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
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
So many people are just selfish, self-victimizing assholes who believe everything they read on their phone. I hope you can stay safe, comrade.