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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I put my mask on if I am on my way somewhere where I will need to wear it. Complaining that I am “virtue signaling” or ignorant seems like the pot calling the kettle black[/quote]

I tend to forget I have it on. I am sure people see me outdoors with it or whatever. Most of the time I have left a store and forgot I was wearing it. I eat indoors and go about my life, but I don't really notice my mask.

I do not understand people like OP who freak out and panic when they see someone outside with a mask on.[/quote]

This is how I see it too pp. Sometimes I forget to take the mask off, or have another stop to make. It's not a big deal.

Assume OP must have some untreated anxiety about seeing other people doing something they don't want to do, and feeling less than or lost. Otherwise, I really don't understand.

People can be outside without masks in MoCo, people can eat inside without masks in MoCo. Some people chose to wear masks outside, for reasons others don't know. It's perfectly ok OP. Chill.[/quote]

NP. Funny, I tend to assume that people wearing masks outdoors have untreated anxiety. People posting on DCUM just have too much time on their hands or a slow and boring day at work.[/quote]

I will never understand how your mind goes to untreated anxiety if you post on DCUM.  Thread after thread after thread people talk about how at this point they just forget their mask or whatever.  But you go right to anxiety.

what is up with you?[/quote]

What’s up with me? I don’t base my assumptions on what I read on DCUM. I actually know people in real life who I know have excessive Covid anxiety and therefore wear masks outdoors.[/quote]

Maybe they know you are behaving poorly, which puts them at risk, so common sense is when they see you to wear them.  Why do you care if someone is being careful and wearing them outdoors.  You don't know if they have health issues or at high risk.[/quote]

No. I see them walking alone in the street wearing them, far away from me or anyone. I see posts on Facebook of them hiking out in the woods masked. Their doing this doesn’t affect me directly, but I do know that the behavior is driven by fear that has to be affecting their kids negatively, and I know that a lot of the policies that did and still do affect many of us negatively, such as school closures and excessive policies around school and kids’ activities, are driven by these types. I only brought this up because the PP demanded I take the word of random anonymous DCUM posters who profess that they only wear masks outdoors because they “forget about them”. No, there is actually evidence that such behavior is an indicator of anxiety in many cases.

Oh, and I am not “behaving poorly”. I don’t travel or dine indoors, I always wear a KN95 in indoor public places (because if I’m going to wear a mask it might as well be effective),I support indoor masking in schools for now, but I will not and have never masked outdoors.[/quote]

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