You don’t need to explain yourself here. Your desire to protect your husband is a very loving act that I deeply respect. Everyone has a unique combination of health factors, comfort and concern levels, and even obedience level.
My main complaint about others wearing masks is a selfish one in that I can no longer enjoy the facial expressions and smiles of people we pass. The eyes speak a bit, but not enough. I really miss the brief, pleasant, wordless social interactions that come from seeing each others’ full facial expressions as strangers pass by each other. I think that’s part of what the authorities want in order to induce a feeling of isolation, fear, despair and disconnect from each other.
I just hope that the current sunder doesn’t evolve in the long-term into a more general lack of concern for our fellow man.
The eyes speak a bit, but not enough. I really miss the brief, pleasant, wordless social interactions that come from seeing each others’ full facial expressions as strangers pass by each other. I think that’s part of what the authorities want in order to induce a feeling of isolation, fear, despair and disconnect from each other.
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I passed two little girls waiting for their mother and they looked at me warily, with big puppy eyes as I was a masked stranger looking at them - they couldn’t gauge my mood/intention.
I smiled as I passed them and the wary expression of their eyes seemed additionally concerned - I forgot I had a mask on and they couldn’t see the smile, but my face muscles flexed so they probably thought i was paying attention to them ‘somehow.’ But then again maybe they replied with tiny little shy smiles under those masks which I couldn’t read and therefore didn’t acknowledge.
I understand about the masks. To me they dehumanize people because of the reasons you stated. I try really hard to use my eyes but humans use their entire faces to express themselves so it falls short. I don’t like them but I am more used to them I guess since I was ordered by my doctor to wear one during flu season. I was doing them before COVID was cool. I understand that COVID is a real thing but also how it has been manipulated for political purposes. I hate how masks have been politicized to the point that people are becoming mean no matter what you do. Nobody in here has mistreated me because I wear one. Implications have been made about me being one of the “sheep” but that has never been the case for me. Most people locally have been very nice. I have run up on a few that smirk and get in my face just because. I have read posts from people in FR that say they do the same thing in public. That irritates me. I have to wonder if they are really that callus or if they don’t understand the implications of what they might cause if they do it to a vulnerable person.
Thanks for understanding!