Thread by @JoekillianPW

Somehow missed that Tucker Carlson, who has an enormous cable TV audience, has been encouraging his viewers to challenge other people in public as to why they're wearing masks. He suggests saying their masks make you uncomfortable.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

From the Carlson's call to action:
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The next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or the bike path, don't hesitate. Ask politely but firmly: 'Would you please take off your mask? Science shows there is no reason to wear it. Your mask is making me uncomfortable.'"

He continues:

"We should do that, and we should keep doing it, until wearing a mask outdoors is roughly as socially accepted as lighting a Marlboro in an elevator. It's repulsive. Don't do it around other people. That's the message we should send because it's true."

This may explain why I've had a few people do this to me over the last few months - indoors and outside, when I'm around crowds.

Heard a stranger posed this question as he was masking up to enter a grocery store. His response has become my standard one: "Mind your business."

Actually, the guy outside the grocery store said, "Mind your [expletive] business."

But I've found you can get the point across with the same energy with just a look and body language.

I've yet to have anyone *politely* inquire about my mask. But if Tucker Carlson himself did so in his most genteel manner, with his pinky raised, I wouldn't particularly care if it made him uncomfortable.

It's not my job, particularly in a pandemic, to worry about whether my safety measures discomfort people whose general resting state appears to be "white knuckling it through a hemorrhoid."