I’m honestly disheartened with many leftists that do not mask. I have had otherwise great people just completely fail the covid protection litmus test, and it’s harrowing. I’m tired of being socially ostracized for masking and treated like I have the plague by the greater capitalist hellscape, to see other comrades not even take into account masking is truly ugh.
I get it that’s hard to accept, idk, giving up your (unprotected, so most) of your social life because you wear a respirator and that you will have to do it forever, but for me it ties in with the otherwise completely scientific ML analysis I have of the world.
I just wish it didn’t feel that isolating, even among communists, regarding such a basic fact about bodily consent and empathy and overall survival in capitalism. As proletarians, we don’t have expensive private healthcare, so it’s even more important to not get sick, yet I see people promoting the vax-and-forget rhetoric…
It’s so dissapointing, how am I supposed to organize with people, when everyone else treats you like the plague for engaging in prevention mechanisms with Covid? I go outside and if not harassed I get treated like a weird outcast, which I am used to because of my politics, but I really do not see how to enagage with such people.
I’m sorry but this makes no sense. Why only take half measures when masking? What’s the fundamental difference between making in the supermarket and on the train? You’re just setting yourself up for failure here.
cause i shop at low-traffic times, there are like 2-3 people around, and i can just control my breath for 10s while passing by.
It is worth taking into account that covid can persist in the air for hours. It is airborne after all, and early claims to the contrary were not based in reality.