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Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🏃🚴🏋️ Friday, June 14, 2024

Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I know I’m going to get called preachy and whiny or whatever but here goes:

Please wear a mask. I get that the anti-maskers won and social pressures make you feel self conscious, and people absolutely do give weird looks when they see people wearing masks, but the current sickness going around is totally preventable.

I have a chronic condition and even a mild illness can massively reduce my quality of life. I’m required to frequently go out and be in close proximity with people, and it’s at the point where most people I see have a cough. I just want to not be at risk.

KN95 masks are a good balance between efficacy and price. Those blue surgical masks are easiest to find, but aren’t great. N95s can be too expensive.

Please please please just consider wearing them when out.

Besides all that it’ll make for an easier adjustment when Pandemic 2: Electric Birdflugaloo comes around.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
…you bitch about my mask, I’m a gonna show up with my fucking 3m 100PM respirator on. Bright pink and hardcore vader noises.

Actually I’ma gonna get another one and art it up. We’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia anyway, may as well dress for the occasion.

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- mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Personally I’m going more for a Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan look
  
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- PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I like your style!
  
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I find it easier to mask up when I leave the house and just keep it on, taking them on and on is also unhygienic

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melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I never stopped wearing a mask. I’m very possibly immunocompromised and don’t want long covid. During lockdowns I’d always get dickhead men trying to intimidate me for wearing a mask and pick a fight about it. 🙄 Big heroes harassing tiny lone disabled women.

But I really wish it would become just normal and accepted to mask up like in Asia. It’s polite, it’s hygienic, doesn’t really cost much and you could be saving yourself or someone else a nasty flu. And frankly anyone who doesn’t do it in a pandemic is not being logical.

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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Happy to oblige, you won’t get any arguments from me. I don’t give a damn about antimaskers or weird looks, but being a large solidly built middle-aged woman in steel caps can tend to put people off talking to me on public transport about their antimask bullshit. I’m the only one in my house with a job, and as a casual employee I can’t afford time off due to totally preventable illness. The colds/flus/whatever they are going around at the moment are dynamite. My MIL is 90 and frail, my partner has many health issues, and I don’t have time for people who think they’re clever passing their ignorant bigotry towards the immunocompromised. I’m sorry you and Melba have had to deal with mean spirited inconsiderate twits. It’s actually easier to be considerate anyway.

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