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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Was there actually news indicating that preppers, as a group, were more likely to be against masking than for it?

I wouldn't be too surprised, but I haven't actually seen any evidence to this effect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So if a zombie outbreak occurred these people would fuck us even worse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

As Weird Al sang in Tacky, "if I get bit by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Pretty much, just a power fantasy disguised as being prepared

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hair cuts of all things made people lose their god damn minds. That was wild

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whereas I hate getting my hair cut and I will just shave it all off when it gets too long.

Actually, I can't think of anything during COVID I actually found to be a huge imposition other than wearing a mask at work got hot after a while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I felt bad for enjoying it. Worked from home, hardly expected to go out, much less traffic. Most service related jobs I prefer to do myself (like haircuts like you mentioned) or am perfectly fine with minimal contact. In general I feel bad for service workers so even if they aren't friendly with me (not that I ever really experienced that much) I wouldn't mind, and also don't mind self checkout and automation.

I may sound like I'm accusing others, and maybe that's part of it, but the way service workers are expected to act certain ways with us feels like trying to perpetuate class based servitude. As long as they're relatively professional and not outright insulting, I think it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always try my hardest to look a service worker in the eye at least once during our transaction. Just an unconscious way to let them know I see them as an equal, not as a servant. I realize that's not making a major change in the world, but I figure they don't get that much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

That definitely helps from anecdotal information I was told, and I do the same. One of my younger sisters worked at a sorta prominent restaurant in Atlanta, and she complained that some of the high end clientele refused to look her in the eye. Sometimes she found it so insulting she'd act like she didn't realize they were talking to her until they made eye contact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

On a deeper level I think it's mostly a framework of acceptability some people have built around being antisocial and afraid of everything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Prepper" and "prepping" sounds like kink terms...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Prepping is just a normal gay/anal sex term, no kink necessary

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's funny is that antimaskers still blat on about how they won't wear a face diaper for anything or anyone, two years after such requirements ended. These people just need negative attention like tantruming toddlers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

And then some of the same people will wear actual diapers in public while holding signs proclaiming that "real men wear diapers". Can't make that shit up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

You lost them at considerate.

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