The left keeps saying we shouldn’t politicize the coronavirus, while they politicize the crap out of it. One of their biggest fronts is demanding people wear masks despite the scientific fact that mask make no damn difference in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Yahoo! News is running with this garbage and okaying the dangerous act of yelling in people’s faces if they don’t wear a mask. Somehow the coronavirus doesn’t effect minorities because Yahoo! gives them a carve-out for not wearing a mask.
Here’s a thing that will get countless liberals beaten to shit:
It’s Okay To Yell At Strangers Who Don’t Wear Masks
It really isn’t, but whatever.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans say they wear masks in public. Unfortunately, that still leaves a substantial portion of potential COVID-19 carriers unmasked. Coming across anyone flouting public health recommendations and putting you, your family, and your community at risk triggers a number of thoughts and feelings. Depending on the situation, your annoyance could range from a mild simmer to an all-out rolling boil. So, what do you do?
First off, your indignation at that Target shopper in front of you in line without so much as a handkerchief around their neck is warranted. Wearing a mask is crucial. The medical community, including White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said in as many ways as possible that Americans who aren’t wearing face masks are increasing the risk of spreading the coronavirus. Even asymptomatic carriers of the virus may be spreading the disease. It’s absolutely reckless to expose the elderly and other at-risk groups to airborne coronavirus — the reason for social distancing and wearing face masks in the first place.
Dr. Fauci has literally been wrong about everything, so if he says “wear a mask” that means don’t wear a mask.
In any case, Yahoo! has come up with levels on refusing to wear as a mask and here is what they are recommending:
Stage 1: Minor Annoyance
When your anger is at this level, your best option in most scenarios is to let it go. As long as they’re not willfully putting anyone else in danger, and as annoying as it may be to have to walk away, your gut is telling you this is not worth a fight. Listen to your gut.
Stage 2: Pretty Annoyed
You’re ticked off, your anger heightened by a justifiable fear for your family and community. Still, the risk of getting COVID-19 from this person is unlikely — and getting close enough to exchange words is a surefire way you can increase your chances of exposure. Get away, if possible.
Stage 3: A Growing Anger
This is the level where not saying something bears a greater risk than saying something — say, at a kid’s birthday party. Obviously, knowing the person not wearing a face mask, or knowing someone there who does, makes engaging them far less fraught, but it should still be done considerately.
Initiate any conversation with someone not wearing a face mask as just that — a conversation. Instead of instructing them to wear a face mask or else, get curious.
Stage 4: Are You Effing Kidding Me?!?
This is when you’re really pissed — you’ve got to say something.
Stage 5: Go F*&# Yourself!
Here, the person seems to willfully be endangering those around them, your anger is appropriately ballistic. Just as you’d scream at a driver doing 100 MPH in a school zone, you’re going to scream at the person not wearing a face mask when you’re standing in line because you’re in line with your kids and elderly people.
If you’ve tried the softer approach and hit a wall of willful ignorance or downright anger, get help. If you’re in a store, inform customer service — the on-site manager or another employee should enforce the business’s rules a la “no shirt, no shoes, no service.” As much legal right as the person may have outside the store to flout mask-wearing, inside it’s the store’s right to refuse them.
If a person is blatantly putting others at risk, you’ve tried the above tactics, and you’re not in a business setting, and want to get a message across, go for it. Let loose a salvo of swear words. Sometimes, you just need to yell.
And while Yahoo! wants you to put yourself in a situation where a stranger, minding his or her own businesses, will probably punch you in the f*cking face, they do have one exemption:
But understanding a situation is important. Some people might not be wearing their mask, letting it dangle around the neck for a minute because they were hot or uncomfortable. Some people may have simply spaced out on wearing a mask outside of their home because, honestly, mask-wearing is not yet second nature. Other people, particularly minorities, might not be wearing a mask of any sort in certain areas because covering their faces could be more dangerous than catching COVID-19.
It’s dangerous for white people to not wear a mask and dangerous for black people to wear a mask. Interesting.
There you have it: scream at white people for not wearing masks and respect minorities for their courage to not wear a mask.
This terrible advise seems to rely on the flawed assumption that minorities are less likely to knock the shit out of you for being a busybody asshole. I suspect that some ambulance-chancing law firm will initiate a class action lawsuit against Yahoo! for causing an untold number of black eyes and fat lips.
