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Fauci's successor considers mask-wearing to be traumatizing (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Jeanne Marrazzo, new leader of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, everyone:

Can I make a quick digression? We recently had a long Covid [research] meeting where we had about 200 people, in person. And we can’t mandate mask-wearing, because it’s federal property. But there was a fair amount of disturbance that we couldn’t, and people weren’t wearing masks, and one person accused us of committing a microaggression by not wearing masks.

And I take that very seriously. But I thought to myself, it’s more that people just want to live a normal life. We really don’t want to go back. It was so painful. We’re still all traumatized. Let’s be honest about that. None of us are over it.

So there’s not a lot of appetite for raising an alarm, especially if it could be perceived subsequently as a false alarm.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wearing a mask was the least traumatizing thing of the pandemic! It's the most comfortable my autistic ass has felt in years, don't even know why, but it was so nice to be able to just have my face covered in public for the first time

Fuck these ghouls

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's not that wearing masks is traumatic per se. It's that experiencing the pandemic - a deadly years long event where the government did nothing to help people - was traumatic, and the response these people are having to their trauma is to try to ignore it as best as possible. Which means not masking, and freaking out when people mask. We're so cooked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The government wants us all to die.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ok I know that & basically said it anyway. Unfortunately all the people outside the CDC freaking out about masks are not the government

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I went four years without even getting a cold. Masks are amazing. My only regret is that I wasn't wearing one before the pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The air pollution in my city due to all the cremations, the wailing ambulance sirens all day long? Just minor annoyances. The mask, though!