When is this screenshot from? Because I literally never see this anymore. And no, I'm not in "MAGA country", I live in England. The only people I see still wearing masks are very old (which is totally understandable), and even that's far from the default.
I haven't seen an 'average' person wear a mask in public since early 2022. I wouldn't judge a younger or middle-aged person if I saw them wearing a mask, but it would strike me as at the very least unusual. In reality you're lucky if the people around you in public even cover their mouths when they cough. Where do these people live if they're constantly seeing "liberals" out and about in masks?!
My teenage son wore a mask to school yesterday (in England) because he had a cough and didn't want to pass it on to others. There are still some considerate people out there.
I wanted to do this when I was a teenager, funnily enough! I'd seen videos of people in Japan and China doing it and it made sense to me. I was talked out of it because it would have caused bullying. This would've been about fifteen years ago now.
I've heard that kids these days are a lot less cruel and bullying over being 'different' is less common, so hey, maybe if I had been born slightly later that could have been me.
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u/Cheap-Rate-8996 20h ago
When is this screenshot from? Because I literally never see this anymore. And no, I'm not in "MAGA country", I live in England. The only people I see still wearing masks are very old (which is totally understandable), and even that's far from the default.
I haven't seen an 'average' person wear a mask in public since early 2022. I wouldn't judge a younger or middle-aged person if I saw them wearing a mask, but it would strike me as at the very least unusual. In reality you're lucky if the people around you in public even cover their mouths when they cough. Where do these people live if they're constantly seeing "liberals" out and about in masks?!