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originally posted by: Dalamax
And you would be correct. So what? It’s a reaction to some fhead trying to justify everyone wearing one, 24hrs a day 7 days a week for months on end.
Learn to be accomodating to other people’s concerns, they have them and should be allowed to voice them, even if you would like them to just not comply and shut up.
originally posted by: djz3ro
a reply to: Blue_Jay33
Personally I'm comfortable enough with myself that wearing a thin piece of material over my face won't cause me any psychological trauma. What kind of snowflake gets that worked up over a mask?
originally posted by: DougHole64
I am currently putting together a petition to have mask wearing remain mandatory after COVID for anyone from Derbyshire. I am sure that anyone who has ever visited understands why. The petition is quickly gathering speed on Twitter with some big names like Carole Malone and Lord Sugar having already signed it. Exciting times, I imagine they’ll want me on TV soon!
"Through it all, I view wearing that cumbersome mask indoors in a crowd as not only allowing the newfound luxury of being incognito, but trust it's better than doing nothing to slow the spread," Palin said in a statement to People magazine.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Dalamax
And you would be correct. So what? It’s a reaction to some fhead trying to justify everyone wearing one, 24hrs a day 7 days a week for months on end.
Who would that be?
Learn to be accomodating to other people’s concerns, they have them and should be allowed to voice them, even if you would like them to just not comply and shut up.
They are voicing them and I'm voicing mine.
originally posted by: Dalamax
That would be every talking head who sits in front of a camera extolling the extreme dangers of life to the mildly bored population who could be assed staring at a tv while chewing their cud.
For starters. Who do you think?
Yes your voicing yours. Yay.
Seemingly providing no medical protection, only the perception of one, the masks are only there to provide displays of submission to authority.
originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
The Marvel Movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Features Bucky Barnes as the brainwashed winter soldier as a classic villain.
Here is what is stated about why he wore mask, and why he doesn't anymore in the new series where he is now a good guy.
The Winter Soldier wore a mask not to conceal his identity but to dehumanize him. ... Instead of Captain America going all out against the HYDRA assassin, treating him as any other adversary, Steve would be more conflicted about taking on Bucky.
The masks are doing great phycological harm, we can't see anybody smile at us, it makes people look more ominous.
Facial gestures have been depended on for millennia for humans to read each other, this is now taken away from everybody.
I have come to the conclusion that at this point masks are doing more harm than good for people. Herd immunity and the vaccines and summer coming with flu season coming to an end, it's time the masks go. Let the scared ones continue to wear them but those that have no fear should be allowed to remove them anywhere they go.
originally posted by: Dalamax
My point is an onion and a turnip don’t make soup.
But a mask is dehumanising however you wear it.
That’s why bank tellers hit silent alarms, cause people who wear masks are dehumanised.
a reply to: daskakik
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: Blue_Jay33
Then own your mask.
Buy a Confederate flag mask, or a mask with an Ar15 on it, or a mask with your views on sex or gender on it.
Use it to make the statement that you want.
You could even wear a mask calling for an end to masks.
Just don't come within 10 feet of me without one, because I'm boycotting you if you try.
originally posted by: 20Eyes1974
a reply to: schuyler
"If you feel dehumanized I suggest it's all in your head"
That is why it is called psychological torture in order to dehumanize the unwilling participant.
originally posted by: mtnshredder
originally posted by: djz3ro
a reply to: Blue_Jay33
Personally I'm comfortable enough with myself that wearing a thin piece of material over my face won't cause me any psychological trauma. What kind of snowflake gets that worked up over a mask?
Maybe someone like me that has only 3 working valves in my heart and heart is at 18%. They can shove their mask up.......