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I am very interested in this topic as I remain a diehard masker since the pandemic began.

I for one am extremely uncomfortable simply being around the maskless. I consider the maskless a danger to me as well as to themselves and to each other. I have shunned the maskless as much as possible. I do every thing remotely, keeping to myself caring for my immunocompromised elderly loved one. We stay at home.. avoiding visits from people including family and neighbors all of whom don’t seem to respect my masked way of life enough to wear a mask for themselves. This is my preferred way of being safe.

I have retired from what I consider ‘the rat race’ of maskless. I am at peace with shunning the maskless and consider this as a rational response considering the reality and effectiveness of the current diseases. I don’t do drugs, nor do I drink,  nor am i sick in body, so I am of sound mind and believe in myself. I have the advantage in life in that I wear the mask. The maskless certainly don’t have any redeeming qualities insofar as being impervious to diseases go.. the maskless are weak and might even die .. that’s not my cup of tea. I don’t want to suffer or possibly die from a disease (I lived with allergies and asthma as a child)
.. I guess that helps me.. simply knowing I’d rather deal with the psychological repercussions of wearing my mask than to get sick like the multitude. There are too many instances in history where the multitude are in denial when it comes to diseases … look at the Spanish flu during 1918.. nothing but denial .. same as today.

Since 2020 covid levels in my state fluctuate but the threat and covid itself remains.. currently it’s September 2024 and here in  my state wastewater levels of covid are sky high and shown as bright red all over my state.. 

Covid has not been eradicated. There is data and proof of this that there is covid not too mention other diseases occur amongst us at a fairly high rate .. this unacceptable to me for what it’s worth..  Not only covid, but many other airborne diseases seem to prevail as well that could be prevented by masking.

I guess I’d rather be a prisoner to the mask than my body be a prisoner to a disease..I'd even rather be a prisoner to the mask than prisoner to the fear of disease. Wearing a mask alleviates the rational fear and genuine concerns of catching a disease during this pandemic as I have bigger things to think and worry about it. Simply worrying about disease exposure is time consuming and is remedied by mask.
The discomfort of the mask is reversible in other words, the discomfort if any of the mask goes away when I take off the mask after use while the disease like covid or long covid is irreversible in other words I can’t take the disease off or out of me at my own will.

I am interested in hearing whatever inner dialogue or psychological tricks people use when they do go out in public in their masks.

In my mask, I feel fairly comfortable zipping around outdoors through public areas on my bicycle because I feel I can avoid people.

One thing that helps me is knowing I am overall healthier and happier now in my masked way of life than in prepandemic days/times and I have no desire to go back into the past before I was masking. Ive never gotten covid. After four and a half years of masking I’m not about to stop masking now.. lol

I would prefer to do only business with only maskers… I currently allow mailman ups and fed ex people to drop off goods onto my front porch .. I don’t approach them because they are maskless. That being said anybody knocks on my door without a mask I never answer the door or I come out my back door with my mask on and from a distance I firmly holler or announce “ this is private property ! You must leave!” Then I walk away avoiding confrontation back through my back yard and back door and wash my hands , clothes and take a shower.


I would feel comfortable if it was planned out hanging out or visiting with another person who also masked in an outdoor environment away from the maskless.

I guess my Masked philosophy is:
I prefer to deal with whatever psychological repercussions my masking and isolation practices might lead to rather than to deal with the psychological repercussions of having exposed myself to long covid that day and/or the physical non reversible repercussions of contracting, carrying and exposing others to long covid or any other disease at this point in my healthy apparently disease free life.

I mask ever time I go out the door even in my own yard.. I haven’t gotten covid or any other illness in  four and a half years of my masking practices. When the pandemic first came out, every time somebody said their was a cure or answer for covid, I said to myself I’ll mask for six months or so no matter what to see if anything actually eradicates covid. I sort of pledged I’ll wait six months maybe 9 months until people stop getting sick before I even consider going around unmasked.. the pandemic was declared over by a few so called leaders in this world more than once .. I never took my mask off and those leaders got sick and made their loved ones and their constituency sick .. that inspired me to continue wearing mask.. now I’m used to my masked way of life. My mask is like a pair of glasses for me. The Heck with disease is my attitude…

My philosophy is in the long run “only the masked will survive” I’m sort of counting and banking on the masked way way of living and that the public masked way of life is the way of the future .. not many people feel like me but I don’t care what people feel .. if things continue like they have since 2020 .. that is if these diseases continue for yet  another four and a half years  I can safely assume almost all the maskless will at least have long covid.
For the maskless I ask how many bouts of covid can their brains and hearts handle and what will the next variant do? I’m thinking the disease might get the upper hand because of many factors and cyclic movements amongst population, rate of travel, mutations proving people wrong..climate change creating favorable conditions.. etc..

I treat the mask like a tool… people use filters for water.. they use filters to protect their cars..why not filter the air with a mask in this day and age being witnessed to all the politicians and superstars making each other sick and simply looking at the history of covid thus far and the mere threat of a mutating virus  I personally think it wise for me to invest in personal strategies  to avoid diseases.. I like reducing my chances of disease. I consider people that mask to be highly intelligent. I do not think highly of taking any chances with a tiny microscopic entity that could and will whup me. I’m a tough guy but I know my limits.. I know to never accept a fight I can’t win. tough as I am I am not impervious to disease..I hate and despise useless chronic suffering.. those are just some of the reasons I mask. 

I think onto myself if I am right or wrong about wearing the mask nobody dies for my masking advice while when politicians and so called experts are wrong about about pandemics being over or wrong about cures people die.

Lol.. Im a real “Maskhole”…lol I really can’t stand the maskless and I avoid the maskless like the plague. I haven’t suffered for having worn my mask.. I’m ready for the next pandemic and this one too.. I don’t know how the masked can stand even looking at the maskless. It’s almost like I see the germs .. those germs are proven by electron microscope.. covid is a real phenomenon I guess There’s  something in me that makes me hate disease enough to guard against them. As soon as the pandemic of covid hit in 2020 I instantly decided I’m using a mask! I didn’t think twice. I just knew in my gut I didn’t want to play with covid.. I knew instantly there might be long term repercussions from the disease and that’s why I masked and lo and behold I was right for fearing this as it turns out there is long covid.
All I know is I think most Americans have had it too good never been sick  or something as I had allergies and asthma as a child for many years and so maybe I’m more humble and I know what it’s like to have suffered a little disease while most other people never have been sick enough to fear or respect a disease enough to wear a mask..
i respect the disease and In the long run I’m better off in my mask even if the disease only affects 10 percent of us, I’m not rolling a one on that 10 sided dice over and over.. I wear a mask and roll less dice! lol .. even if theoretically the mask was not always  necessary for me to wear I am glad for my wearing it anyway .. who would not want to master such a skill? In other words to me it’s like martial arts it’s great to be trained and capable and well practiced and know you can defend yourself yet you hope and pray you never have to use your martial arts.. to me it’s the same with mask.. I wear it as self defense and although I am most likely to be impervious of disease in my mask I don’t look for a fight or enter into a group of disease carrying people or maskless people on purpose. I prefer not to test my mask. In other words my mask is on but I try not to dirty my mask by being around the maskless. 

If I did want to or have to collaborate in person with others I prefer to be around other masked people who have the same respect and rational fears or rather concerns and understanding that I have.

I am very interested in how others feel when they mask.

I like Steve's viewpoints,

Yes, There's so much more that could be done.
I'd like to comment, To me, its so ironic that while the the 9/11 events of terrorism forever changed the way airports handle security, four and a half years straight of an insidious mutating virus has done very little to change any policies or practices at medical institutes. Insofar as masks go, the practice amongst medical teams vary and change as often as the seasons (while there seems to be a new variant on the rise every season or two). Not to belittle how many lives were lost during 9/11, we are still losing lives to covid and I expect doctors and those in the medical field to lead the way and take every measure of protection  available to accommodate the the type of people that seek medical help. It seems preposterous to me that the very thing that prevents diseases such as masks, antiseptic cleaning of all surfaces in front of patients, etc. might be lacking considering the nature of the work at hand.I'm sure there are some medical institutes out there taking every precaution but I would expect all medical institutes to take this pandemic more seriously than most institutes have. Medical institutes are dealing with people in a 'weakened state' and its not fair for them to risk getting sicker because of lack of protective measures being taken on the part of a medical institute and the people who work there. I'd include and  pharmacies in my list as worthy of being called a  medical institute considering pharmacies dispense medicine, medical equipment and are supposed to serve and protect those that require such products.. Yeah doctors who want me to keep calling them doctors need to protect people in their waiting rooms and reception areas from infecting one another..that's what I'd do if I was a doctor. Its in the Hippocratic oath to do so. Doctors are definitely supposed to prevent diseases..its one of their job requirements.

As a child a hospital saved my life as I had a horrible allergy/asthma attack which required hospitalization. I was very lucky in the doctors and nurses had the sense enough to mask around me and even construct a tent around my bed while I was in a weakened state so as to protect me. These precautions kept patients and visitors from breathing on me and giving me anything contagious like a silly cold. A silly cold might kill someone in a weakened state ... my doctors and nurses knew this in the 1970's even when no mutating viruses were circulating and no outstanding diseases were prevalent like they are now and have been since our covid pandemic began around 2020. So anyway I find it hard to believe many maskless doctors, maskless nurses , and especially their maskless receptionists and people in the waiting room don't do as much as was done for me back in the 70's when I was in a weakened state in the hospital. I am somewhat in shock that in the year 2024, given how levels of covid are showing up in wastewater proving to us all that covid is traveling around that all medical care facilities aren't doing more like airports did and continue to do when 9/11 hit. Think I mind airport people checking my baggage for bombs or knives at an airport?..I don't mind after those two buildings went down... think I'd mind masking up in a doctor's waiting room during a pandemic? Heck no, I don't mind masking under these conditions.  I welcome Masking..Ive already got my mask on!   Currently I live in NC and currently according to CDC all 34 wastewater sites in NC are reporting very high covid levels. Covid is teeming here in NC.
Today I rode my bicycle in my mask and a jumpsuit past a college university and did a six mile round trip in my town and as far as I know I am the only one in a mask. It's all right there in the wastewater. Covid exists. I'm taking it seriously. Nobody at the local university has their thinking cap on much less their mask. Some people insist on learning the hard way. I saw a lot of college kids give me the looks when I rode by on my bicycle in a mask.. hopefully one or two of them will think about it and maybe even wear a Mask next time they get on that bus. Methinks, maybe the maskless people think of me as the little boy that cried wolf as I ride by on my bicycle in my mask while covid is the wolf.. who knows what transpires in the minds of the maskless, , I do know I'm no match for a wolf nor am I match for a mutating virus from which at any given moment a deadly variant could emerge... this could go any way.. the virus could fade away but it could get worse far worse than ever. I'm not taking any chances. I don't roll that dice. My health is valuable to me. I have my Mask and my own code of conduct and my own set of rules.. hopefully society or the general public will develop or become more in tune with what it needs insofar as being more conscientious and developing better 'customs' and practices that make sense during a pandemic to make things more safe for one another if they are deserving enough...lol.

Certainly we would ridicule some guy for leaning over and sniffing on a dead animal on the side of the road but we don't ridicule the maskless doctor or maskless person enough in my opinion for sniffing on one diseased person while breathing on another. That is precisely what is happening in my area because currently Covid levels are very high in all 34 wastewater sites in my state as I type this. People are infecting each other and my entire state is evidently the perfect grounds for breeding viruses amongst one another. The very high levels covid in the wastewater prove me right. That's proof that more needs to be done. Note I have never taken down my guard or my mask off regardless of viral activity levels in my area. There's no travel restrictions here and the reason the viral activity is high is because of the stuff that is coming out of people's faces. We know that much or rather we know that little about the matter.

It never ceases to amaze me how good people are with everything other than their own own bodies: people use filters in their cars(in fact a car won't run and its engine will be destroyed without the filters). Then many people use a filter for to keep their water clean and make it safe to drink..I see nothing wrong with breathing through a filter to simply protect my pink inwards from breathing in a microscopic entity that's already more than proved its capabilities of wreaking havoc and destroying more than enough lives to be comfortable with...
A mask a day keeps the doctor away,
The Masked Man