HGMilstead
Active Member
every time I was asked to wear a mask (before Covid) I did, without complaint. Sadly, I did and do find myself needing to spend time around immunocompromised folks, and never once did it occur to me to feel guilted about needing to wear a mask.
Whatever my feelings about being asked to wear a mask are (and before Covid those feelings often involved being concerned or a little scared at the severity of a situation, maybe a teensy creeped out as I had associated masks with scenarios in sci fi movies or that movie “outbreak”), they are feelings. And the facts were more important than those feelings (and still are).
I may not like it or whatever, but it’s a basic medical courtesy that was asked of me.
Other people are evidently so focused on their feelings about being told or asked to wear a mask — fears of Marxism, annoyance that the request is overblown, feeling inconvenienced — that they take those feelings to be more important than other things. The eye-popping irony is that these complaints come from people who otherwise bitch and moan about people being too delicate or sensitive and are therefore incapable of dealing with reality.
tl;dr. Yes I wear and wore masks when asked to do so for the benefit of others, even when doing so made me feel negatively, even when I didn’t feel confident about the efficacy. Others need to manage their feelings better, too.
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