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.