Nooo lmfao

UM THIS POST IS BLOWING UP??
(because it's a bomb... haha... get it...??)

I nearly had a heart attack

I'm gonna wear a mask. I am so tired of fitting in like that. I've had enough of this shit.

I'm deeply sorry to have disturbed you or anyone else that read this rant. I just... wanted to get this off my chest.

So yeah, Marieke. You're so goddamn right for speaking out. For real. I wish more people were like you, so that our society could get less sick and feel less paranoid for choosing to do a simple and harmless act of precaution. But I'm not so confident it will happen...

I can't just go somewhere with my parents (who are also sick) and watch them purposefully not putting a mask while sneezing and coughing the shit out of their cold and failing to convince themselves to wear a mask because they also think it's paranoid. The thought doesn't even cross their minds.

But apparently your ego is too big and your mind too small to even try and comprehend basic logic, addressing it as woke and paranoid. Because you are. Fucking. Stupid. And I need to fit in to all this shit so as not to disturb you.

"Ah, so you think I'm dangerous? I feel insulted!" NO MF YOUR BODY ODOR STINKS, YOUR BREATH STINKS, WE'RE FORCED TO BE 0.1 INCHES APART AND FUCKING HELL WEARING A MASK COULD RAISE SOME CHANCES IN PROTECTING ME AND MY FAMILY AND NOT LEAD ME TO AN OVERSTIMULATED BREAKDOWN

God how I'd also love to wear a mask in cramped public transportation without feeling the judgment of other people. "Eh, ignore it" you'd say. HOW? HOW?!? How would I ignore someone addressing me as "woke" and "paranoid" every time I tried to do that?

I recently had a cold and am still recovering from it. Probs got it from public transportation. I wanted to wear a mask to go to a doctor's appointment while I was sick. Gosh darn it did I feel shameful of it because of the implied judgment from other people around me.

Japanese people could do that and are still excused because "ah, they are so sophisticated by nature" BUT WE GOT EXPOSED TO THE PRACTICE!!! IN 2020!!! WE GOT EXPOSED TO THE LOGIC!!! AND IT MAKES SENSE!!!

SO WHY! ARE! WE! DENYING IT!!!!!!!!

Labelling BASIC LOGIC as "woke" from people who just prefer to return to their old beliefs is just BATSHIT DUMB AND CRAZY. Wearing a mask when it's needed LOGICALLY MAKES SENSE, regardless of what we were used to do before as westners.

So do the classrooms. And yet, NOBODY masks. Even if they are sick and cough like crazy. Why? Because apparently, self-protection is "woke", "paranoid" and "weird"

...IS IT WEIRD TO FUCKING PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS???????!!!!!!! THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do. What, just because we didn't do it before, we are allowed not to learn anything from what we lived? That is just utter nonsense!!! I couldn't agree more with you, Marieke.
I take public transport a LOT to go to my uni. The smell of people bothers me a lot. The vehicles get CRAZY cramped.

"we're not in that era anymore" "we can go back to normal" "don't act paranoid, a cold doesn't hurt anyone and it boosts your immune system", well, fuck, if there's anything the covid era has taught us is to learn how to protect ourselves from microbes like some other societies (i.e. Japan) already

fih