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A lot of leftists on social media are Big Mad that DSA required masks at their National Convention.
(hexbear.net)
Of all the things you could critique DSA on, this is the hill you're going to die on? 
DSA deciding to do a mask mandate at this event is unequivocally good and based. Shut the fuck up, you fucking dipshits.
Imagine being this much of a fucking goddamn crybaby about masking. Eat shit, you ableist fucks.
One of the biggest lessons this pandemic has taught me is the astounding number of people for whom leftism is really just performative, and that when push comes to shove, these people will make the biggest fucking stink about having to do something even mildly inconvenient for even a single fucking event or context and show themselves for who they really are.
I still can't fathom why people get so pissed off about wearing masks. I've heard tons of explanations but they just slip off my mind. Like just... don't catch a shitload of respiratory viruses and con crud! The horror!
For the same reason they threw a fit about seat belts and motorcycle helmets. Its a generic "You can't tell me what to do!" impulse that runs rampant among American libertarians.
It didn't stop with the libertarians.
My partner was fucking healthy before her first and only COVID infection. Also if one includes those "at risk" (old, chronically ill, cancer surviving, diabetic, too young to vaccinate, etc), it's like 50% of the human population.
I'm pretty sure "at risk" included pretty much all mental health disorders too. I remember reading articles listing those at risk around the time the vaccines came out (and thus around the time of "take your masks off its over" round 1).
Yeah depression and stress both impair your immune system, and given that everyone is depressed and stressed now... 🤮
Cortisol in the blood, among other things. Descartes was full of shit; the brain and body are connected in an interwoven way.
https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/effects-on-body
Stress factors affect pretty much everything negatively, from weight gain, to schizophrenia, to immune response. So on and so on.
I mean I don't want it to be the norm forever, at least not outside of big events where it makes sense, but with covid still going around in waves....
Plus, the way to not have to wear masks in the future is to actually wear them when there is a pandemic and actually tamp down on that shit
At this point I believe it's just cognitive dissonance, everyone said it was time to stop masking, and repeated a bunch of thought terminating simple explanations as to why, and the mandates all dropped, so it was normalized. Accepting that they should still mask at conventions now has implications for what they should do day to day, at the store, and what they should have done over the past year or two, so they reject the new thing instead of doing some self refelection