CoachRTM said:
Seersucker Ag 2011 said:
CoachRTM said:
I don't understand the people who are upset with others wearing masks. If you don't want to wear one, don't. If a store requires it, either put it on or go somewhere else. 5 years from now when COVID is just a memory, there will still be some people wearing masks - it was common in Asia even before COVID, and I would imagine something similar will happen now here.
Maybe it's just me, but life's too short to get triggered by every person walking around in a mask when it is a personal/ business choice on whether or not they are wearing it (in Texas anyway).
.... And this is coming from someone who thinks that wearing masks is just emotion theater the way 99% of people wear them.
People absolutely have the right to continue to wear masks or any other silly stuff that they want to wear. Businesses absolutely have the right to require masks or any other silly stuff they want to require.
But many people are sheep and won't ditch the mask until others do as well. I went to a completely outdoor event in a huge, spread out park this past weekend and probably 75% of the 2000+ people there wore masks throughout. There was no requirement, there's no state or local mask mandate in place, and there's honestly no risk since it was outside and completely spread out. Yet, the masks continue.
Is it their right? Sure. Is it good for us as a society? Absolutely not. I'm not "triggered" by others wearing masks. But, especially in outdoor situations, it's disheartening.
Ok, so you are disheartened by others' decisions that they personally make. I can understand that. Can you also understand why they would be disheartened by your decision to not wear one? From their vantage point, wearing a mask is (at worst) a minor inconvenience that could "save lives".
Take who is right out of the equation, because they believe you are just as wrong as you believe they are.
Personally, I'm disheartened but the sheer numbers of people, many of whom I once thought as intelligent and rational people, who completely abandon all semblance of reason and rational analysis. The people who unquestioningly follow the government and news media and help continue to peddle fear porn on a massive scale. People who absolutely refuse to take a step back, look at everything with a critical eye and truly thing but rather retreat into a hysterical paranoia. People who are not only willing but practically rush to cede their personal liberty and status as a free and free thinking individual to a government over something that will only seriously impact a minuscule percentage of the population. And I'm disheartened by people who are so wrapped up in their fear and anxiety that they complete lose all semblance of normalcy and completely attack those who actually have taken a reasoned approach and really looked at the data.
I'm disheartened that any time a legitimate expert presents real factual analysis and study that shows this whole thing isn't nearly as bad as the covidians have claimed is mercilessly attacked.
I'm disheartened because this whole thing has made it abundantly clear that vast numbers of doctors have zero connection to reality. They seem to not understand that on a long enough timeline everyone's chances of survival drop to zero and instead wish to encase us all in protective bubbles.
And you cannot take "who is right" out of the equation. The data shows the covidians are wrong and have been all along. Empathizing with their beliefs is nothing more than enabling a delusion not grounded in fact.