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semicolon_storm

>Immunocompromised people existed before covid yet they weren't walking around like Darth Vader.

It's almost like there's a serious and highly infectious virus still circulating. Perhaps one that has a reputation for seriously harming or killing immunocompromised people.

>When is it going to end?

Better question, why do _you_ care when _others_ decide to stop wearing a mask?

This is like a non-asthmatic person criticizing someone with asthma for living in fear by carrying their inhaler in their pocket. When is asthma going to end? Surely they can't just carry around an inhaler for the rest of their lives, right?

>They cannot continue to live the rest of their lives in fear, it's debilitating to their mental health. However social media has enabled this behaviour.

Yet you're here on social media stressing about other people choosing to wear masks. Honestly for many people it's second nature at this point. Other countries like Japan had people wearing masks in public long before 2020.

1. There was a serious and highly infectious virus circulating. However this is no longer true hence the rest of society having moved on.

2. The asthma analogy is irrelevant.

3. Societies in east Asia wear masks when they're sick; to prevent the spread of illness. Somewhere along the way this narrative has changed to it being a magic invincibility cloak and credited to Asian society, which it never was.

Many people, most of whom I assume have never been to Asia, made up this narrative that people in Japan, for example, routinely wore masks day-to-day pre-pandemic. That simply isn't true and I could show you any number of photographs. Yes, it wasn't unheard of when people were sick but the idea that the average Japanese commuter was wearing a mask in 2019 is simply untrue.

Complete strawman, I never claimed everybody in Japan wore masks daily and that's an argument I've never even seen made. I live in an area with a dominate Asian culture and have visited numerous eastern asian countries.

1. You believe Covid no longer exists?

2. It's not, you just don't want to accept it.

3. Would it surprise you to hear that people are still wearing face masks for that same reason? Your "magic invincibility cloak" is a strawman argument that nobody has ever made.

> Better question, why do _you_ care when _others_ decide to stop wearing a mask?

The issue isn't that others are still wearing masks themselves. It's that they're trying their hardest to force the rest of us to wear masks still too. E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35582836

There have been zero masks mandates in place for over a year and Covid policies are only getting more relaxed, so that "issue" doesn't really seem to have any teeth.

This is not true, e.g. California just lifted its mask mandate in "healthcare settings" less than two weeks ago [1]. Different institutions still maintain their own mask mandates to this day though and not just in California.

1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-california-mask-m...

The thread I linked is full of posts advocating bringing them back.

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