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When I do go out, it doesnt go on until I am at the threshold of a store and is the same place it comes off when I am leaving.
And depending on where you live, that should be fine, right? And exactly who is this boogie man that walks up to you and says you're an anti-masker? Outside of some fanatics on the internet, that seldom happens ( that's a bit of a straw man).
And depending on where you live, that should be fine, right? And exactly who is this boogie man that walks up to you and says you're an anti-masker? Outside of some fanatics on the internet, that seldom happens ( that's a bit of a straw man).
I hate when I am considered an "anti masker". I am not anti mask, I just dont see the need to wear one. If the need was there, I would not have any issues wearing one. I dislike the mask wearing so much though that I have reduced the amount I actually go out. I have no desire to do anything wearing a mask. When I do go out, it doesnt go on until I am at the threshold of a store and is the same place it comes off when I am leaving.
Yes, there's a lot of misuse of terminology going on. "Anti-masker" has become a slur used to describe any of the following:
-- Someone who happens not be wearing a mask at any given time. Unless this person has specifically stated an opposition to mask wearing, they're not necessarily an anti-masker. Instead, they're an unmasked person. I ride public transit to and from work, and I occasionally see an unmasked passenger. Usually, it's not the stereotype of an angry white man protesting against mask mandates, but instead someone who just seems sort of down-and-out and may not understand the mandate or the need to comply with it.
-- Someone who believes that wearing a mask on a temporary basis during a pandemic is a smart and altruistic thing to do but sees a government mandate, particularly one without a sunset date or defined criteria for repeal, as a step too far. I fall in that category and I consider myself anti-mandate, not anti-mask. I wear a mask in all settings where one is required (or even requested), but some absolutists would still call me an "anti-masker" for my anti-mandate views.
-- Someone who not only declines to wear a mask but also urges others not to do so, often invoking questionable claims about harms allegedly done by masks. It is only people in this last category that I would truly consider "anti-maskers."
Yes, there's a lot of misuse of terminology going on. "Anti-masker" has become a slur used to describe any of the following:
-- Someone who happens not be wearing a mask at any given time. Unless this person has specifically stated an opposition to mask wearing, they're not necessarily an anti-masker. Instead, they're an unmasked person. I ride public transit to and from work, and I occasionally see an unmasked passenger. Usually, it's not the stereotype of an angry white man protesting against mask mandates, but instead someone who just seems sort of down-and-out and may not understand the mandate or the need to comply with it.
-- Someone who believes that wearing a mask on a temporary basis during a pandemic is a smart and altruistic thing to do but sees a government mandate, particularly one without a sunset date or defined criteria for repeal, as a step too far. I fall in that category and I consider myself anti-mandate, not anti-mask. I wear a mask in all settings where one is required (or even requested), but some absolutists would still call me an "anti-masker" for my anti-mandate views.
-- Someone who not only declines to wear a mask but also urges others not to do so, often invoking questionable claims about harms allegedly done by masks. It is only people in this last category that I would truly consider "anti-maskers."
Anti-masker often means you have common sense. And that you listen to what is actually said, not just parroting what CNN tells you.
When you see Fauci wearing a chin diaper at a baseball game, hear the Governor of Pennsylvania talk about political theater as he takes his mask off, see the Speaker of the House ignore rules on closing salons and wearing masks, ..... you know that most of what you hear is pure bs.
Masks have their role. It is much more limited than CNN and the politicians tell you.
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I hate when I am considered an "anti masker". I am not anti mask, I just dont see the need to wear one. If the need was there, I would not have any issues wearing one. I dislike the mask wearing so much though that I have reduced the amount I actually go out. I have no desire to do anything wearing a mask. When I do go out, it doesnt go on until I am at the threshold of a store and is the same place it comes off when I am leaving.
Anyone who calls you an anti-masker is doing it to shame you into believing as fervently as they do in the myth that we must all be responsible for the well-being of every living person on the planet.
I wear it to protect the merchants in my town from getting fines for not enforcing so-called "mask laws".
I just came from a store sans mask (I never wear one). Some women said "it's all fun and games until someone goes on ventilator" and angrily walked out. I didn't say anything, because truthfully she said it so fast that I wasn't 100% sure that is what she said. It came out muffled and difficult to understand. She was angry no doubt, but the anger seemed to be directed at the clerks and not me.
As far as I'm concerned her delusion is her own problem, not mine or the clerks that work there.
I just came from a store sans mask (I never wear one). Some women said "it's all fun and games until someone goes on ventilator" and angrily walked out. I didn't say anything, because truthfully she said it so fast that I wasn't 100% sure that is what she said. It came out muffled and difficult to understand. She was angry no doubt, but the anger seemed to be directed at the clerks and not me.
As far as I'm concerned her delusion is her own problem, not mine or the clerks that work there.
So to you everybody needs to get over their cowardice toward the coronavirus and face up to it without a mask? To do so would sure make a courageous stand for personal freedom and further recover the economy?
Piece of garbage police officer picks on innocent elderly man and woman and arrests them- even though they did nothing wrong. This police officer needs to be arrested- never mind fired.
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