“I’m getting a little touchy over the mask hate because people are being targeted and threatened for wearing them.”
All I see is the opposite: people like myself, who don’t want to wear a mask are the victims here. We are the ones being threatened.
We get dirty looks, are barred from entering places - we get lectured by bureaucrats and LE - we are even called killers by all sorts of Karens and chicken littles who suddenly think obeying the the state is the highest virtue.
These good little social distancers of 2020 remind me of the loyalists of the 1770’s. They hated the patriots who dared to fight for freedom. Many ran off to Canada and I hope the masks wearers of today follow them there.
I’m sorry, but I know who is a Democrat and who is a Republican in my small PA town - and I can tell you, the Democrats were the first ones to put the masks on, and they will be the last to take them off.
This is all a political ruse - every Democrat wants to exaggerate this virus as much as possible right up to the election in November. They are hoping the economy looks bad so Trump loses. Then the day after the election, the masks will come off - both literally and figuratively.
It has been the opposite here. Almost all of the people wearing masks here have been elderly. Most people here are Conservative and they are the ones that are threatening people. Nobody is threatening people not wearing them. It’s all directed at the elderly or people like me, with a medical condition that could be deadly with any respiratory virus. I wear one every flu season. I’m not wearing it only because of COVID. I don’t care if people wear them or not and most of us don’t. I’m not taking off a mask that I wear EVERY FLU SEASON just because some people don’t like it.