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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There actually are "cloth" masks with multiple layers that are comfortable and at least as protective as KN 95s.  All of these posters scoffing about cloth masks have no way of knowing just how protective these masks are just by glancing at them in a supermarket, unless they know the brands.   It's funny how many people think that this is about peer pressure or being "performative".  [b]Until reading this thread I hadn't realized how many presumably educated adults rely on projection -- when healthy curiosity might be a preferable strategy. [/b] [/quote]

What are you talking about? Of course mask wearing in general is about peer pressure for a lot of people. Probably the majority of people in this area are still wearing them only because they don't want to be judged as "anti-maskers". And of course there is peer pressure in schools to wear the "right" masks by kids indoctrinated by their parents. I get you don't want to be judged for wearing your $25 Happy Mask either by people thinking all cloth masks are created equal, so you want them to have "healthy curiosity" about it, but what we really need is to get to a point where nobody judges anybody for the mask they wear or don't wear.[/quote]

People in this area judge everyone on everything pp. Its what half of dcum is about.

I look at the science and do what I want to do, which right now is wear a very protective mask. If someone judges me, that's their problem.

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The politics of masking being what they are, that's easy to say for someone in a liberal who wants to continue wearing a mask. You are following the norms of your tribe (which is mine as well), and of course you won't care what the few true "anti-maskers" will think. Even if you lived in a red area, it would be easy not to care, because you are following what your political tribe has taught you is the right thing to do. It is much harder for liberals to break away from the norms and ditch the mask around here, because they don't want to be suspected of being an "anti-masker" or Trumper, and they don't want to break the social norms of their group. It's sad that it has come to this with masks, but it is the reality.

By the time your sources (the fact that you call them "the science" is revealing because "the science" is anything but unified on this issue - but it's a popular slogan of your tribe) tell you that it's ok to go unmasked, it will be easy for you to do so, because the social norms will have changed.[/quote]

Well said. It's hubris at this point. "There's no way we could possibly be wrong! The CDC says so!" And we end up being one of the only places in the world still masking our kids in school.[/quote]

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