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by jmopp 997 days ago
This. Masks are a lot more acceptable in public than they were 5 years ago. Given the mass surveillance going around, I'm surprised more people aren't in favour of regular mask wearing in public.
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I think there’s too much overlap here between the people concerned about surveillance enough to wear a mask, and the people who don’t want to wear masks because it was the government who told them to do so in the first place.

At least in the US.

As a data point, I hate wearing masks because, and maybe its just me, it's much harder for me to breathe wit a mask on. Makes me really, really out of breath.

Also, if this counts as social media, this is the only one I use, because I don't want to give any information away about myself within my control. So given the option of mask/fedora/sunglasses or nothing, I'd take the former.

If you see someone passed out in a fedora/sunglasses/mask outside, it may be me or someone like me who just got really dizzy because of a lack of oxygen.

On the breathing thing, I am quite tall and have a large lung capacity, I've always wondered if that had anything to do with my mask struggles.

I guess my point is, masks aren't a political thing for everyone, just the loud ones.