bramling
Veteran Member
Mod Note: Posts #1 - #15 originally in this thread.
The general fear and anger I see around face masks is something I just don’t understand. They’re as annoying to wear as anything on earth but I really don’t understand the “got to go” stuff. It’s hardly that much of an imposition But if they frighten someone that much then they now don’t have to wear them.
i’m not trying to be provocative, so I hope it’s not taken that way, I simply don’t comprehend the strength of the emotion around this. I find it slightly…bizarre I guess is a good word.
It’s more the way people have latched on to them than anything else.
An invasive measure brought in at the blink of an eye, with essentially no evidence to suggest they make any positive contribution at all. Meanwhile there’s a whole list of negatives attached to them, not least the way some people have become compulsive about them. I can still remember the sight back in 2020 of someone walking up and down a virtually empty class 700 checking for anyone not in a mask. Nothing to do with health concerns, everything to do with seizing an opportunity to boss others around.
Then from a practical point of view there’s some rank hypocrisy - hardly anyone uses masks correctly, it’s pretty universal to see people retrieving a used one out of their pocket, failing to clean their hands before putting a mask on, touching or adjusting their mask once on, plus of course the plentiful sight of masks discarded on the ground.
Then there’s “politicians” like Khan who have latched on to masks simply to stick two fingers up.
The more we acquiesce to stuff like this, the more we will have. Hence why many view them as the thin end of a wedge, and are not prepared to go along with them.