Today in “unpack this ideology”
A woman came into the cafe wearing a hat with a pin on it that read “I believe science!”
She was not wearing a facemask
oh thats easy
its called cognitive dissonance and its happening with alarming regularity
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in reply to @Keeble's post:
I think it's this weird stance I've seen a lot of people take that's like "pro-mask = vaccine denialism" like if you believe in the importance of masks then you don't believe the vaccines work and therefore are an anti-vaxxer.
When actually the science is that the vaccines work great at preventing you from dying but not from getting and spreading symptomatic or long covid inducing variants and mutations and we don't actually know yet how good the bivalent boosters are at preventing omicron from causing long term symptoms and also 95% protection still means 5% chance of failure for a very very very contagious virus
I think this is a big part of it but not all of it. I saw someone on a post blame liberalism in general, which is pithy, but here in Somerville I haven’t exactly seen leftists overwhelmingly wearing masks anymore (they’re barely better than libs). The cognitive dissonance that mico talks about is also a big part, as is my mom’s favorite point of how the cdc seems to be saying to do everything except wear mask.
Putting these all together where do we end up in the minds of the soft-antimasker, who was very passionate about masking until some point by when they just stopped caring? You end up with someone who probably would wear a mask if they knew that not doing so would make them get yelled at or make people think they’re a republican or something, but they feel that enough pressure is off of them socially and politically that they can pretend that this is all over, that it’s “too much work” or whatever, that the safety calculus has fundamentally changed (it hasn’t, and even then flu season is bad this year there’s still great reasons). They get VERY annoyed when their lack of masking gets brought up though because, how dare you, im one of the good ones (which of course absolves me of my behavior now)
Might expand this into a proper post
It's definitely liberalism and also yes it does seem like left wing beliefs no longer correlate to masking maybe because the issue has shifted to it only mattering to disabled people and a lot of people have that as a big blind spot for their version of leftism see Chapo trap house etc.
I've definitely observed in Philly that more and more people are wearing masks in public again since Thanksgiving tho certainly not a majority and not always correctly. I think everyone is still doing their own risk calculus in some manner it's just not the same calculus we're doing and might be wrong, but from their perspective they're still thinking about it, they just lack sufficient education or something.
I also wonder if there's a neurotype factor going on. Autistic people process the world "bottom up" starting with the trees before concluding it's a forest. Allistic people process the world "top down" starting with the forest before they notice any trees. Autistics are still looking at specific numbers and individual cases of people they know while allistics see that most people have stopped masking and the CDC has stopped requiring it so without looking at the data themselves they conclude it must be safe now.
There's also certainly an element of burnout. A lot of people have just gotten tired of caring and are saying "fuck it I don't care if I die or someone else dies I can't live like it's 2020 anymore"
All of these are great, relevant points (and reading them said by another person def makes me feel less like I’m losing my grip on sanity bc at least some others recognize how ridiculous this is). The one that I really want to highlight is the point about disability—one potentially relevant detail about my personal situation is that my paternal grandfather was disabled his whole life, requiring a cane to walk. Disability, for my family, was never this abstract thing that happened to someone else, it was something people around me were used to having adaptation for their entire lives.
For many other people though, most people even, I think they’re somehow under the warped perspective that they’re gonna be the one person who somehow dies without getting a single disability first—some sort of grand heart attack that melodramatically kills them all at once. That disability is coming for us all (and basically has always come for us all long enough term) is something people do not want to think about or adjust their behavior towards, partially out of a sense of a complete dehumanization of disability—disabled people are out of sight, and thus out of mind. Disability is something that happens to someone else.
A question I have is—why did this work with seatbelts but not with this, when it’s not exactly like everyone is a hard republicans antimasker, these are people who can make reasonable decisions in perhaps the context of a ballot box but are totally unable to elsewhere
Like, you don’t see people “burned out” from wearing seatbelts. You don’t commonly see a defense of no seatbelt wearing being “oh I was just going two blocks” or “well I know this road well” or “don’t cars have so many safety features that seatbelts are unnecessary?”
I think it "worked" for seatbelts because it was a law and it stayed a law and they enforced the law, and now there have been like three generations who grew up with that law being normal (in the US at least). Not many people still interested in fighting about it publicly, plus it's harder to see whether someone in a car is wearing a seatbelt than a mask.
