dialamah
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I have been wearing a mask in public (and limiting my trips) since March 2020 when this whole thing went down.
I’m not sure how being considerate to others for the common good is now being mocked by some who are calling it “living in fear” or that I am brainwashed, but it needs to stop....
When I wear a mask over my nose and mouth in public and in the stores/Supermarkets/Pharmacies/Offices - I want you to know the following:
* I'm educated enough to know that I could be asymptomatic and still give you the virus.
*No, I don't "live in fear" of the virus; I just want to be part of the solution, not the problem.
* I don't feel like the "government controls me". I feel like I'm an adult contributing to the security in our society and I want to teach others the same.
*I am not brainwashed, I am educated, reading the scientific information and listening to reliable scientists (not persons with no qualifications to make any scientific conclusions)
* If we could all live with the consideration of others in mind, the whole world would be a much better place.
* Wearing a mask doesn't make me weak, scared, stupid or even "controlled". It makes me caring and responsible.
*When you think about your appearance, discomfort, or other people's opinion of you, imagine a loved one - a child, father, mother, grandparent, aunt, uncle or even a stranger - placed on a ventilator, alone without you or any family member allowed at their bedside.....
Ask yourself if you could have helped them a little by wearing a mask.
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I think many right-wing people are pretty ok, they just don't happen to be on this forum, for the most part.
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Man falls out of a high window and lands with a splat on the pavement below....but not before bouncing off a pedestrian...killing both instantly. Autopsy revels that the man who fell tested positive for COVID-19.
Headline reads:
COVID-19 now airborne! Kills instantly!
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My problem isn't so much with rightwingers as people, it's the defensiveness they've built around their pet beliefs and refusal to examine the things they believe in and why they believe them.
For the record, I see the same thing in a lot of liberals, who according to the sociologist who wrote the big book on authoritarianism about 20 years ago- Robert Altemeyer, conservatism is supposed to become the favored ideology of closed-minded people who feel a need to protect their favorite beliefs. While liberals are supposed to be open-minded and more prone to examine and test their beliefs with real world evidence. And I sure as hell am not seeing much of that anymore! Hence the ideological shelling from one side on the other, looks like it's a permanent thing that will go on without end!