People still masking every day at work

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I'm more struck by those who are so triggered by the few wearing masks. I hope something studies their paranoia and they can get the help they need.

It's amusing watching defensive people justify their antics. When you do something very visible, of course people are going to comment and wonder, even if politely from a distance.

It's like watching the pro-Gaza protestors storm the Google offices. All young. All wearing masks. Nobody else at Google was wearing a mask. What was the point of masking? What were they trying to attempt or show? Or did they all have cancer?

Your first line gives you away. You are unkind. You describe mask-wearing, most often done by people with medical conditions, as "antics". And it amuses you to have people politely explain why they wear one? What is wrong with you?

The people really "justifying their antics" on here are the anti-mask people. But there no hiding how unkind and lacking in compassion you are. People point it out and you come back with more nonsense like the above.

You're assuming most people wearing masks are doing so due to medical conditions. I seriously doubt this because otherwise in most of the country people are vastly healthier than people in DC....

I am aware some do wear masks for health reasons but it's also usually obvious when that is the case.

There's a difference between compassion and enabling people's delusions. Do I go around mocking people in public? No, of course not. But as someone who lived through the years when people were ranting at those not wearing masks for killing grandma even if the masks were the flimsy cloth ones that did nothing, and who virtuously wore masks to supermarkets but not when their bestie was visiting (hint, where do you get COVID?), I still find all this desperate clutching to masking both amusing and telling. Such as those student protesters.

Enabling delusions? You think you are fighting for the truth going on like this on DCUM? Your whole last paragraph makes it sound like you are the one stuck in post-pandemic trauma. No one is making you mask. There are no mandates. We have the benefit of several years of discussion on proper mask usage.

If someone is still wearing a mask, there is a good chance they have a medical reason. And I disagree that you can "tell" when people have medical conditions that require a mask. In many cases, you can't. A number of people have mentioned long-covid and bad covid experiences as their motivation. Understandable. A number of people have mentioned long-covid and bad covid experiences as their motivation. Understandable. People have also cited allergies, which, as a lifelong allergy sufferer, sounds like a legit reason to me. Those will be some of the outdoor maskers. Again, what is your problem? And finally, if someone is just anxious, why can't you have some compassion? There are many different forms of mental illness going on in our society. Why should anxiety be mocked? Would you mock someone with depression? Bipolar disorder?

Oh wait, you probably would. You find it amusing.

At the end of the day, your post suggests exactly what I said. You are unkind. You try to justify your attitude and unkind words, but there is no excuse. I hope in the real world you really do keep all your bad attitude and meanness in your own head, but I'm guessing people who know you know what kind of person you are.

DP.

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Anonymous wrote:I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

This is bizarre. The lower paid workers typically wear a mask because they can't afford to be off work while they are sick. So they are either trying to protect themselves or they are already sick and at work.

When a friend got covid, she was going to the supermarket because she likes to choose her own tomatoes. No wonder the workers wear masks.

And? People have been going to stores with the sniffles for decades and it will continue to happen. We are human and part of being human is that you’ll catch a cold every now and then. Did you want her welded inside her house??

Let me guess. You're religious.

I agree with pp but what does religion have to do with this? I’m not religious. People get sick. Or does that not follow the science ? lol

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I'm more struck by those who are so triggered by the few wearing masks. I hope something studies their paranoia and they can get the help they need.

It's amusing watching defensive people justify their antics. When you do something very visible, of course people are going to comment and wonder, even if politely from a distance.

It's like watching the pro-Gaza protestors storm the Google offices. All young. All wearing masks. Nobody else at Google was wearing a mask. What was the point of masking? What were they trying to attempt or show? Or did they all have cancer?

Your first line gives you away. You are unkind. You describe mask-wearing, most often done by people with medical conditions, as "antics". And it amuses you to have people politely explain why they wear one? What is wrong with you?

The people really "justifying their antics" on here are the anti-mask people. But there no hiding how unkind and lacking in compassion you are. People point it out and you come back with more nonsense like the above.

You're assuming most people wearing masks are doing so due to medical conditions. I seriously doubt this because otherwise in most of the country people are vastly healthier than people in DC....

I am aware some do wear masks for health reasons but it's also usually obvious when that is the case.

There's a difference between compassion and enabling people's delusions. Do I go around mocking people in public? No, of course not. But as someone who lived through the years when people were ranting at those not wearing masks for killing grandma even if the masks were the flimsy cloth ones that did nothing, and who virtuously wore masks to supermarkets but not when their bestie was visiting (hint, where do you get COVID?), I still find all this desperate clutching to masking both amusing and telling. Such as those student protesters.

My besties couldn't visit due to my condition, which you couldn't even pronounce. Most doctors don't even know about it. It is diagnosed by multiple blood tests over time as well as by internal symptoms not visible to nut job know-it-alls.

Why not share the name?

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I'm more struck by those who are so triggered by the few wearing masks. I hope something studies their paranoia and they can get the help they need.

It's amusing watching defensive people justify their antics. When you do something very visible, of course people are going to comment and wonder, even if politely from a distance.

It's like watching the pro-Gaza protestors storm the Google offices. All young. All wearing masks. Nobody else at Google was wearing a mask. What was the point of masking? What were they trying to attempt or show? Or did they all have cancer?

Your first line gives you away. You are unkind. You describe mask-wearing, most often done by people with medical conditions, as "antics". And it amuses you to have people politely explain why they wear one? What is wrong with you?

The people really "justifying their antics" on here are the anti-mask people. But there no hiding how unkind and lacking in compassion you are. People point it out and you come back with more nonsense like the above.

You're assuming most people wearing masks are doing so due to medical conditions. I seriously doubt this because otherwise in most of the country people are vastly healthier than people in DC....

I am aware some do wear masks for health reasons but it's also usually obvious when that is the case.

There's a difference between compassion and enabling people's delusions. Do I go around mocking people in public? No, of course not. But as someone who lived through the years when people were ranting at those not wearing masks for killing grandma even if the masks were the flimsy cloth ones that did nothing, and who virtuously wore masks to supermarkets but not when their bestie was visiting (hint, where do you get COVID?), I still find all this desperate clutching to masking both amusing and telling. Such as those student protesters.

My besties couldn't visit due to my condition, which you couldn't even pronounce. Most doctors don't even know about it. It is diagnosed by multiple blood tests over time as well as by internal symptoms not visible to nut job know-it-alls.

Why not share the name?

Why do you need the name?

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I'm more struck by those who are so triggered by the few wearing masks. I hope something studies their paranoia and they can get the help they need.

It's amusing watching defensive people justify their antics. When you do something very visible, of course people are going to comment and wonder, even if politely from a distance.

It's like watching the pro-Gaza protestors storm the Google offices. All young. All wearing masks. Nobody else at Google was wearing a mask. What was the point of masking? What were they trying to attempt or show? Or did they all have cancer?

Your first line gives you away. You are unkind. You describe mask-wearing, most often done by people with medical conditions, as "antics". And it amuses you to have people politely explain why they wear one? What is wrong with you?

The people really "justifying their antics" on here are the anti-mask people. But there no hiding how unkind and lacking in compassion you are. People point it out and you come back with more nonsense like the above.

You're assuming most people wearing masks are doing so due to medical conditions. I seriously doubt this because otherwise in most of the country people are vastly healthier than people in DC....

I am aware some do wear masks for health reasons but it's also usually obvious when that is the case.

There's a difference between compassion and enabling people's delusions. Do I go around mocking people in public? No, of course not. But as someone who lived through the years when people were ranting at those not wearing masks for killing grandma even if the masks were the flimsy cloth ones that did nothing, and who virtuously wore masks to supermarkets but not when their bestie was visiting (hint, where do you get COVID?), I still find all this desperate clutching to masking both amusing and telling. Such as those student protesters.

You are not a good person. Seek help.

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Anonymous wrote:I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

This is bizarre. The lower paid workers typically wear a mask because they can't afford to be off work while they are sick. So they are either trying to protect themselves or they are already sick and at work.

When a friend got covid, she was going to the supermarket because she likes to choose her own tomatoes. No wonder the workers wear masks.

And? People have been going to stores with the sniffles for decades and it will continue to happen. We are human and part of being human is that you’ll catch a cold every now and then. Did you want her welded inside her house??

Your simple cold is no big deal to you but it can be deadly to others.

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Masks are common in other cultures and for those with ongoing health problems. Sometimes a person doesn't want to get sick before going on a trip.

What difference does it make to others and why do medical masks make conservatives angsty?

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few people at my federal office who are still masking every day. One of them wears rubber gloves and masks-up every day. One of them drives to work while masked up, alone, in her car.

Should I assume they are unvaxxed? Just super paranoid or something??

I find this so weird.

If they have weak immune system, they need to try to minimize risk of infections in every way possible.

The pandemic has convinced a large number of people that they're suddenly and significantly immunocompromised. And some are, but many aren't. If you're not on corticosteroids, biologics, chemo, or radiation therapy, you're probably not significantly immunocompromised.

You have no basis for this statement other than the fact that you are....a big jerk. Who do you think you are? Are the spirit reader? A DCUM psychic.

go away.

You haven't noticed a significant increase in the number of people claiming to be immunocompromised? Where were all these people during previous flu seasons?

No.

Do you mean in your day-to-day or here on DCUM?

I think you are noticing more because you are paying attention to it. I do think people talk about it more, because of how the pandemic changed discussions about health. Maybe they kept it to themselves more.

Why weren't these people similarly concerned during flu seasons?

What makes you think it's just covid? I'm more concerned about colds and flu. Time for you to get mental health treatment for your anxiety with masks and your lack of empathy. Perhaps its a personality disorder?

Cool. But you know we had cold, flu, and masks in 2019, right?

Cool, so why do you care if others make choices different from you? You know it's been 5 years now and some have developed health issues since then? Oh wait, that goes back to empathy and you have none.

Still waiting for your diagnosis or medical test results.

Keep waiting. Maybe hold your breath while doing it.

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Anonymous wrote:They're either physically or mentally ill. Generally the later.

And I say this as a primary care physician who has a panel of 2000 patients that I know very well.

Yes, you know all 2000 of them intimately, I’m sure—as well as who they have at home and who they see regularly and the whole bit. You’re a fund of knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

I'm more struck by those who are so triggered by the few wearing masks. I hope something studies their paranoia and they can get the help they need.

It's amusing watching defensive people justify their antics. When you do something very visible, of course people are going to comment and wonder, even if politely from a distance.

It's like watching the pro-Gaza protestors storm the Google offices. All young. All wearing masks. Nobody else at Google was wearing a mask. What was the point of masking? What were they trying to attempt or show? Or did they all have cancer?

Your first line gives you away. You are unkind. You describe mask-wearing, most often done by people with medical conditions, as "antics". And it amuses you to have people politely explain why they wear one? What is wrong with you?

The people really "justifying their antics" on here are the anti-mask people. But there no hiding how unkind and lacking in compassion you are. People point it out and you come back with more nonsense like the above.

You're assuming most people wearing masks are doing so due to medical conditions. I seriously doubt this because otherwise in most of the country people are vastly healthier than people in DC....

I am aware some do wear masks for health reasons but it's also usually obvious when that is the case.

There's a difference between compassion and enabling people's delusions. Do I go around mocking people in public? No, of course not. But as someone who lived through the years when people were ranting at those not wearing masks for killing grandma even if the masks were the flimsy cloth ones that did nothing, and who virtuously wore masks to supermarkets but not when their bestie was visiting (hint, where do you get COVID?), I still find all this desperate clutching to masking both amusing and telling. Such as those student protesters.

Enabling delusions? You think you are fighting for the truth going on like this on DCUM? Your whole last paragraph makes it sound like you are the one stuck in post-pandemic trauma. No one is making you mask. There are no mandates. We have the benefit of several years of discussion on proper mask usage.

If someone is still wearing a mask, there is a good chance they have a medical reason. And I disagree that you can "tell" when people have medical conditions that require a mask. In many cases, you can't. A number of people have mentioned long-covid and bad covid experiences as their motivation. Understandable. A number of people have mentioned long-covid and bad covid experiences as their motivation. Understandable. People have also cited allergies, which, as a lifelong allergy sufferer, sounds like a legit reason to me. Those will be some of the outdoor maskers. Again, what is your problem? And finally, if someone is just anxious, why can't you have some compassion? There are many different forms of mental illness going on in our society. Why should anxiety be mocked? Would you mock someone with depression? Bipolar disorder?

Oh wait, you probably would. You find it amusing.

At the end of the day, your post suggests exactly what I said. You are unkind. You try to justify your attitude and unkind words, but there is no excuse. I hope in the real world you really do keep all your bad attitude and meanness in your own head, but I'm guessing people who know you know what kind of person you are.

One of the most astute things I heard recently is that being kind isn't always the right thing to do. Sometimes being unkind is the right thing to do. We often forget this these days.

Some people are obviously very triggered by the critiques of masking. There are those like me who are amused to see people's behaviors pre and post COVID despite pretty much the same set of situation and the new excuses people come up with to justify their masking when they could have easily masked pre COVID. But we didn't because the medical advice at the time was that masking really didn't work. And that's the truth. It really doesn't work because of human nature. And there's no denying many of those who still mask are not doing so for health reasons but for other reasons, like the student protesters in their sit-ins.

I can tell from the long list of excuses that you have a strong belief in masking and that's great for you. It's a form of comfort to you. Meanwhile, the rest of us got on with life and reality a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

This is bizarre. The lower paid workers typically wear a mask because they can't afford to be off work while they are sick. So they are either trying to protect themselves or they are already sick and at work.

When a friend got covid, she was going to the supermarket because she likes to choose her own tomatoes. No wonder the workers wear masks.

And? People have been going to stores with the sniffles for decades and it will continue to happen. We are human and part of being human is that you’ll catch a cold every now and then. Did you want her welded inside her house??

Let me guess. You're religious.

I agree with pp but what does religion have to do with this? I’m not religious. People get sick. Or does that not follow the science ? lol

As far as sicknesses, mental illness is a type of sickness which appears largely responsible for people still masking in 2024.

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Anonymous wrote:I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

This is bizarre. The lower paid workers typically wear a mask because they can't afford to be off work while they are sick. So they are either trying to protect themselves or they are already sick and at work.

When a friend got covid, she was going to the supermarket because she likes to choose her own tomatoes. No wonder the workers wear masks.

And? People have been going to stores with the sniffles for decades and it will continue to happen. We are human and part of being human is that you’ll catch a cold every now and then. Did you want her welded inside her house??

Let me guess. You're religious.

I agree with pp but what does religion have to do with this? I’m not religious. People get sick. Or does that not follow the science ? lol

As far as sicknesses, mental illness is a type of sickness which appears largely responsible for people still masking in 2024.

You are the only one obsessed

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Anonymous wrote:They're either physically or mentally ill. Generally the later.

And I say this as a primary care physician who has a panel of 2000 patients that I know very well.

Yes, you know all 2000 of them intimately, I’m sure—as well as who they have at home and who they see regularly and the whole bit. You’re a fund of knowledge.

If a primary care is not masking at work, I’d question their judgement.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the cashiers at Trader Joe’s who wear masks but not covering their nose are weird. And at other businesses too but Trader Joe’s seems to have a lot of mask wearing employees. And then what’s interesting is the medical building where I work with 16 floors of doctors offices has very few mask wearing doctors or employees walking around. Not sure if they know less than the Trader Joe’s people? I wonder what the rate of illness is between the two groups. I work in a surgery center and they definitely wear the masks in surgery. But they did that even before Covid.

It's clear there's a typology that is attracted to wearing masks a byproduct of their progressive neurosis. Look carefully at the type of people working at Trader Joe's. Or MOMs (a small organic supermarket chain in the mid Atlantic for those who don't know). Then look at the protests of college age progressive kids, like the various sit-ins by pro Gaza or social justice people, who are *always* wearing masks even though they are the demographic least affected by COVID, and you see pictures/videos of them being arrested by unmasked campus security or unmasked deans and admins trying to talk to them.

An element of the progressive left has taken to wearing masks as a byproduct of their identity for various reasons, which is why the more left wing/progressive an area or business or environment is, the more masking you will see.

You really can't think of any other reason protesters would cover their faces?

The obsession with other people "virtue signaling" is what identifies you as delusional. There are 20-odd pages here of practical reasons people mask, from illness and pollen to smoke and anonymity. But because you are hung up on the idea someone might be judging you, that's what you think masks are about.

I promise you, they are not thinking about you at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

This is bizarre. The lower paid workers typically wear a mask because they can't afford to be off work while they are sick. So they are either trying to protect themselves or they are already sick and at work.

When a friend got covid, she was going to the supermarket because she likes to choose her own tomatoes. No wonder the workers wear masks.

And? People have been going to stores with the sniffles for decades and it will continue to happen. We are human and part of being human is that you’ll catch a cold every now and then. Did you want her welded inside her house??

Let me guess. You're religious.

I agree with pp but what does religion have to do with this? I’m not religious. People get sick. Or does that not follow the science ? lol

As far as sicknesses, mental illness is a type of sickness which appears largely responsible for people still masking in 2024.

People have listed dozens of physical illnesses and explanations. Your insistence that it’s all mental illness tells me you’re a troll. If you’re that bored with life, get a second job. Or a third.