When I was walking back from the auto parts store with four brake pads in one hand and my N95 dangling from the other, my next door neighbor said "still masking? How long are you going to keep that up anyway?"
What I said: until people stop dying of covid.
What I thought: dude you were in the hospital on a respirator for a month in 2020 and in the last year have had two heart attacks and a stroke.
@smellsofbikes I get the impression that some people find wearing a mask intensely annoying and project their annoyance on others; they have some sort of limitation in theory of mind such that they can't imagine it feeling benign or even comfortable to someone else.
I grew up in Minnesota and Wisconsin and winter could be brutally cold, at least back then. I got used to wearing a mask, because taking the mask off could be physically painful within seconds.
I can have enough empathy to recognize that masks feel irrationally stifling to some people, while being grateful that my childhood prepared me to find this precaution essentially comfortable.
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