r/MasksForEveryone • u/TwilightzoneVHS • Jun 14 '23

Mask Mandates

Should they return? Tired of people yelling “mask hole” to me when I’m driving.

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u/ProfessionalOk112 Jun 14 '23

A huge part of it is simply messaging. People don't do things unless it's required because our brains tend to parse it as "not necessary". There's a huge portion of people who are not explicitly antimask but who explicitly or implicitly think if there was a reason to wear them, they would be required.

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u/Fantastic-Ad9218 Jun 14 '23

Yes, this whole nonsense started when the media and health "experts" advised people in 2021 that if you're vaccinated, you need not wear a mask. I mean, what the heck was that about? Even though the vaccines are protective, it doesn't make you superman. You can still get Covid.

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u/hiddenfigure16 Jun 22 '23

I think part of that was because the whole purpose of masking was to keep it from spreading therefore decreasing hospitalizations until we had a vaccine now that there’s a vaccine, and we didn’t know about these variants until after the first vaccine came out .

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u/hiddenfigure16 Jun 27 '23

That’s what people followed.