I masked for years when I was working around toxic dust, when none of my coworkers did and many of them teased me about it. Some of them now have weird miner lung diseases. This is not from West Virginia in the 30's, this is from a job at a hipster company featured in Martha Stewart's magazine. I started working there in 2008.
I am absolutely used to catching shit for being the only person in the room masked against the thing that is killing us.
@sidereal Toxic masculinity is so fucking bizarre. "Breathing hazmat makes me a real man!" Okay. Sure. How's that debilitating illness treating you?
Sigh. It'll be the downfall of America some day, and people like you will be the only ones left standing while people like your former coworkers drop like flies.
@fifilamoura I was an already lonely teenager who became quickly aware of how little my employer or my coworkers cared about my (or their own) lives and it made me profoundly lonelier in a way that’s hard to articulate even years later. It’s bad for one’s soul to live & work around such contempt for human life, so that rich & middle class people can have some baubles. It effects people in ways we don’t talk about.
@Air_Quotes_Comedian My joke response is just to say that I don't like smelling people's funky perfume/cologne 😅 (this is a definite fringe benefit of masking, NGL)
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