It’s just super frustrating seeing people who are supposedly my brothers and sisters, who I’ve been there to the hilt, who know that my partner is struggling, who know that I’m terrified. We’ve gone through the science and racial and class inequalities together and they’ve voiced how they should mask a hundred times. And then they come to meet me IRL totally fucking unmasked, without even a fucking apology.

Well, if you’re “back to normal”, I’ll sit and watch you eat outside, but I’m not taking my mask off in front of you. I’ll wait till you finish your meal, and I’ll head home early. If I’ve complained about no masking two times already, you heard it enough, I’m not going to complain again.

Am I overreacting?

Edit: for those of griping that you’re not allowed to do COVID minimisation in this comm. These would be valid answer:

  • Maybe your friend forgot
  • Maybe your friend was tired
  • Maybe your friend was hung over
  • Your friend made a mistake but you should forgive him
  • I’m not yet fully covid conscious, but I’m trying
  • We can’t all be perfect. Hopefully they do better next time.

Not acceptable:

  • Oh here’s a tidbit about masks that’s been disproven in the science literature 10x already
  • Oh the chuds and libs aren’t masking, and I feel peer pressured
    • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Coming from someone who’s flirted with giving up entirely in the past: You’re wrong and should re-evaluate why you think this. Being outside tends to improve ventilation but it’s not a silver bullet. If one wishes to avoid covid infection, then not eating at the same table, only a couple feet away, from a person who’s been taking zero precautions, is a risk. Walking in the park, sure probably no need to mask there, it’s usually easy to maintain some distance and you don’t have prolonged contact with anyone, but sitting at the same table for an hour is not the same as that. But if say, there was a festival going on in the park and you can’t avoid the crowds, masking becomes necessary again if you want to maintain a low level of risk. It’s highly situational.

      Just because you don’t want to do it doesn’t mean nobody else should or that there’s no reason to.