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It's exhausting. I've basically given up trying to convince anyone of anything, and it's permanently altered the way that I see the world and people that I trusted and looked up to. But they can pry my N95 from my cold, dead hands.

Thanks for fighting the good fight, comrade

Coming late to the party I have a few questions and requests ( if anyone got the time to help). I have been one of the plague rats out of sheer ignorance. I mean that not as an excuse but as a reason to enact change.

First, which masks should I get, like which actually help and aren't cosmetic (as a jobless person I would love cheap or reusable options if those exist)?

Second, does any of you have some links where I can educate my ass outside of reading your comments? Articles/Videos/books, all is welcome.

Third, I feel you comrade. As a vegan I can say not much seems to happen. There is just soo much wrong with our society. As products of said society we are bound to run around with more or less brainworms for a long time still. We can only try to do what we can and educate people. Sadly many people don't want to learn anything (I blame our education systems). Also people hate feeling ignorant, yet everyone is ignorant in many topics.

Saw this and fully expected a but good to see everyone was just clowning on some antimasker. Good posting.

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Forget general society. The majority of people here on Hexbear dot net are plague rats. You can especially tell when people here get hyped about watching Hollywood slop in the Covid death traps called movie theatres.

Whatever. Just mask up, take your shots, and set up CR boxes. The easiest CR box design is just a box fan with a 20x20x4 MERV 13 MPR 1900 filter like this

Depending on how much you are exposed to plague rats in your routine life, masking and vaccines may not be enough.

Read up about ventilation and air quality. You'll be shocked (or not since you refuse to become a plague rat) at how little plague rat society gives a fuck about air quality. Plague rats will cram themselves like plague-bearing sardines into a small room with no windows and wonder why it "feels stuffy." (That's their body's response to CO2 concentration rising above 1000 ppm, which is when cognitive impairment starts to happen.). Buy a cheap CO2 monitor and use it as a proxy for well or poorly ventilated your living and working spaces are.

Still masking 100% of the time. At this point, my social life has completely died and I've got zero friends left. No one wants to hang out with someone that has to wear a mask when no one else is wearing a mask. Sad but true. You can either own it or let it own you. Show up, mask, tell them this is the way its going to be, and then go from there.

Sadly, most people here do not mask. In fact, most of our leftist cohort do not mask at all.

I agree with masking although I don't really understand the antipathy toward people not masking at this stage when few do. At this point it feels like trying to solve climate change by separating and recycling plastic from my trash. It does help, but the most I can do is asymptotically approach equivalence with me not existing at all or being a complete shut-in. I became vegan once I internalized the harm I participated in toward animals... and still, my efforts can at most be equivalent to me taking up zero space. The problem is still there even if I individually do everything right.

Most people collectively, and not voluntarily, gave up on slowing covid once the governments of the world decided it was over... because losing one's job and starving is a more concrete threat than covid for a lot of people.. or at least that is how they perceive it. It's not fair and it is an example of how society leaves behind the disabled. Yet... I don't feel anger toward random individuals who are more or less just scraping by. The problem is bigger than a single person, it's not about the relative difficulty of wearing a mask (it's not that hard) it's about the perceived futility of it all.

Practically speaking, fighting for cheap or free vaccines seems more effective than convincing each individual to mask. I don't foresee generalized masking happening again unless a new variant significantly increases mortality rates.