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[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I still wear a mask when going out to stores because I'm immunocompromised due to a kidney transplant. It's ultimately up to me to protect myself from others but what bothers me most lately are people who either laugh or think I'm stupid for still wearing a mask. Some even go as far as to call me out and shame me for it. Can people just mind their own business? I'm not trying to get them to wear a mask so why are they so fixated on me taking mine off?

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still wear a mask because I stand in soldiartiy with folks like you.

Not only do I want to prevent the spread of the disease that could kill immune compromised folks like yourself, but it also helps normalize mask wearing.

[–] macabrett@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh spoilering emotes until that bug gets fixed is a good idea.

[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sincerely and from the bottom of my immunosuppressed heart: thank you.

Seriously thank you, thank you, thank you.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Finally a fucking cool person picard-pointing

[–] Birdie@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago

Someone called me a libtard under his breath, but loudly enough to make sure I heard...in a CANCER center, where many of us were having our immune systems weakened by chemo.

You can't fix stupid so I don't even try. I've been in remission for almost two years, I'm healthy and he's out there sucking in viruses. We both have ticking clocks, but mine is ticking much more slowly than his is.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I never stopped wearing a mask because I'm immunocompromised from my lung transplant. People call me names all the time. Even here on Lemmy.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find this hard to believe. Especially considering that your post history shows you calling others names like 'simp'.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Wonder why these comments replying to me were removed..

[–] voight@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Get a ventilator. Make them afraid

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely, I think it's probably because they feel a little guilty when they see you wearing one, and that's uncomfortable for people, so they respond by taking it out on you.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A while lot of liberalism and liberal brainworms involves feeling uncomfortable about someone else caring too much in a way that isn't convenient for treat consumption.

[–] phej@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"feeling uncomfortable about someone else" that's what fascism is dear. Conservatives so are so uncomfortable about what people have in their pants and what they do with it that they want to ban people from talking about transgender and sexuality topics

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Maybe you’re new here, but fascism and liberalism are two sides of the capitalist coin. Liberals stopped masking almost the instant Biden set foot in the White House, despite the fact that 2/3 of covid deaths occurred while Biden was office (liberals will also excuse Biden’s “inaction” while claiming that Trump, who occupied the same office, was a tyrannical authoritarian totalitarian dictator who ran roughshod over the hallowed institutions of our precious democracy). Capitalism is a death cult, workers should run the world, not bourgeois scum and their running dogs.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re such a fucking idiot. 😂

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it must be embarrassing to be a child amongst adults

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It’s actually embarrassing seeing what garbage the human race has produced where we actively try to regress instead of progress… but yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night sweetheart. 😂

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It’s actually embarrassing seeing what garbage the human race has produced where we actively try to regress instead of progress… but yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night sweetheart. 😂

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

fascism and liberalism are two sides of the capitalist coin

Oh, look, a HexBear dipshit in the wild! I wonder how we can figure them out so easily!

This is "both sides are bad" bullshit, a destructive force from apathetic people. Don't listen to this shit. Vote every year, twice a year!

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people pointing out both sides have dogshit covid policy are not the ones not being apathetic. It's the liberals who all went back to brunch and demanded everything re-open.

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaslighting is telling people that Covid isn’t a threat even though you know it’s not and you deliberately cooked the books to sell that delusion. Gaslighting is telling people you’re supposed to be responsible for governing that a vaccine that was never shown to stop the spread of a disease does, in fact, do that. Gaslighting is telling people that you must personally assess your own risk to a collective, public health crisis with the paltry tools that have been provided, then strip away or sabotage every last one of those tools so they cannot provide even a sliver of usefulness to anyone but the most bad faith interpretations.

All of these things are things both Amerikkka’s fascist wing and liberal, fascist-enabling wing have done and are currently doing (if they’re not outright ignoring it). To anyone with a pulse, there is no meaningful difference, and indeed they are so often intertwined.

Also, Marx was based.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Biden's been in office 2.5x as long as US covid was a thing under Trump.

I agree Biden has decided to throw some lives in the chipper to keep REITs and employers happy, but the "twice as many deaths under Biden" stat is empty ragecalories.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I started exclusively wearing kn95s because it became clear after a time that people simply don't give a shit about anyone except themselves, they don't care if you or I get covid and die.

So I stopped pretending like I'm doing my part since we all know surgicals and cloth masks are only truly effective if everyone else is wearing them. They know too but choose to fuck us anyway. So fuck them too and protect yourself first. Wear your p100 respirator with the exhaust vents that filter nothing for extra vindictive points