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Canadasceptic's avatar

Oh how I have tried to be "tolerant" and assume a live and let live attitude towards the face diapered, but I cannot. I have had a visceral reaction to masked people from the very beginning and I can't get over it. Mask wearing is a form of compelled speech and I'm just not somebody who copes well with being told what to say or do. By early May of 2020, before mask mandates were even in place, I fled Toronto to what was our country home and never came back. We sold our place in the city that fall and I have managed not to kick any maskers by virtue of living in the country.

I wore a mask for maybe 20 minutes in total during the entire scamdemic -- because I can't deal with not breathing and they make me panic, and because I refuse to play along with the delusion that face coverings stop anything other than normal human interaction. It wasn't easy and I rarely entered into any shops for almost two years. There were a few that were either tolerant or that I knew were against the agenda.

While the mask wearing has increased a bit where I live, it's no more than 20%. From what I hear, the percentage in the cities is more like 80%. I hate being back in Toronto and find myself wanting to yell at people incessantly! I haven't kicked anyone, but my stink eye has been honed to perfection. I just keep telling myself that so long as enough sheep keep masking up voluntarily there won't be a need to bring back the dreaded mandates.

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Ivan Iriarte's avatar

I can relate to this article, because I feel exactly the same. I have never been intolerant of people who think differently from me, but in this case, I also feel that people wearing masks show the ultimate stupidity, and I contain myself to not kick them. First time in my life that I walk out on the street feeling like this.

What bothers me most is that still a lot of people - even medical doctors (I don't get tired of saying this is incomprehensible) - still believe that wearing a mask is "the right thing to do". Good grief!!

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