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I really really don't get the refusal to wear a mask. I totally get the economic imperative behind wanting to reopen ASAP, but what's it to you if yo

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) May 20 '20, 14:56

u wear a mask as the cost for that, for your and everyone's safety?

It seems like a stupid no-brainer like not wearing a seatbelt, or what am I missing?

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Totally agree. It's seems aimed at nothing more than proving you're an asshole. Unless this guy is a virus denier. In which case it proves he's a - pmb May 20, 15:05
Everyone who refuses to wear a mask should be challenged on why they're wearing pants. -- nm - Max May 20, 15:04
Because freedom for these folks is freedom to do what they want (full stop) - not freedom to do what they want within the confines of the - Will Hunting May 20, 15:02 7
- These people are stupider than I thought or realized -- nm - JackDawson May 20, 15:06 6
  - Yeah. How the right has drifted into a belief in essentially anarchy is really something. -- nm - pmb May 20, 15:08 5
    - I know it's not about logic but, again, do they wear seat belts? Sit on the plane during takeoff and taxi? - JackDawson May 20, 15:12 4
      - They are not serious people. -- nm - Reagen May 20, 15:32
      - Since things have started opening up, the % of people wearing masks is way down here, even though it's mandatory, only 20-30% are, except for places - jnine May 20, 15:24
      - No, those things protect *themselves*. -- nm - Spawn May 20, 15:17
      - you're 100% spot on. But they're idiots -- nm - Remlik May 20, 15:14
Exactly. I was just talking to my friend, who has to go into people's houses for his work, about this. His clients in South Orange County will not - jnine May 20, 15:02 3
- And if they wear a mask, they have to admit that this is actually a thing that is happening, and not a "liberal hoax". -- nm - Reagen May 20, 15:05 2
  - This is the store his mom shops in. She wouldn't fight it like this woman, but she doesn't like it either. -- (link) - jnine May 20, 15:27
  - His mother has the gardeners, lots or workmen and her hairdresser all over her house and yard with no masks and she won't wear one either. They're all - jnine May 20, 15:21
right? But to 'them' it's a form of Tyranny and trampling on the freedoms as Americans and that we're not sheep! -- (link) - Remlik May 20, 15:01
Wearing a mask is cowardly, submissive, unmanly, PC. Not wearing a mask triggers the libs. What's not to like? -- nm - mara May 20, 15:01
Cause they don't buy into your *system*, maaaaan -- nm - Reagen May 20, 14:59 1
- Yup. I ain't no sheep and you can't make me. We had to make helmets a law and those seem like a no brainer as well -- nm - JD May 20, 15:01

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