Fully vaccinated or not, many workers are still required to wear a mask in the workplace. We can do a small thing to signal our solidarity with other workers, even if they don’t recognize it.
I tried going without a mask at Costco today but felt crappy when I looked around and all the workers still are required to wear them. I felt better and more connected to my fellow workers once I put it back on.
I live in a fairly rural area in the south where hardly anyone is still wearing masks, even workers. I swear I've gotten death stares from lifted-truck, back the blue type white guy southerner CHUDS when wearing my mask the last few weeks, to the point where I almost feel like I should take it off, lest I be potentially confronted (I'm a non-passing trans woman, so add a x2 to that feeling) Idk maybe it's just my overall anxiety fucking with my head and making me paranoid, but it's to the point where I just don't know what to do. Maybe I'm just a pussy though.
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Yeah out in the rural mountain west you sacrifice significant social capital if you go anywhere in a mask and are under 80. People will absolutely think less of you or, bizarrely, will take personal offense. It's a calculus you gotta do