Vaccinated (Part Two)
May. 15th, 2021 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingPeople are being very outspoken on Twitter and on various podcasts about how much the second shot hurts, and I don't know what's going on with them. I hope they're okay. I am a delicate flower who bruises if you so much as look at me the wrong way; and, for me at least, the second shot was much easier than the first, which wasn't even painful to begin with.
And goddamn it felt so good to walk around outside without a mask yesterday.
Anyway, this is my new guidelines for best practices:
(1) Don't be mean to vaccinated people who stop wearing a mask.
(2) Don't be mean to vaccinated people who continue to wear a mask.
(3) Don't be a dick about business or community rules about wearing a mask.
(4) Don't be a dick to East Asian people wearing masks for non-Covid reasons.
Putting the far-right "freedom" nuts aside, I have to admit that I've been mystified by all the discourse surrounding mask wearing. I personally think masks are cool and cute, and I'm relieved that people in the United States understand what the culture of wearing them is about now, but the theater of virtue signalling through wearing or not wearing a mask is silly.
Even after a year of experimenting with various things, I still find wearing a mask to be extremely uncomfortable (and it gives me the worst acne, holy shit), but it was fun to coordinate my mask with my shoes and belt. If the pandemic taught me anything, it was that I can absolutely get away with wearing bright colors and bold patterns. Honestly we could all die at any point, so why not dress like a wizard in the meantime?
And goddamn it felt so good to walk around outside without a mask yesterday.
Anyway, this is my new guidelines for best practices:
(1) Don't be mean to vaccinated people who stop wearing a mask.
(2) Don't be mean to vaccinated people who continue to wear a mask.
(3) Don't be a dick about business or community rules about wearing a mask.
(4) Don't be a dick to East Asian people wearing masks for non-Covid reasons.
Putting the far-right "freedom" nuts aside, I have to admit that I've been mystified by all the discourse surrounding mask wearing. I personally think masks are cool and cute, and I'm relieved that people in the United States understand what the culture of wearing them is about now, but the theater of virtue signalling through wearing or not wearing a mask is silly.
Even after a year of experimenting with various things, I still find wearing a mask to be extremely uncomfortable (and it gives me the worst acne, holy shit), but it was fun to coordinate my mask with my shoes and belt. If the pandemic taught me anything, it was that I can absolutely get away with wearing bright colors and bold patterns. Honestly we could all die at any point, so why not dress like a wizard in the meantime?
