In 2018 I found my mother dead due to a several months post-surgery aneurysm, and my grandmother lost her mom at 11 due to an aneurysm after gallbladder surgery in 1916, and as soon as they started making noise about #Covid being a vascular disease and causing strokes I made the decision to mask in public for the rest of my life.
So there you have it.
I will always #mask. Forever.
I have chronic migraines.
Often they make me think - Is this one the stroke?
Nah. I'll keep masking.
My 16yo started with abdominal migraines at 11 before the first noggin migraine a year ago.
A couple of years ago my younger son was sitting in a chair and said, "EYE GHOSTS!!!" and started swatting at the air in front of his face. So far no pain for him. Only ocular with aura.
Why would I ever want to tempt fate?
Anyway - the point is that masking is to protect others more than yourself, and it's become very clear over the past few years that most people don't get that, and even if they do, they don't care.
THEY have to be "normal" again.
We're supposed to stay home and go insane and die.
You're damn right I'm bitter.
I will always be bitter.
@Shelter I agree, I also cut a pool noodle to put over shopping cart handles so I'm not picking up cooties and I may well do that forever too! Normal is a thing of the before times to me! I come from a brain tumor family history , a great uncle on dads' side then dad in 72 and me in '96 my early 20s and when my daughter was diagnosed with meningitis and a brain abcess on the 3rd anniversary of my surgery I did that "fall to your knees" thing right there in the waiting room!
i always saw the unmasked-and-angry-about-maskers-during-a-pandemic as performative ableism that society just accepted. the rage behind it was(is) so unhealthy and toxic in itself.
@peeppeepcircus @Shelter When I see a bunch of those types in the store I kind of laugh and envision a sci fi movie about mindless drones waiting for the hive mind to be activated!!
right? who needs zombies when we already have antimaskers. 😂
@peeppeepcircus @Shelter Exactly! And if it had been an actual Zombie virus you know they'd have been first in line for masks and vaccines !!!
@Tattoomonkey29 @peeppeepcircus
Still see a whole lot of good ol' boys wearing masks while on their riding mowers.
Which is very good!
But come on, folks.
@Shelter @Tattoomonkey29 @peeppeepcircus The guys wearing mask on mowers probably have an allergy.
@peeppeepcircus @Tattoomonkey29
Like I don't give a single F if anyone thinks I look foolish.
I want to live.
And honestly I could also do without Norovirus, too.
Or the Flu, since I am allergic to the Flu shot and they won't give me, or anyone, the intranasal live vaccine anymore.
oh yes and i LOVE not getting colds or flu anymore btw.
@peeppeepcircus @Tattoomonkey29
Yup.
I've had two allergy induced sinus infections since March of 2020 and that's it.
@peeppeepcircus @Tattoomonkey29
Hey guess what though?
I didn't get an allergy induced sinus infection in the Fall of 2020.
Just 2021 and 2022.
I wonder what was different in the air in 2020... 🤔
@Shelter @peeppeepcircus I haven't gotten sick since then either, nothing but a couple cases of actual food poisoning! I actually went out when the warnings about very first came out about pandemic and stocked up on thera flu type stuff, every now and then I open that drawer and giggle because I haven't had so much as a cold in years!! I wonder if less pollution led to more pollen from healthier trees/plants in those 2 years ,nature was pretty happy about that reprieve?!
@Shelter @peeppeepcircus I don't either and I'm almost immune to funny judgy looks because I have full sleeve tattoos!
@peeppeepcircus @Shelter ❤️ It also makes it easier to spot your cart and is super comfy on the hands ! I keep it in my car and just pop it on the handle :) I made a few for friends too ,they are even at the dollar stores !
@Shelter @Tattoomonkey29
*taking notes on pool noodles