(04-23-2021, 03:10 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Mask usage will surely drop once the regulations no longer require them, but I think people wearing them will no longer be viewed as weirdos.
I hope so. I wouldn't mind wearing them when sick and I wouldn't mind others wearing them. Before we even had a mask mandate in the region, I was one of the few that would go do my grocery shopping with a mask on and I definitely felt and looked like a weirdo...I'd have people staring at me the entire time I ran into Zehrs or something. Having lived in Tokyo for about a year, it definitely didn't seem weird to me. It just seems like common human courtesy to wear one even if you just had a runny nose. Yet many in our culture - in the middle of the deadliest pandemic in our generation - think they're a sign of submission to tyrants. Wild. But to me, it felt like a moral obligation and like it was helping to normalize them, so I did it. A couple weeks later suddenly everyone had them and now it's second nature to us, where having your mask is as normal as having your keys or phone on you.
Masks would also do a lot in terms of the necessity for paid sick days too. Less people transmitting their colds and flus, the better it is for other workers and businesses, the better it is for the capitalist machine. Would conservatives ever think that way, though? Unlikely, as they seem to be the first ones to call people bitches for having them on. You don't need a mask and if you can't work despite your 38 degree fever, you're probably a soyboy commie.