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I'm honestly disheartened with many leftists that do not mask. I have had otherwise great people just completely fail the covid protection litmus test, and it's harrowing. I'm tired of being socially ostracized for masking and treated like I have the plague by the greater capitalist hellscape, to see other comrades not even take into account masking is truly ugh.

I get it that's hard to accept, idk, giving up your (unprotected, so most) of your social life because you wear a respirator and that you will have to do it forever, but for me it ties in with the otherwise completely scientific ML analysis I have of the world.

I just wish it didn't feel that isolating, even among communists, regarding such a basic fact about bodily consent and empathy and overall survival in capitalism. As proletarians, we don't have expensive private healthcare, so it's even more important to not get sick, yet I see people promoting the vax-and-forget rhetoric..

It's so dissapointing, how am I supposed to organize with people, when everyone else treats you like the plague for engaging in prevention mechanisms with Covid? I go outside and if not harassed I get treated like a weird outcast, which I am used to because of my politics, but I really do not see how to enagage with such people.

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Not the point of your post but wanted to offer some hope for other maskers who fear it interfering with their social life.

I mask 99% of when im outside my house/car (sometimes I take it off on my way to my car or to drink something if its hot but i move away from other people if i do that or ill eat or drink something in an empy room before other people show up to work but those are pretty rare) and my social life is at the point where im doing something almost every weekend.

I might be taking less precautions than other people here (im okay with going on crowed public transportation while masked and other somewhat crowded spaces but do have an arbitrary limit of what I feel comfortable with) but I do think its possible to mask full time (or close to full time with my few exceptions mentioned above) and still have a fulfilling social life.