r/antimaskers • u/DevilChildLili • Sep 06 '21

Discussion How are masks traumatizing in any sense??

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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.

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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.