I hate the chuds who don't care, but I am getting pretty sick of the libs who post ig stories telling people to mask up, then the next day they post a story at a house party with 15 of their "closest" friends
To me chuds who don’t care are more annoying, they have a sense of idiotic smugness where they think it makes them badass rebels or something
The people who pretend to care but flaunt the rules privately are annoying too, but at least they’ll usually wear a mask when out in public
Yeah was gonna say, the CHUD blatantly do dangerous shit.
The libs seem to just half ass it, which is better than actively doing the opposite.
its the chuds because sometimes the way they handle not caring about masks is by coughing into people's faces / storming stores without masks to make a point / try to physically harm people/ do legit crazy behavior that puts everyone in more danger than just a lib who lies about mask wearing and hangs out with their friends
Yea there’s a difference between not caring and pushing back on protocols.
Not caring is having friends over and not wearing masks. Everyone being there made a choice to not care.
Someone who goes to the grocery store and shoots an employee because they were asked to put on a mask is someone who cares a lot.
Thankfully I have not encountered anyone sneezing in my face to own the libs yet but yeah that sounds like hell
The honest ones are worse, no question. They're out every weekend while your pretenders might go to a social event here or there, and guess which events take even basic covid precautions. The folks pretending are bad, too, but (1) you can sometimes shame them into doing/supporting the right thing, (2) occasionally they'll do good stuff out of habit, (3) sometimes partial compliance has value even if it's not ideal, and (4) they're not going to spearhead dangerous stuff like anti-mask rallies.
It's also worthwhile to dig into what "pretend" means in this context. Much like how anti-abortion folks are surprisingly good at justifying their abortion, I think a lot of people take covid seriously when it comes to other people's behavior, but their get together is viewed as justified. So it's not exactly pretending, at least not in all cases. Most "pretending" people probably don't secretly think covid precautions are bullshit -- they think they're good, but they're also willing to prioritize their own interests, at least some of the time.
I hate the phrase virtue signaling so I won't say its that, it sounds like what you are getting at is "Magical Thinking" or cognitive dissonance. I know this one older acquantiance who threw a suprise birthday party for her relative. The relative died of covid but they have "no idea" how she got it. Another person has "no idea" how he got it cause he "only" hung out with a few close friends and wore a mask when he went grocery shopping every week. Its always "That can't happen to me"
Honestly just seems like we're chastising libs for not being perfect in the middle of a pandemic. I haven't been out to a gathering larger than like 5 people but, like, shit happens. Chuds are literally out there partying harder than before just to rub it to the libs. My piece of shit bigot upstairs neighbors are literally inviting their entire friends and family to their home when they'd done nothing of the sort before.
I hate them both in their own special way. Real centrist hours.
It all depends on how much they go out/spread it. I don't care if grandpa reposts the 40th "masks are diapers for the mouth" facebook memes if they don't actually go out and spread that shit. Obviously I'd prefer them to just shut up but that isn't worse than actually going and eating out everyday and constantly doing gatherings with different people
How do you have 15 close friends who are all friends with each other? I once threw a party where I invited damn near everyone I knew on a first name basis and I think we maxed out at 20 and that was with some people bringing their SOs I didn’t really know.
I am not speaking for them but its large like-minded college social groups
