Opinion Are face masks going to make a comeback in 2025?

[RoastBeast]

It's a different culture. They don't have the same freedoms we have here but also not the "muh freedom" egos that will get them jousting windmills.

The use of "muh freedom" is such a terrible look. Making fun of people for wanting to be free is a slap in the face to the people who have given their lives so you yourself can be free.

 

[Ruke Doufus]

That’s just not true. There’s an incubation period in which one could spread COVID but not be symptomatic. Some people that tested positive for COVID and were able to spread it were asymptomatic themselves. Wearing a mask, hand washing, social distancing, etc can help mitigate spread for those situations.

If you don't consistently wear one out of chronic concern that you're potentially incubating covid you don't really believe it's necessary or helpful.

 

[PBAC]

Yes its sensible if you want to lower risk of getting sick or spreading

 

[BFoe]

If you don't consistently wear one out of chronic concern that you're potentially incubating covid you don't really believe it's necessary or helpful.

That’s not true at all either. All sorts of other factors matter: what variant is most prevalent, how widespread it is in the area, what it’s effects are and how much we know about the illness in question, is there a vaccine and are you vaccinated, how are local healthcare facilities dealing with it… all kinds of stuff.

Masks were one part of a series of actions that made sense to take from the time COVID began to spread up until we had a reasonable vaccination rate, notwithstanding the other factors I mentioned.

 

[Lycandroid]

The use of "muh freedom" is such a terrible look. Making fun of people for wanting to be free is a slap in the face to the people who have given their lives so you yourself can be free.

its a really bad look when you are closer in ideology to the guys they died fighting against than the guys who actually fought for you.

 

[italiamusica]

The problem is people who are sick not staying the fuck home. Young people go out when they’re sick and that probably won’t ever stop. But employers harassing their workers for doctor notes is a fucking joke. They’re doing you a favor staying home. Don’t employers give out sick days anymore? Wtf

Yeah that's exactly what it is. Employers not giving sick time, or worse, making it mandatory that if you call out sick that you have to use your PTO to make up for it. And then there are the people who still act like it's manly, or a badge of pride, to never call out no matter how sick you are. Just stupid selfish shit.

 

[Bobby00]

Yeah that's exactly what it is. Employers not giving sick time, or worse, making it mandatory that if you call out sick that you have to use your PTO to make up for it. And then there are the people who still act like it's manly, or a badge of pride, to never call out no matter how sick you are. Just stupid selfish shit.

I once worked with a female coworker who had the same mentality. She didnt have a cold either she was fully sick and wanted to prove how much of a team player she is. Lady was around 50 she shit herself running to the bathroom i kid you not while passing me shit stank and some people thought she was so tough and i just thought what a retarded human.

 

[Blunderbuss]

Was it 2008 that there was a really bad norovirus outbreak? It pretty much shut down my university for a couple weeks. I didn't get it but a ton of people in my dorm did. Yeah, I'll go out of my way not to get that shit (pun intended)

 

[squeezewax]

God, there are so many sheep living in our society. Baa-a-a!

 

[fingercuffs]

Some people are pushing face masks again over some new fears. Do you think they will make a comeback? Will people fall for it again?

We only essentially need to leave the house for groceries but would still not rather.

It would be funny as fuck seeing a bunch of double hard grown men lose their shit over a tiny piece of flimsy material again though.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

We only essentially need to leave the house for groceries but would still not rather.

It would be funny as fuck seeing a bunch of double hard grown men lose their shit over a tiny piece of flimsy material again though.

No one is stopping you from hiding in your basement all day. Have your groceries delivered to your front porch. Keep two or three face masks on for safety. You will br saving Grandma.

People that don't live in fear over catching the flu or a cold can go out and live like normal people.

You don't need to control other people.

 

[fingercuffs]

No one is stopping you from hiding in your basement all day. Have your groceries delivered to your front porch. Keep two or three face masks on for safety. You will br saving Grandma.

People that don't live in fear over catching the flu or a cold can go out and live like normal people.

You don't need to control other people.

I didn't, haven't, nor would I lol. We just rarely go out other than doing grocery shopping.
Quite why you're getting your knickers in a twist over something that happened years ago I don't know.

 

[fingercuffs]

Yeah that's exactly what it is. Employers not giving sick time, or worse, making it mandatory that if you call out sick that you have to use your PTO to make up for it. And then there are the people who still act like it's manly, or a badge of pride, to never call out no matter how sick you are. Just stupid selfish shit.

Even going to work with a common cold is still miserable if you pass it on to the whole office. Just stay at home for a couple of days till it isn't contagious and everyone else doesn't get it. But yeah when I was going in every day there was a stigma even though I could do exactly what I was doing from home for 2 days.

 

[BFoe]

The use of "muh freedom" is such a terrible look. Making fun of people for wanting to be free is a slap in the face to the people who have given their lives so you yourself can be free.

Are you kidding me?
I think comparing the unwillingness of people to participate in common-sense actions like keeping one’s distance and wearing a mask in shared public spaces during a global pandemic, to soldiers that lost their lives fighting in the Revolution or WW2 is the terrible look.

Those people were willing to sacrifice their individual lives so that everyone could be free; the “Muh Freedom” crowd was willing put other people’s health and lives at risk because they couldn’t bear a mild individual inconvenience.

Hardly the same thing.

 

[Scerpi]

Well, such people should have the decency to remove themselves from the community. If they refuse to do that, then measures have to be taken to safeguard the community from them. Then comes the practical question. Burning would probably work, but maybe using incinerators for their obvious benefits. And public executions by fire on the town square have always had both drawbacks and benefits.

Mask-refusers need to be dealt with decisively, though, obviously. Remember when some people didn't take the Covid vaccines and then ended up causing a giant catastrophe? They weren't dealt with quickly enough. That's why basically most of the world's population perished as a result and we are now living in post-apocalyptic times. Chomsky had it right:



I wonder why we are still so ineffective at policing people's thoughts, though. There lies the real problem. Maybe in the future, we can install a mechanism in babies' brains that guarantees that they only think thoughts that have been pre-approved by the Party. That's actually one way we can really solve a lot of these problems. We could dramatically reduce the number of executions needed as well. I mean, sure, places like Chong Ek in Cambodia etc have been incredibly useful in dealing with dissidents, but if we can better control people's thoughts from the beginning, those mass graves will take much longer before they're filled up.

Omg… Are you serious?

Where the fuck do you live?

 

[Scerpi]

If you were, you'd have better healthcare and no mass shootings

lol… no thanks

I’d still rather live here and some authoritarian nanny state

 

[Fox by the Sea]

I don't think mask mandates are coming back anytime soon. i wore them for two years and i'd need very solid convincing to do it again, and i'm one that usually says fine ok i'll fucking do it even if i don't necessarily want to. so if you'd have trouble to push it with a guy like me, it would be very very hard to push it on others.

 

[RemyR]

Tbh I have no problem with people wearing masks. I got a major problem with forced compliance though, either through the government or lefty peer pressure.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Well, such people should have the decency to remove themselves from the community. If they refuse to do that, then measures have to be taken to safeguard the community from them. Then comes the practical question. Burning would probably work, but maybe using incinerators for their obvious benefits. And public executions by fire on the town square have always had both drawbacks and benefits.

Mask-refusers need to be dealt with decisively, though, obviously. Remember when some people didn't take the Covid vaccines and then ended up causing a giant catastrophe? They weren't dealt with quickly enough. That's why basically most of the world's population perished as a result and we are now living in post-apocalyptic times. Chomsky had it right:



I wonder why we are still so ineffective at policing people's thoughts, though. There lies the real problem. Maybe in the future, we can install a mechanism in babies' brains that guarantees that they only think thoughts that have been pre-approved by the Party. That's actually one way we can really solve a lot of these problems. We could dramatically reduce the number of executions needed as well. I mean, sure, places like Chong Ek in Cambodia etc have been incredibly useful in dealing with dissidents, but if we can better control people's thoughts from the beginning, those mass graves will take much longer before they're filled up.

Well done.

 

[SKYNET]

You don't need to control other people.

It's not that they want to control other people, (it actually is, but instead of admitting that, they hide and supress their intentions and work tirelessly towards manipulating everyone into being educated on how to be obedient and compliant, a super convenient way to exude max virtue while cloaking their acceptance of a riddled brand of flaccid tyranny)

They are conditioned to think they know more than everyone else and they worship the rules that have been set by those who they think know more than they do, and their virtue is best expressed by maintaining this hierarchy and upholding the prescribed norms while in the presence of those who are being disobedient and choose non-compliance.

If you are wearing a mask, it's acceptable, virtuous, even mandatory to judge others. It's their civic duty to cast their judgment upon everyone else around them, in which they are safe to assume that the others are just simply not smart enough and stand in direct conflict with those who they think know more than they do.