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You feel you simply can't live your life if you wear the mask ... are we talking more than even an hour on an average day? (I don't know if you have to wear one all day at the office. That's obviously a different thing)

(The relative "freedom" of the country in this context is a slightly different topic, but I won't delve into it right now)

That's not what any of us are getting at. I can live my life just fine wearing the mask.

The question is whether I should have the choice to do so, or whether the government should tell me I must do so.

Both 94 and I said that a mask mandate is justifiable pre-vaccine. But now that the vaccine is widely available and everyone who wants one has gotten it, the mandate is no longer justifiable.

It's not that we can't wear a mask. It's that the situation has changed now that we have the vaccine, so now it should be a personal decision (or a requirement voluntarily set by a business if they so choose).

Everything bwar said.

And the fact that you can type "relative freedom" as if there is any such thing, is a huge part of the problem right now.

Yeah, I do get that.

I don't really get that.  I don't see anyone on THIS site being dramatic about it.  Many of us have said we'd rather not wear it because it's uncomfortable.  Or in badgerfan's case, it actively made him feel unwell.  And we've also said that in a post-vaccine world, the government should not be granted the privilege to abridge these particular rights.

But we're all still wearing it into private businesses that post signs saying they require it, and we're all still wearing it into government buildings in locations where it's mandated, and we're not pitching anti-mask protests and barreling over Home Depot employees that are trying to ask us to wear a mask.  We have mask mandates in my school district and my kids are wearing them for 8+ hours every single day, and I'm not down at the school board meetings raising hell and demanding change.

If you're seeing people elsewhere make a big deal out of it and protesting and whatnot, that's fine, but it's not representative of what's happening here.

If we're bringing in what's happening elsewhere, I'm seeing the majority of the drama coming from the people that just can't stand the thought of anyone NOT wearing a mask, NOT blindly following non-science-based government edicts to wear masks despite being vaccinated, and literally calling out people that don't want to wear a mask, as old-people-killers.  That's the main group where I'm seeing any drama.

But again, that's not really here on this site.

Mostly.

I love when my life is affected by other people's sliding scales of stupidity and selfishness.

IF you don't want to be affected by other people's stupidity and selfishness with respect to COVID, you should make sure you have the vaccine.  And that all of your loved ones do as well.

IF you don't want to be affected by other people's stupidity and selfishness with respect to COVID, you should make sure you have the vaccine.  And that all of your loved ones do as well.

I did.

And I get to teach in a mask all day.  It's great.  I love it.  It's a blast. 
All because the very best and brightest among us won't get a gubmit-issued Illuminati shot. 
FFS

I did.

And I get to teach in a mask all day.  It's great.  I love it.  It's a blast. 
All because the very best and brightest among us won't get a gubmit-issued Illuminati shot. 
FFS

If the government is requiring vaccinated people to wear masks and you don't like that, take it up with the government, rather than your fellow man.  They had their chance.  Eff 'em*.


*I am of course excepting that tiny percentage of people that have a legitimate medical reason not to get the vaccine.