the cognitive dissonance of 'covid is over' and 'all my friends have covid' is strange enough.
but the reaction to masks of either "are you sick" or "you don't have to wear that" (increasingly also, "you aren't allowed to wear that"...).
In the words of Chidi, "this broke me."
if ever you needed more proof that psychological avoidance is the most important thing. if you needed proof that negative stimulus will make the receiver blame and distrust the source. an invisible threat completely glitches human thought process, we can't.
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