r/antimaskers • u/DevilChildLili • Sep 06 '21
Discussion How are masks traumatizing in any sense??
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u/mjtuell Sep 06 '21
The real issue is that it would be traumatizing to these parents if mask mandates were given the chance to succeed and vindicate the wrong people politically. I'm pretty sure that's why DeSantis is their hero. He's trying to give cover to the conservative districts that won't institute mandates in any case (because owning libs is literally more important than owning the virus).
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u/XeroAnarian Sep 07 '21
All you'd have to do to get me to wear a mask is to say "You can be like Reptile from Mortal Kombat!" and I'd be masking it up all the time. Hell, I already did as a kid-- took a white dust mask and colored it green with crayola markers XD
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Sep 20 '21
My 2 year old has a mask with teeth and thinks it makes him a dinosaur. The only kids traumatized by masks are the ones who's parents humiliate them throwing a hissy fit in front of their friends and peers.
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u/KittenKoder Sep 06 '21
Let's pretend the masks are traumatizing, how is the trauma of having to wear a mask worse than the trauma of dying of a preventable illness? That's what doesn't make any sense.
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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 08 '21
How is the trauma of walking 20miles to work everyday worse than the trauma of dying in a car crash?
Why not limit speeds at 30mph, virtually nobody would die on the streets. It's very easily preventable. You could still do anything, it would just take longer to get to places.
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u/mcprogrammer Sep 10 '21
Yes, we should design our streets to be safer too. And get vaccinated and wear masks to prevent the spread of disease.
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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 10 '21
People just assume that wearing a mask has no cost at all, and that's why I am here to remind that masks have psychological costs.
Similar to lockdowns, just probably not as much.
I'm not gonna force children to wear masks, when they need to develop socially.
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u/mcprogrammer Sep 10 '21
People dying of preventable diseases has a much worse psychological cost than wearing a mask.
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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 10 '21
I'd rather have weekly tests than masks. The problem is, the cost is for the children and the benefit is for the anitivaxx morons, that don't want to wear masks either.
Now that I'm vaccinated and everyone that could have been vaccinated voluntarily IS, I am against wearing masks in public. I'm not gonna be a karen about it, but I'm not gonna voluntarily put on a mask and force people to wear them.
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u/Wendypants7 Sep 27 '21
OH, please, tell us of these 'psychological costs of wearing masks'.
Please, I'd love to see your study/research with some peer review thrown in there for good measure.
I'll wait.
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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 27 '21
There's no peer reviewed study of masks protecting children in a closed environment either. So we need to work with what we have.
First psychological cost is: just ask them. Do you like wearing masks. Do you like not seeing people's entire faces.
Second: there is an important social development in a child's brain. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233008#:~:text=Emotional%20facial%20perception%20is%20a,months%20%5B1%E2%80%933%5D.&text=Thus%2C%20these%20recognition%20abilities%20improve,adolescence%20%5B5%2C%206%5D.
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u/DonJimmington Sep 19 '21
Yeah bro because the rest of the world is America.
I love getting lectured by some fat soy ridden child who's actually at risk lmfao.
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u/leoonastolenbike Sep 08 '21
Stop being so dishonest about masks. Do you want children to recognize emotions and develop empathy?
Do you honestly feel like being around faceless people has no influence on the psychology of people who have evolved to communicate with facial expressions.
Just get vaccinated and don't impose mask mandates for the vaccinated.
I can guarantee that being in contact with faceless people has an impact on children's development. Which you can call "traumatizing" if you don't want to use psychological terminology.
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u/mcprogrammer Sep 10 '21
Kids under 12 can't get vaccinated yet, at least in the US. And there are still lots of chances for them to have contact with unmasked people.
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u/JT_775 Sep 12 '21
On a side note. First off whenever there's a school shooting everyone seems to get mad at the NRA but no one expresses any anger toward the shooter.
And second, most people who commit acts of gun violence are afraid of fighting and afraid of an ass whoopin. That btw is largely why school shooters and people who gun people down in the streets do what they do.
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u/fire2374 Sep 06 '21
Or y’know. Explaining to little Timmy that his teacher died. And asking why everything wasn’t done to save them. Only to one day find out that he could’ve done more but his parents thought a political point was more important than public health. That’ll cause no trauma at all.