#fuck anti maskers

[cormancatacombs]

#the matrix #1984 #they live #leftism #meme #fuck conservatives #fuck right wingers #missing the point #george orwell #the wachowskis #john carpenter #science fiction #sci fi #speculative fiction #media literacy #fuck republicans #fuck incels #fuck transphobes #fuck anti vaxxers #fuck anti maskers

[staaa96]

The worst part of Covid for me is the fact that it didn’t end with me no longer being positive… I’ve since developed asthma… which I initially outgrew as a kid, and have had stomach issues WEEKLY 🙃 I’ve said it once & I’ll say it a million times more Fuck everyone who was at Newark d2 with me and didn’t wear a mask & fuck everyone else who went to a concert without one 🖕🏽

#angry post #venting #fuck covid #fuck antivaxers #fuck anti maskers

[chaosdisorganized]

We have to wear face shields at the facility we're working at and if you though masks were bad? Try working a 12 hour shift with a mask and shield in 70 and 80° weather (:

#fuck anti maskers

[cookinguptales]

god, rn I'm thinking about the way people with terrible family members just like. understand each other.

last time I went to go see my hair stylist, I was updating him on my life and told him that my grandmother had died on thanksgiving and he was just like "ugh. passive-aggressive."

friends, I was dying laughing in that chair because he was not wrong.

#she'd been guilting my mother for not coming to see that side of the family for thanksgiving #but they're all anti-vaxxer anti-maskers who've put my (high-risk) mother at risk several times #so she was 'abandoning' her mother and having dinner with dad's side of the family #and then gramma DIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THANKSGIVING DINNER and mom had to leave early to go fly out there #irrational or not it did kind of feel like a fuck you #like damn gramma I guess you had to ruin one more family dinner on your way out #and then ofc mom's shitty sister went to the funeral knowing she had covid :| #like she was going for a family fatality combo bonus or something

[complicitsacrilege]

To everyone who says you can’t breathe in a stupid little paper mask: I have full blown COVID and asthma and I’m in an n95 with no supplemental oxygen with levels at 99% after a neb treatment for my lungs.

Fuck off and mask up.

#COVID #anti maskers fuck off #personal #feel free to rb tho

[worms-in-my-brain]

Oh boy do I actually have a story for this account that I nearly completely forgot until I thought more about the subject of anti-maskers.

So this was maybe two years ago, during a really bad COVID spike in my city. But it was towards the ‘end’ of the pandemic (well. It hasn’t ended but it was towards when people started calling it the ‘end’) so people were starting to be… worse… about wearing masks. Anyway, I was at the grocery store. It was reaaaally crowded, and despite most people there wearing masks, there were still a good portion not wearing them, so I was a little impatient to leave.

So I’m in the super long line. Luckily the people around me are wearing masks. Except… the person in front of my has their nose out of their mask.

So I’m thinking. Do I say something. Because come on, we’ve been doing this for years, it’s not hard. But also I don’t want to like Get Into a Confrontation. But I look at this person, they have dyed hair and cool earrings and generally look queer. I kinda sigh with relief and think, oh, this person is probably not, like, super conservative, luckily I can probably say something.

So I say, “excuse me?” and they turn around to look at me. “Sorry, would you mind pulling your mask over your nose?”

Now I’m not gonna lie I don’t remember word for word what happened next because I ended up dissociating hardcore. But I do remember that they got, like, mad. Like they started yelling at me and shit. Something along the lines of, “oh yeah? You want me to pull it up? What, are you scared? Are you scared?” Surprised, I made the mistake of. Responding. I said something like, “well, yeah, it’s not that big a deal?” And that SET THEM OFF!! They pulled their mask on and started trying to get super close to me.

Now keep in MIND that I am disabled and while I don’t know for sure if I’m immunocompromised or anything, I do have weird nebulous lung issues, and have had periods where I’ve been sick for like. A year. So I did NOT want to get COVID (for good reason, when I got it a few months ago it left me with long COVID…).

So I have this person trying to get all up in my space and I’m guiltily moving really close to the people in front of me. I try to keep a lot of space between us. But even though I literally do not open my mouth from then on, they keep. Harassing me. Yelling at me, and if I so much as GLANCE in their general direction they start trying to get in my personal space. Like it got so bad that a woman with her son next to me pulled him closer to her because of the ire of this person.

I am autistic and I started to get very overwhelmed. Mostly typical dissociation stuff, but I must have been visibly, like, upset or something because a worker at the grocery store CAME UP AND MOVED ME TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE.

This did NOT make the person happy. And the one time I tried to subtly glance back to see what they were doing as I was checking out, I found them staring daggers at me. Ofc they immediately noticed me even though I tried as hard as possible to be subtle, and they started yelling at me from ACROSS THE STORE.

Anyway so I got out of there ASAP.

Moral of the story is that people are weird and anti-maskers like that are truly the scum of the earth and make life way more difficult and dangerous for every single disabled person out there.

Like I literally was in disbelief the whole time, thinking, I wouldn’t even believe this if I read it online. I can’t believe things like this actually happen. So yeah anyone who doesn’t believe this. I totally understand lmao. But also be careful out there… pls learn from my mistakes 🙇

#disabled #actually disabled #disability #chronically ill #storytime #Cyril.txt #anti maskers #actually what the fuck was wrong w that person im still in shock

[brunetterightsactivist]

Legitimately never in my life met or even known of someone who refused to talk to or interact with people based on astrology. People love to talk about that point and I’m like ok but where are the astrology freaks that actually use that as an excuse? The real issue with astro people is there’s this weird pipeline into like hippie liberalism leading to antivax conspiracy conservatism and then into alt right nazi territory and that is a REAL phenomenon I have witnessed from actual lunatics. Like that’s the problem with astrology if you wanna actually discuss its flaws. And that’s not even relating to astrology really that’s just more the type of people that get involved in the community

#I think it’s like when you’re soooo open minded that ur brain falls out of ur head #they always wanna hear people out like lmao stop hearing the fucking anti masker out they’re a nut job #but never ever as someone ACTUALLY been like ‘omg no way I’m gonna talk to this Virgo’ like that is literally not real #men love to say this happens to them no king she just didn’t like you. wake up

[softbutchthatlovesyou]

If you don't want to wear a mask fine fuck you but whatever but I wish people woud stop saying "You don'thave to wear those anymore."

1. Stop assuming I'm only masked bc I think there's a madate. That got lifted last year. I KNOW.

2. I AM WEARING IT BC IM COMPROMISED I CANT GET SICK I hATE YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR REFUSAL TO THINK OF DISABLED PEOPLE FOR FIVE. FUCKING. MINUTES.

#Crying and yelling and throwing up #lectured more than once on how its 'my choice' #i will die if i catch the flu #on the wron year #i hate anti maskers #not bc of the anti mask #but their fucking behavior about it #gideons talking time #ableism

[spreadtunes22]

Hear is something for anybody manipulated by this false covid info.

#anti vaxxers #anti maskers #fuck covid

[yautjalover]

I really like your icon and the fact that no one made a face hugger mask is a crime

Actually, someone did and then folks proceeded to copy it!

Jeff Barnaby made this in 2020. He’s an artist over here at Twitter. He also made a C-PAP mask as well for those with the humor to sleep in one! Look up Facehugger Mask and you’ll find many copies! :)

#this is dead ass real #yautjalover #face hugger #free masks #anti-maskers suck #alien #Xenomorph life cycle #this would scare the fuck outta me if I forgot that I put it on 😂 #no cap

[i-amusemyself]

Masterpost on Mask Efficacy Reseach in Covid-19

Sick of hearing that masks don’t work? Me too :)))) here’s some research studies showing that they do for next time Karen starts Karening.

(Correct as of August 2022)

A general respiratory viruses review (there are many more but that’s a post for another day):

A review of studies showing mask wearing prevents respiratory virus transmission including SARS, influenza, bird flu and Covid-19.

Wang et al., 2021 doi: 10.1002/mds3.10163

Animal models and masks with Covid-19

This study placed hamsters in separate cages and measured transmission of Covid-19 from an infected hamster to a healthy one. Surgical masks were shown to decrease infection rates.

Chan et al., 2020 doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa644

Mathematical models/simulations and masks with Covid-19

Mathematical modeling demonstrates mask ability to reduce transmission and mortality. It shows even masks of low efficacy can do this transmission rate is low or decreasing.

Eikenberry et al., 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.idm.2020.04.001

Mathematical modelling shows that higher quality face masks can protect the wearer from Covid-19, but two-way masking is better than one-way masking.

Bagheri et al., 2021 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110117118

Researchers made a cough aerosol simulator to test how well different masks blocked the aerosol. N95 masks blocked 99%, surgical masks blocked 59%, cloth masks blocked 51% and face shields blocked only 2%.

Lindsly et al., 2021 doi: 10.1080/02786826.2020.1862409

Medical grade respirator masks are able to filter particles the size of Covid-19, while poorer quality masks are still able to filter larger aerosol particles which likely contain the virus.

Robinson et al., 2022 doi: 10.1080/02786826.2022.2042467

A model based on close-contact behaviour on the Subway showed that virus exposure could be reduced by 82% if all passengers wore surgical masks.

Liu et al, 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129233

Community settings and masks with Covid-19

A study looking back at 124 households in Beijing found that when one family member had Covid-19, risk of secondary infections within the household decreased by 79% if the infected member started masking before symptoms.

Wang et al., 2020 doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-00279

In Hong Kong, in the period studied, masking compliance was 96.6% and Covid-19 incidence was significantly lower per million people than in countries with less mask compliance.

Cheng et al., 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.04.024

A study of 211 Covid-19 cases and 839 controls in Thailand showed that consistent mask wearing was independently associated with reduced risk of Covid-19 infection.

Doung-ngern et al., 2020 doi: 10.3201/eid2611.203003

Introduction of mask mandates in states across the US was associated with a decline in Covid-19 infection growth rates.

Lyu and Wehby doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818

A randomised trial in nearly 350,000 people in Bangladesh found that mask wearing significantly reduced symptomatic Covid-19 infections.

Abaluck et al., 2021

In US counties with masking mandates, daily case incidence declined by 35% in 6 weeks compared to matched counties without masking mandates.

Huang et al., 2022 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072

An outbreak of Covid-19 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which carried 382 men, showed that those that wore face coverings were 70% less likely to become infected.

Payne et al., 2020 doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6923e4    

A study of mask wearing in 20 million people, alongside Covid-19 infection data from 92 regions showed that mask wearing corresponds to a 19% reduction in Covid-19 reproductive number, R.

Leech et al., 2022 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2119266119

Young children wearing masks was associated with a 13% reduction in risk of childcare program closure due to Covid-19, meaning more in-person education.

Murray et al., 2022 doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.41227

Healthcare settings and masks with Covid-19

A hospital in Massachusetts managed to decrease rates of Covid-19 infection amongst 10,000 staff with universal masking, despite increasing rates of infection in the community.

Wang et al., 2020 doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.12897

A North Carolina health provider showed that epidemiological curve of healthcare-aquired Covid-19 infections was flattened in healthcare workers following a universal masking policy. This was despite increasing community incidence.

Seidelman et al., 2020 doi: 0.1017/ice.2020.313

A study of 29 general hospitals in Israel found that hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections among healthcare workers only started to decline following a universal masking mandate for all staff, patients and visitors.

Temkin et al., 2021 doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.207.Epub

A systematic review of 13 studies in healthcare and the community found that probability of Covid-19 infection for mask wearers was 7%, compared with 52% for non-mask wearers.

Alihsan et al., 2022 doi: 10.1101/2022.07.28.22278153

Properly fitted N95 masks alongside high quality air filtration can protect from Covid-19 infection for long periods, even with high viral loads at close range.

Landry et al., 2022 doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac195

This study shows masks were able to block the exhalation of virus particles by individuals infected by Covid-19 in Brazil.

Mello et al., 2022 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264389

“But masks can harbour bacteria and fungi and give you pneumonia”

This is most likely referring to the study by Park et al., 2022 doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15409-x 

However, if they actually read the paper they would find that:

Most fungi found were on the outside of the mask. Most fungi were opportunistic pathogens (only a danger to immunocompromised), rather than pathogenic.

Most bacteria were non-pathogenic in humans. Of the bacteria that were potentially pathogenic, most were commensal (normally found within the body) or opportunistic (don’t cause harm unless immunocompromised).

The article does not recommend against mask use, only repeated use of the same mask in immunocompromised individuals.

The paper points out that masks reduce transmission of Covid-19.

The paper points out that pathogenic bacteria and fungi are detectable on many materials we use in daily life.

And if you’re really worried about what’s on your mask:

Masks can be sterilized with steam or hot water without compromising their efficacy.

Rahman et al., 2022 doi: 10.3390/polym14071296

“But studies show that masks don’t work”

The most commonly cited evidence of this is a Danish study on the effectiveness of adding a mask mandate.

Bundgaard et al., 2021 doi: 10.7326/M20-6817

This study found that there was no significant difference in infection rates in 4000 Danes, between those recommended masks and those not recommended masks.

However, the study has many limitations which may explain why results differ from the majority of mask studies:

Infection rates reported in the study were not comparable with rates reported in the Danish population at the time.

Fewer people were infected in the masked group, but not to a level of statistical significance. The authors state that results are inconclusive, as opposed to concluding that masks provide no protection.

Only surgical masks were given to participants, which have a limited ability to protect the wearer from airborne viruses vs aerosolised viruses due to their loose fit.

The study only assessed how effectively the masks protected the wearer, not how well it reduced transmission to others.

In the group where masks were recommended, only 46% reported wearing their masks completely as recommended. I.e. more than half of this group did not always wear a mask.

The authors themselves state that the findings should not be used to conclude that mask recommendations in the community would not be effective in controlling Covid-19 spread.

“But masks make it hard to communicate!”

Data is mixed on expression recognition, but some studies show masks have no detrimental effect. Also, context and additional non-verbal cues are often not considered in studies.

A study of children aged 7-13 found that face masks did not impair ability to infer emotions.

Ruba and Pollack, 2020 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243708

Also, clear face masks are available, including clear surgical masks and clear respirators.

“But masks reduce oxygenation”

Wearing a face mask does not cause low O2 nor high CO2 at rest or during activity.

Shein et al., 2021 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247414

Gas exchange is not significantly affected by the use of surgical mask, even in subjects with severe lung impairment.

Samannan et al., 2020 doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202007-812RL                                

THAT graph that anti-maskers love to show

“Fig. 3. Correlation between Infection Rate and Annual Mask Usage generated from discarded face masks. (USA: United States of America; UK: United Kingdom)”

This graph actually comes from a paper on microplastics from face mask disposal, as opposed to anything epidemiological.

Shukla et al., 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134805

This graph does not accurately show the Annual Mask Usage (AMU) of each country to an accuracy that could ever be used in a paper with an epidemiological focus.

The authors did not account for variable mask usage in different countries and they use no real world data used on this. Instead, variation in Annual Mask Usage (AMU) is estimated by considering the population of each country in rural vs urban areas, and the presumed acceptance of masks in each area, which is constant for each country (10% in rural areas vs 80% in urban). Basically, this graph shows no accurate data on mask wearing in each country.

The authors also state that there is a correlation between AMU and infection rate. However, the country with the greatest population in the world, China, counters this trend. Equally, the data for India and Brazil, which also have a large proportion of the global population, also contradict this conclusion. This would explain why the authors never attempted to provide statistical tests to prove the correlation that they have supposedly found.

I think that about sums it up, but feel free to add more!

#at some point ill get around to a post about why you should give a fuck about not getting covid in the first place #but not rn lol #masks #mask wearing #wear a mask #masks stop covid #mask research #anti maskers #mask hesitant #antimask #antimaskers #mask masterpost #masterpost #research masterpost #information masterpost #public health #pandemic #covid-19 #coronavirus #sarscov2 #sars-cov-2 #covid pandemic #global health #long covid #psa #covid19 #covid #surgical mask #ffp2 #ffp3

[humandisastersquad]

[thinks about the way authorities and society have massively fucked up the response to covid for .5 seconds]

[starts glowing incandescently with rage]

#gensuinely so fucked up how human life and health #ESPECIALLY that of disabled/chronically ill/other medically vulnerable people #has been completely disregarded in the name of the economy and ‘Normalcy’ #what fucking normalcy #nothing about this is normal #people are dying and we are experiencing a mass disabling event #and most people are too selfish to wear a fucking mask #I’m going to tear every anti masker anti vaxxer and covid minimiser to shreds with my bare hands

[oflgtfol]

imploring anyone who lives in new york state to do everything you can to not let lee zeldin win the upcoming gubernatorial election. as someone who lives in his congressional district this man is fucking insane. do not let him become GOVERNOR

#brot posts #i doubt hes gonna win bc thank god the cities make this state blue #but still. the fact hes running for governor at all is scary as hell #this man is an anti masker a whole ‘covid is a hoax’ conspiracy guy #this man fucking supported the jan 6th insurrection and the whole ‘2020 election fraud’ bullshit #he is STILL on that bullshit actually despite all this time #I HATE THIS MAN !!!!

[pepprs]

ROOMIE IS FEELING SICK ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

#she went out and partied on Saturday and i saw her yesterdsy too like LMFAOOOOOOOOO i HATE IT HERE. first we were accosted by an anti masker #today and he fucking breathed his germs into the office and now im scared he exposed us and then i get home and my roomie isn’t feeling well #and now we have to play the waiting game w her results and stuff. like i am going to punch a hole in the wall so genuinely. STOP GOING TO #FUCKING PARTIES I AM BEGGING YOU!!!!!!! if you get us all sick i will never speak to you again 💖 like not these fucking selfish assholes #taking away the last moments of peace and normalcy i will have for a long time. anything but that. i can’t take it 💖 #purrs #my capstone presentation rehearsal no. 2 is literally tomorrow and the big one is on friday and also i have to pick up my graduation cords a #and do facilitator training shit and apply for my own fucking job (cringe and pompous to say this but it’s TRUE) and do all this other stuff #and km losing my fucking mind like can everyone PLEASE stop having things happen just for a couple more weeks i am begging you!

[godofsmallthings]

have you had covid before?

double vaxxed healthy young person here, when i caught it, i immediately knew it was covid even though i got the omicron strain that didn't usually show up on rapid tests. it's quite a bit different from a regular ol' cold and it was like my body just knew.

i had it back in april...i'm also a double vaxxed healthy young person w/ one booster and when i had it it just felt like the reactions i had to my vaccines but more intense and long-lasting. i felt symptoms pretty much all the way through the 2-week mark too, and still would sometimes have like weird coughing fits a couple months afterwards (which seem to be gone now so slay!). but yeah i was exposed recently which is why i've been freaking out (also bc i'm home and really didn't want to get my family sick) but i've only had a sore throat and feel nothing close to how intense it felt before so i'm hoping i'm in the clear <3

#idk the covid guilt of being pretty careful and then getting it the moment you do something 'not careful' is kind of not fun #idk im so glad im over my anti maskers shaming era #(as in like...not covid deniers just ppl who are basically following mask mandates) #idk i still wear masks a lot of places so whenever i don't im like 'this better be fucking worth it to get sick' #and idk i still think people should be a little more cautious than they are #(like even if not for you for immunocompromised ppl) #but the guilt is kind of ridiculous especially when it's directed at other people. idk. #anyway u get what i mean ill stop having a lil tags rant sorry anon fjdkfbdkbdkd #ask

[s0fter-sin]

my sister: i wanna get covid so we can get a week vacation

my chronically ill ass:

#also just nevermind the millions of people that have died #bc the people she knows have only gotten mild cases shes basically convinced that its just a cold #and that we dont have the bad strains here #if she were to get it from her friends then shed only get the mild version #like??? bitch??? #if i get covid im fucked #why do you think weve been so careful for over 2 years #and you coming in here just wanting a vacation? #she just straight up doesnt realise or care how insensitive she is #shes an anti masker too and was basically bullied into getting the vaccine #shes two steps from being an anti vaxer #just #how thick can you get #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt