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The people harping endless about "anxiety" and how terrible it is to keep your kids safe (and the people they would come into contact safe) during a pandemic and spewing faux-concern about other peoples' kids (many of whom they've never met)'s "mental health" are just people making irresponsible choices and when they hear of others being responsible, they feel threatened and insecure and lash out.  [b]They're also the "I saw somebody sitting in the car next to me WEARING A MASK!  HURRR DURRR!"[/b]

People confident in their own choices and confident in themselves don't feel the need to judge the choices other people make during a pandemic.[/quote]

[b]I wear masks and follow social distancing recommendations.  But I don’t agree with wearing a mask in YOUR OWN CAR!  Masks are worn to protect other people.  Who are you protecting when your alone in your own car[/b]?[/quote]

DP, not the one to whom you're responding, poster in bold. I think you missed the point entirely. That PP is saying that people get huffy and angry at seeing another person masked inside a car. You say you "don't agree" with it yourself. No one asks anyone else to "agree" with whatever they're doing inside their own car. Why are you getting worked up about what someone else is choosing to wear or not wear inside their own car? They aren't asking you. That's the PP's point -- you're here, doing exactly what PP described: Judging strangers with whom you aren't interacting.

By the way, the "mask in cars" thing came up on DCUM a while back in its own thread. Posters said that sometimes people making a couple of different stops, where they will be getting in and out of the car and going into places, don't want to mess with putting the mask on, off, on, off, and it's easier to leave it on as they do their errands. Plus, we're told not to touch the masks with our potentially dirty hands, and a lot of on and off is...touching the masks frequently, after being around people. Does that make you feel less steamed up about it? The idea that maybe you don't know if that person has a reason just to keep the mask on for a while?

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