People who are hostile and aggressive towards respirator-wearers are unlikely to be wearing respirators themselves...
Doesn't that make them perfect targets for pepper spray? 🤔😏
#MaskUp #IntrusiveThoughts #MaskBans
Inspired by
https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/114028511511388818
I started wearing an N95 #respirator partly because of Delhi's record levels of air pollution, and partly because of mass surveillance and FRT.
It's pretty uncomfortable, but it turned out to have even more benefits. People living with me contracted all kinds of coughs and colds and fevers. I was singularly unaffected.
And then I learned from the Fediverse that #CovidIsNotOver.
Not wearing a mask in public now feels like being naked, and not in a good way.
#MaskBans? WTAF?
@contrapunctus in winter, if you wear a scarf and an hat, the face is covered a lot: many more than a medical mask. This is obviously accepted, because it is a protection from cold and illness. I don't see the difference in wearing a protective mask in crowded places. Is there an alternative way for protecting me and/or others from flu? Why a law should limit my access to simple and effective methods which preserves my health?
They call them "mask", but protective masks are not "carnival masks" or burqa. You still see many parts of the face. If there is a riot or a crime, you still have some hints for identifying someone.
I accept men with massive beards, and women with heavy makeup, so I can accept someone with a medical/protective mask, if I can see some part of the faces.
