What is your reasoning for going maskless?
Mine is that a person I live with a lot has been going maskless. When I go out with them, I feel there’s no point in wearing a mask if they’re not going to. If they catch an illness we’re both going to regardless. I’ve been criticizing people in my head about no one wearing a mask, but I have to admit, now that I’ve been out without a mask I can see the temptation of things “feeling normal.”
I’ve been applying to tipped service jobs where a mask might be detrimental to my income.
I’m a freak shit who lives in the middle of nowhere currently and I’ve never stopped masking up, and I’d go months without seeing another person wearing one. I will continue to do so until covid is finally taken care of. The social price to pay will never outweigh my fear of long covid.
That being said, I don’t have the emotional energy to judge people for not masking at this point. This was a large scale social problem that was unfairly turned into a personal consumer choice to mask or not, and it’s not like shits gonna get better anytime soon. I just can’t pretend like we live in a state of normal.