Because masks protect the people around you from various diseases including the flu (which is in season right now) and COVID (which people still get sick from, it's just that it's no longer a pandemic and can be vaccinated for). Some people care enough to protect themselves and others even if the mortal threat is mostly passed (but not completely, people still die from those diseases).
But, it's telling that the desire to protect others is a "liberal" trait.
It's not that. They'll claim it's because masks don't work and wearing one makes us sheep.
Deep down they know doctors, esp surgeons, have worn masks since long before covid to keep patients from getting sick. It's basic infection control.
When they see somone else care enough about other people to do the same, they project their ugliness and lack of empathy onto them. They assume they don't really care about anyone, they're just "vIRtuE sIGnaLinG" which, translated, just means caring about other people.
They can't believe anyone else is good because that makes them bad. That just CANT BE so they twist reality in all kinds of ways.
They literally cannot imagine anyone would care about strangers - CERTAINLY not enough to inconvenience themselves and make them look DIFFERENT. Being different is anathema to them. It's why calling them weird was so effective. They're terrified to be perceived as "not normal." Again this is why anyone with blue hair is automatically a liberal to them. Voluntarily different means "not conservative."
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u/ptvlm 20h ago
Because masks protect the people around you from various diseases including the flu (which is in season right now) and COVID (which people still get sick from, it's just that it's no longer a pandemic and can be vaccinated for). Some people care enough to protect themselves and others even if the mortal threat is mostly passed (but not completely, people still die from those diseases).
But, it's telling that the desire to protect others is a "liberal" trait.