I wear an N95 daily and I get a lot of harassment. The lightest is random people on the street swearing at me, and the worst so far was a guy stalking me home to tell me my mask contained 49 heavy metals and cornering me. I am quite afraid for my physical safety at this point especially as also queer and self defense in this shithole is basically illegal. People constantly ask snarky side remarks about why I wear a mask, and it’s so tiring but at least I wish it was only that and I didn’t need to fear for my safety
Be nuttier than them, tell them they can recognize faces from satellites now, and you care about your privacy. Anti-masking person is more likely to believe this than germ theory
Tell them that there’s still residual vapours in the atmosphere from from obama-era chemtrails and you don’t want to turn gay.
My conspiracy is relatively harmless in that it points to plausible, if non-existent, issue (e.g. facial recognition in say cars or ring cameras). If you say those satellites are chinese, for example, you already helping porky.
Chemtrails is non-useful conspiracy, cause it points to nothing existing (aside from that time usa army sprayed cadmium around, but we don’t talk about that). and being gay is fine
so you gotta invent something plausible, left-compatible, parallel to reality and nuts.(if you say real stuff about ring cameras, they would think you are porch thief or whatever the fuck, cause they own that camera themselves)
Good idea I’ll try, thanks! I am more worried about the types that seem violent directly without any conversation. Seen more than one that just seem like they would assault me. Especially scary at night
try to strike libertarian “gobmint telling me what to do” vibe, not auntie fa hiding from fbi, you know. although i never met with immediately violent types, just weird anti vaxxers, with some libertrian or wild ideas.
I really like this one myself. And it’s honestly kinda valid on its own? Not so much satellites but facial recognition and the surveillance state in general. “There’s cameras everywhere, I don’t want Bill Gates tracking me. Did you know he’s buying up all the farmland?” Maybe ditch the last part if you don’t wanna invite a conversation.
Tell them you work in an infectious diseases lab and there might have been an outbreak, so you’re just being cautious.
Lmao gold thanks
“I have cancer.”
This probanly would work with these people, I once told a guy that would harass me that I’m immunocompromised and he answered with “I dont know whats that anyways [mask bad]” lmao so yikes
More than half of these freaks would look you in the eye and say you were lying.
Idk I been masking in the hopes of making it seem normal where I am. I wish I had some good advice no one messes with me because of how scary I look.
I’m decently tall and muscular and people look like they want to.punch me lol people just are very aggressive in this new place I moved to. Very fash
My other secret is when people try talking to me my voice is really high and I sound like I’m about to cry most of the time because of anxiety 😭
I’m lucky enough to live in a community where like 10% of people still mask, so I don’t get much shit for it.
I think masking became a symbol of some people feeling repressed or victimized by the lockdowns and probably whatever health problems they experienced during that time. I don’t know what to do about it. It fucking sucks how they were politicized.
When people have asked I just say “I can’t afford to be sick”.
Yeah people have told me the fact I’m masking “reminds them of the pandemic [and lockdowns]” and that’s why it’s bad
“reminds them of the pandemic [and lockdowns]” and that’s why it’s bad
So many people are just selfish, self-victimizing assholes who believe everything they read on their phone. I hope you can stay safe, comrade.
dress like a punk if you can pull that off. buddy system when available.
if you see someone starting to approach pantomime coughing so they think you’re sick or pull out your phone and take a fake call bunch of “hey mom, yeah uh huh yeah no right” kinda shit,
if you’re comfortable after they come up to you take the mask off and cough on them
The guy that harassed me and followed me home just ranted about the dangers of masks and that he really cares about my health etc, I called my partner at one point and he didnt care at all just kept blocking me and harassing me so yea
I’m not sure if this would work with masks but whenever someone has tried to debate lord me over not eating animals I start viscerally describing the most horrible aspects of the meat industry I can think of and they generally back off immediately. Maybe get a little manic and start talking about how Covid will fuse your brain cells together and that you don’t want brain damage, if you can hold your eyes open extra wide while you begin ranting, almost like they’re not there they’ll probably leave you alone.
People have a tendency to become automatically confrontational when they perceive that you’re doing something they probably instinctively know is bad but aren’t willing to inconvenience themselves over.
Aggressively baa. 🐏
Ooh, or say it’s a fetish thing. I’ve contemplated telling people I have the nunya virus but most folks don’t confront me. More passive aggressive shit like dirty looks and things.
Edit: I’ve also seen a couple masking performers wearing a gater over their n95s. That seems to be more socially acceptable. Of course now that ICE does it idk.
Yes-anding this, you could also make up a virus entirely and, when pressed, freestyle some fucked up symptoms.
Yeah it’s definitely 90% passive aggressive things which I just shrug off all the time. I can look into a gater ty!
Yeah I suppose I could also invent something. With the stalker guy I just felt cornered and tried to seem bored but listened to him because I was afraid he would get violent if I didn’t
Sorry you gotta deal with that shit, but thank you for looking out for yourself and others.
Maybe a gater that says ‘Fuck ICE’?
I’ve got a husky figure and RBF, so most of the time the only people brave enough to say shit are in their cars speeding past me, so it’s like
theairisdeadlyouknowMy partner: What did they say?
Me: I dunno, something about sucking ass
First off, I’m really sorry you’re being harassed simply for protecting yourself and your community. I’ve heard some people say that decorating their masks makes people less likely to challenge them, since it becomes more of a fashion accessory than this stark medical device. I think the most common decorations for disposable N95s are mask chains, thin cloth covers, and rub-on transfers. You can also get masks that have different colors or even printed designs (e.g. these Wellbefore masks which are KN95s but have a headstrap option).
People have become way more aggressive as of late, it’s ugh. I will look into decorations, thank you! Didn’t know they were still made or anything i use the draeger 1920 xplore headstrap n95
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Doesn’t work around here as “covid is just the flu it’s inoffensive anyways”
Tell em it’s where you conceal carry.
I just politely say I’m more comfortable wearing it.
wish i had advice but grateful for post. im here to read because i am forced to mask even in shared housing & could use the tips/giggles. im so sorry about the stalking :/
Ugh that must be rough, how are you holding on? It sucks when others disregard everything. Must be shit with preparing food
ough yes, im in the caribbean & have to cook food often bcs no one here makes decent food. lmao but i persevere w/ reason. a little sweat is nothing in exchange for no cardiovascular disease in my brain
if you fart enough other people might mask?
maybe if my farts were dyed, maybe,
Some sort of cover for the mask perhaps? Gaiters seem popular among chuds on their own without masks (for that operator look) so you might slip right under their radar by wearing one over it. Otherwise I think you can act crazed or like others said invent some conspiracy theory about how it protects you from something in the air like government experimental micro-metal particles that the military is pumping in to poison the brains of the population. See they argue because they think they can intimidate you or think you’re delusional and operating off bad info, so if you lean into that only in a direction they have no talking points to deal with they’ll short circuit.
Ooh that’s smart thank you! I alwaya tried to shrug them off “yea yea” hoping they would leave me alone but guess not. Tysm!
Tell them you have halitosis.
