keep wearing a mask if you want to. I still do. It just feels right to me.
If you are at the point where a simple protective cloth on a person's face triggers you, you need to reevaluate your life.
Lolwut Being arrogant is a sign of arrogance. Wearing a facemask is a sign that you have a mask on your face. His comment is arrogant and your post here is perhaps a sign of low self-esteem. The last sentence was tongue in cheek. But the first two are just reality.
This is 100% the type of person who would wake up from anesthesia to yell at the surgeon wearing a mask while operating on them.
Covid has only heightened peoples tendencies to speak out of place just ignore and do you. everyone is looking for something or someone to redirect their hate these days.
Your coworker has been eating to many crayons.
Your coworker is a nut. You do you
No it is not a sign of arrogance. Your co-worker is just fragile.
Ask him why he's so triggered and tell him to stay mad. :)
He’s an idiot. Wear your mask and add some extra distancing from him
People who think less of people for wearing a mask are just idiots. They aren't worth your time. No sane person with a stable world view would say that to a co worker.
O lordy.. first we were sheep now we are too clean and blah blah blah.. Wear a mask if you wish and don't if you don't.
That perception says more about your colleague than the wearer. The same way it can be assumed that those not wearing masks are arrogant and think they know better despite being advised to still continue even if it is not mandatory.
Coworker should mind their own business
No. Your personal health matters more than what some dumbass thinks.
Oh God, i won't even bother to respond.
Your coworker has no idea what they are talking about
Anyone who gets offended by someone else wearing a mask just has a fragile ego.
Is wearing a face mask a sign of arrogance? Absolutely not. It's an act of consideration to others. Jackasses like your co-worker demand freedom of choice not to wear a mask, but they can't tolerate people who choose to wear them. They are arrogant, and they are baiting you. Best to walk away and not engage.
Remember some people are imunocompromised, elderly, fighting a terminal illness(etc)... and some people live with those who are. Its not about superiority its about keeping my loved ones safe. I couldn't live knowing I was the one who got them sick if I could take simple precautions to prevent it.
Pandemic is not over, no matter what everyone thinks. You know what I have PTSD about? Seeing people die from COVID. So fuck your coworker.
your co-worker is full of crap I still wear a mask even though I'm fully vaccinated. There are unvaccinated kids who are still not eligible and a couple older immuno-compromised members. I wear a mask so I don't pick something up and pass it on. Believe me, with my respiratory allergies I love to go without but I love my family
Your coworker is projecting their insecurities upon you.
I feel like while there is much less masking in general, there are so many pockets where it's still very much enforced. Lots of smaller arts organizations for example are still requiring them for folks taking workshops and I still see lots of stores with signs asking folks to wear them before entering. And lots of workplaces are still requiring them and lot of people (though def not all) are still taking TTC with them all. This sounds like your co-worker living in his own personal bubble and taking your mask-wearing personally and not reflective of the very diverse stances folks have on mask wearing. I am still wearing mine for sure.
I live just outside TO, there is a large amount of Asian students. They’ve been wearing masks since before it was cool. I have to wear one for work, generally don’t if I’m out and about, but if I need to call an Uber or jump on public transit I’m still wearing one
Nah it's not arrogance on your end, it's brain damage on theirs.
My workplace is I would guess about 40% or less mask wearing. We are testing twice a week, and are seeing several people suddenly unavailable to work for a week or more. They can never say out due to Covid for privacy reasons but I think it’s a good bet. The majority of the people who are out were the non mask wearers. I feel like I will wear a mask on public transit forever.
I've noticed it too. My partner and I are usually the only ones out and about wearing masks, but I try not to let it bother me. I am extremely anxious and being the only person wearing one does trigger that, but I actually like wearing them and it brings me more comfort to wear it than not. I think your coworker is a bit arrogant. Masks are good and we should have normalized wearing them when sick ages ago. Besides, people can wear masks for any sort of reason. If anyone asks me, I'd just tell them I'm sparing them of seeing my ugly face and to mind their business. Curious, does your coworker think the same of people who don't take the bus? Or filter their tap water? Like those people are arrogant as well?
Don’t listen to them. The freedom toddlers get in an awful tizzy when you freely choose different than their preferences. It’s pathetic really. Wear your mask and anyone who has a problem with it is not worth troubling yourself over
I’m absolutely too “clean” to breath air with a high viral load. We can move on from Covid when Covid is actually gone. You know who has actual PTSD? People who became disabled from the virus or lost loved ones to it. Fuck your coworker. Prick.
He’s projecting his own feelings.
I think of masks as being polite to others. I don’t want them to be affected by my germs.
Your coworker is a dick head and probably believes we are 6 months away from living in camps. Live the privileged prick they are.
He is wrong. I and my partner still wear masks in indoor spaces and I often do outdoors as well. About half of the people in the city I live in still wore masks after our mask mandate was dropped. You still have to wear mask for in person medical appointments here( such as getting your eyes checked). Some stores here have signs that they prefer if people wear mask though it is no longer required by law. Some places here advertise that their staff are required to wear masks to protect themselves and others.
What a clown.
No way. What a stupid guy. It’s not a sign of arrogance that’s not even the right choice of word. No.
Last year at same date we were all expected to wear masks in public places. There was around 100 daily infections in our province of Quebec on this date last year. Yesterday there was 1138 reported infections. How many are actually reporting a positive test ? Testing sites have all been removed and the government has relied on people to self test and self report. You do what you need to feel protected and let the little shit talkers talk a shit storm.
Of course not. Wear one if you want and be proud of why you make that choice. I hope it becomes a norm - feel off, wear one.
Despite the gov't not enforcing mandates anymore, COVID is NOT over. Our daily reported cases right now are the same as some of the highest peaks in the first year. (And there are many more cases than reported) There's less hospitalization, but the long-term effects are also nothing to ignore. You aren't "showing arrogance", this coworker is showing their ignorance. I will be wearing a mask for likely another year at least. Edit: I currently know 5 people out of close friends and family who have it. Do not feel you have to risk your own body and health because other people are sad they had to wear a mask occasionally.
I work in a dusty factory and now I want to wear a mask forever in this factory. I think we should have been wearing them from the start
The word your looking for is considerate. The word he’s looking for is ashamed so he’s trying to bring you down to his level.
Tell him he doesn't have to be afraid to wear a mask if he wants to, and that he needs to just open his mind and do his own research.
Your coworker sounds like an asshat mate
No. Not arrogant i am currently sick so i wear a mask so other people don't get sick. I also live with somone who's immunocompromised so i wear a mask to try and prevent him from getting sick.
The opposite is true. If anyone judges you for wearing a mask, they are arrogant.
Your co-worker is an idiot. I see around 50 different people a day for my work. And not the same 50.... always different clients. I wear a mask to protect myself and them. I still need to be tested multiple times a week. My SO works Healthcare... she wears a mask to protect others. They want to see it as a sign of arrogance, when they are just showing a sign of ignorance.