Kirby703

local clown

  • she/her

speedrunner, tetris player, programmery human, absolute nerd

there is tetris on my youtube and twitch but I continue to not port content between them


doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

i'm still masking in public. it's to avoid covid, because i'm still not about to roll those dice when i already have enough Chronic Everything. but when people pester me about wearing a mask, i don't even mention covid-- i just tell them the True Fact that i used come down with bronchitis about every 6 months and i haven't had it since masking started.

covid denialists don't know what to do with this. they are trying to spark a confrontation about the vaccines. they're expecting you to be defensive or angry and they are 100% unprepared for someone to just be like "eh i dunno i stopped getting sick all the time and i liked it." during my last couple of months in retail i threw some people for a loop at the register this way. unless they really, really want to fight, there's not much to grab on to, so they just sort of stop making eye contact and change the subject. it's extremely funny and i highly recommend it.


hootOS
@hootOS

highly recommend this. it genuinely kills the conversation dead, right there, on the spot. and while it is true i haven't been sick since i started wearing my mask, it's also true that my mask hides the fact i have no teeth and i've also only been gendered correctly while wearing it. so like, wearing a mask is just genuinely good for me, so im just gonna keep doing it.

don't let social pressure make you think wearing a mask is a dead fad or socially bad or whatever. just wear one. getting a cold sucks, runny noses suck, and masks help you not get a runny nose. simple as.


Kirby703
@Kirby703

it's like a little safety blanket for my face. it keeps my face warm in the winter. it makes face recognition fail a little more often. nobody notices if I forget to emote with my mouth, and I get to smile up to my eyes if I see someone else who's wearing a mask / visibly queer / friendly. the reasons listed above are great too, of course.

while we're at it, someone linked me to this seller in the US - 10 of my favorite kn95 for $10.70 is a much better price than cvs


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in reply to @doodlemancy's post:

I remember a time when people were saying they hadn't been sick at all in over a year and it was great, and it seemed like we'd learned things about how real-world disease transmission works, and the air quality improvements that were going to keep covid from killing everyone were going to make us super healthy, and then....

I work with the public. Parents bring their kids to the library when they're sent home sick from school! Of course I'm going to wear a mask. I didn't have a cold for two years.

I have somehow managed to avoid ever having anyone bug me about masking, but my go-to response (which I've brought up in conversations anyway) is

"I saw how some people acted in public even when we were All Worried About Covid, so even if they announce tomorrow that it's disappeared, I'm still wearing this thing, because y'all are just as likely to give me the flu, or whooping cough or something, while I'm trying to buy potato chips."

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