Yes, this.
I’m feeling very, very tired this afternoon of the “why are these people still wearing masks” discourse — and wondering whatever happened to “you know what, this is none of my business.”
I’m feeling very, very tired this afternoon of the “why are these people still wearing masks” discourse — and wondering whatever happened to “you know what, this is none of my business.”
https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/1389635742343782404
There’s just something about the tone of much such commentary that calls to mind, frankly, field notes from an anthropological expedition.
https://twitter.com/powellnyt/status/1389603739770757126
The wearing of masks amounts to a _very_ low-effort measure to signal to others that I have their welfare in mind — irrespective of my confidence that the risk of spread outdoors is low. I don’t know what others fear or have gone through.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1389605739400937473
Wearing masks consistently also helps me maintain a clear, simple rule with my kids, who need to wear masks in certain places. As a parent, I ask you to trust me: kids benefit from the structure of clear, simple rules, ones without 13 different codicils and exceptions.
https://twitter.com/SaraLibby/status/1389605912789151747
Last, let me concede something for the sake of argument: sure, wearing a mask now that I’m vaccinated amounts to theater for the comfort of others.
Well …
Well …
As a Black guy who’s moved thru affluent, mostly white spaces for decades, I find this chafing at mask theater after a mere year quietly hilarious.
I’ve subtly performed for others’ assurance, consciously and otherwise, for ages. Another few weeks of a mask is too much? Really?
I’ve subtly performed for others’ assurance, consciously and otherwise, for ages. Another few weeks of a mask is too much? Really?
Hi, there; “irrational” adult here.
I’m vaccinated, but my kids aren’t. As I’m not practiced to abandoning them to fend for themselves while I go about my blissful vaxxed life, I continue to mask in public as a signal to them.
I’m vaccinated, but my kids aren’t. As I’m not practiced to abandoning them to fend for themselves while I go about my blissful vaxxed life, I continue to mask in public as a signal to them.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1389590782605205509
This doesn’t mean I haven’t relaxed other precautions. My wife, who had the J&J shot, just visited an elderly grandparent after they had spent a brief time in the hospital. She and I plan to have vaccinated guests over outside, sans masks, soon.
But to quibble with Nate’s armchair psychologizing, I’m not crazy about know-it-alls who get judgmental when people have perfectly good reasons to eschew pretending that the pandemic is over.
Again: as a Black guy who’s moved thru affluent, mostly white spaces for decades, I’ve subtly performed for others’ assurance — consciously and otherwise — for ages.
Other people wearing masks for a few more weeks is too much to bear in silence? Really?
Other people wearing masks for a few more weeks is too much to bear in silence? Really?
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1393307296583802881
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