What would it take to get anti maskers to mask up?
What would it take to get anti maskers to mask up?
Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they're scared into masking
if covid made ya dick small
wow I'm never wearing a mask again
tbh I don't think even that would work, they would blame "woke" food additives or something in the water
chuds would 100% blame "the jab"
Visible grossness. Boils, hives, rashes, as a result of infection.
People really start to give a shit when that's a factor.
especially with conservatives prospensity to fear and disgust reactions
There's a tickborne disease that makes you allergic to red meat. Imagine if covid did that.
Actual punishment (including enforcement) for not masking or using a bogus mask, that's all it would take
My mother always said that if people bled from their eyes or had massive losses of weight it might work. Might.
I kind of see what she means, but I think they’d kill us all for the economy rather than shut down again.
My mom said if the first few waves had killed kids then maybe we’d have beaten it by now. Thing is that it did, and it continues to kill kids.
Speaking as a teacher, it wasn’t a surprise seeing our school board spent that first summer reviewing recommendations. Only to send kids back in the fall without any substantial changes. No real protections other than a chronically divorced SRO who’d only be at our building on Wednesdays and who had an office for some reason. That and about 100 books we had to remove from the library.
I don’t think things would much different if it killed the billionaire class’s children. You think Pharaoh gave a shit about Moses killing his kid?
massive losses of weight
gut feeling is this would only entice people
Bleeding from the all the orifices seems like a surer bet.
The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don't understand that asymptomatic spread means that they're contagious before they have symptoms, don't understand that even if their covid feels "very mild", they can still get long covid, etc. People don't correlate covid's effects with covid itself because it's not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.
Guns kill children at an increasing rate and ain't shit getting done for that
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State apparatus forcing them to mask
shut down their mouthpieces, take control of their social media, flood everything with actual scientific fact
would erase most of them, the final few die-hards can uh
die hard
:D
I think if covid gave you guaranteed dysentery/norovirus levels of shitting yourself for several days there would be a lot less anti maskers
Death alone won't work because these people refuse to believe they can die or suffer long term health consequences
Tell them AI powered cameras are selling their facial data directly to Putin
i want a reusable mask with replaceable filters but idk which ones work for viruses like covid. but i also worry how other people would react to me looking like a post apocalyptic raider, they freak out enough when i wear a paper or fabric mask. sometimes i kinda wish i lived somewhere with more gun control or a less toxic culture so that i could wear straps and pouches and stuff without people thinking i'm a terrorist, i'm just a dork that wants to dress like a futuristic ninja.
As others have mentioned, law enforcement might be the only solution, but it could just be added fuel for "the goverman wants to silence us." Also considering the fact that a non-trivial section of law enforcement officers are anti-maskers makes this even more difficult considering the fact that close contact with a cop is inevitable in America.
Anti-masking is just another symptom of the whole host of problems that plagues a scientifically illiterate USA.
It's more than just scientific illiteracy. It's just that Amerikkka's reactionaries are extremely (and selectively of course) liberal.
They might know it's the right thing to do, but to the Amerikkkan eyes, that is what makes it all the more fun to rebel against.
If Covid made you transition.
I would just tell chuds I'm masking up to hide from the deep state.
A lot of these people went out and committed crimes during the pandemic and would not wear masks, even when masks would have helped in evading recognition by security cameras and the police. Pettiness or personal inconvenience or a skewed cost benefit analysis may not be the real problem: they're polarized in a completely opposite direction from us, and at their worst, they actively seek to harm society and the people in it.
From what I have gathered in conversations over the years, during the next pandemic, if and when a biological threat emerges that is severe enough that we will actually have to mandate masks or vaccination or quarantine, that many will start shooting or committing other acts of stochastic terrorism, or interfere with public health in other malicious ways. I've heard enough threats amounting to the same already. A lot of them are far fucking gone, and only going to get worse.
A disease that causes direct and obvious harm to themselves if they don't mask.
Like mass shootings or other disasters, the rich and their families and children have to be affected. If they’re free from all consequences, there will be no policy.
Minor legal penalties. They are little babies.
Alberta fired their Premier over this, and replaced him with somebody who would waive the minor legal penalties.
lol sounds about right
Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it?
Just looking at the Wikipedia pages for each pandemic, the Spanish Flu is "generally accepted" to have killed 25 to 50 million people. The Wikipedia page for COVID-19 cites a 2022 The Economist article that estimates 18.2 to 33.5 million death toll for the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
The COVID-19 pandemic is the 5th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in human history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics#By_death_toll
Of course, the world population was probably less than a quarter of what it is now, so a higher percentage defintely died. Probably because of the relatively crappy health care at the time
China going anti-mask
Telling them that nobody can hear them say slurs if they wear a mask
The inevitable dustbowl when desertification hits its stride
Simple, fines and arrest. When you make things inconvenient and uncomfortable for a hog, they fall in line. Think about what makes people wear a seatbelt. Hogs don't think deeply, they just do what they feel. But if their choice becomes painful, they comply. Things like this that don't have any clear ideology and aren't exactly a huge inconvenience are easy to enforce. But if you have a clear identity and or project that has real material consequences and the state suppresses it, there will be a lot of resistance.
Honestly with how the backlash went I think the well has been poisoned for any future pandemics. I don't think people will take precautions unless it is something visibly disfiguring like leprosy or something.
don't the actual minutiae of how the spanish flu was handled give pretty good lessons on this? from what i remember people posting a few years ago, there were similar kinds of measures put in place by municipalities and similar kinds of responses.
Stitch some quartz crystals to the sides of N95s, add a drop of essential oil, and market the masks as protection from negative energy and airborne vaccines. Rewrite the instructions to be a magic ritual that requires full coverage of the mouth and nose to complete the seal against evil
50% of the US population dying of COVID might do it, but they also might blame it on 5G.
Pretty sure there was an article that was like "covid literally shrinks your balls" so i honestly dont think anything will
So to get them to mask up, you would have to restore their trust in public health institutions.
I don’t know. So much about the anti-mask / anti-vax stuff is so irrational, I have a hard time figuring it out.
For the US, you pretty much have to go all-in on calling Covid a Chinese bioweapon, and I'm not talking about speeches, but things like getting the military to wear masks in order to safeguard them from an alleged bioweapon. You need a lot of "top scientists and intelligence officers have proven without a shadow of a doubt Covid came from a Chinese lab as a bioweapon" and US representatives pontificating in the UN on how China needs to pay reparations for loss of life due to Covid. The atmosphere of the country needs to be that of already being at war with China with Covid being a massive Chinese biological attack. In this context, not wearing a mask means trafficking with the enemy that the US is at war with and thus, a sign of betrayal. And even with this, I don't think most GOP presidents could pull it off, let along a Democrat president. But Trump? Yeah, I think he could pull it off.
it could be an airborne and highly contagious fatal hyperherpes that causes your penis to literally burst into flame before killing you and most of the right would still not mask up
spit in their mouths
A staple gun
Make them believe that the woke commies don't want them to mask, because long COVID weakens the vigor of Amerika.
: "THE SJW moral[slurs] used reverse psychology on us to help spread China's bioweapon, because they knew damn well we don't let anyone tell us what to do!"
Nothing. They only have their identity. To give that up would be a death just as real as respiratory failure.
The thing that boggles my mind is a conservative favorite was Alex Jones. They all listened to him. He said the gover.ent wousl.make a plague to wipe the people out. They could have been about that life if they wanted. The death drive is strong in these people
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was already at Spanish flu levels. There is nothing that will make people do it.
Anti maskers were a thing during the Spanish flu, unfun fact
maybe if pastors started saying it would protect you from the evil of the great satan (biden) and you need it to be raptured
I wouldn't be as concerned if the mask was more to protect yourself than others.
Unfortunately anti maskers don't care about anyone but themselves so... It doesnt matter how many people die they won't change.
Now if COVID caused dicks to get smaller and the individuals not wearing masks to f' themselves up. Then and only then we would see them masking up.
