Wear a Mask

COVID isn't over, and neither are we.

Thumbnail by Uma Snow
Edited by Danae O.
Epic voiceovers of TikTok comment section by Danae O.

Follow jaydocovid on TikTok (sorry for calling him Jay Dot Covid) as well as crutches_and_spice

00:00 Introduction
04:14 The Capitalist D-word Committee
14:49 CDC "guidance"
22:44 Community prevention

[buttercupghost]

"Do people with peanut allergies make people around them not eat peanuts?" ....Yes? Some of them do if the allergies are severe enough? Because it can literally kill them?

[SteveTheBookGuy]

My wife has had 8 brain surgeries, we have been on a "soft" lockdown down for 4 years. I was fired from my job, I've lost friends and family. My wife is still safe, and she's never had Covid, this has irrevocably changed my life.

[ValkyrissaGaming]

It was a “funny coincidence” that most anti-covid measures ended when inflation threatened economies lol

[cryptkeeper]

This video and reading everyone's comments almost made me cry. I am disabled and have been immunocompromised my whole life, the pain and isolation I have felt being thrown to the wolves by pretty much everyone I know is almost as traumatizing as my fear of the disease itself. We are all in this together and y'all make me feel a little more optimistic about humanity. Thank you

[siobhanhogan]

Someone put it bluntly to me once, "Seniors don't pay taxes. Sick people cost everyone money. What's the point in investing in them?".
As i enter into the Healthcare profession as someone who grew up with a chronic illness, I've been so heartbroken by the realities (and I'm in Canada). I'm afraid for my future. Ableism is ingrained into so many different cultures around the globe. Health should not be a political issue, and yet it's politicians who decide the outcomes of public healthcare systems.
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS! I can't even get my professors or collogues to discuss these issues. It's very "hush-hush". It's shameful, and the rationale is "you can't break the publics trust" ....

[rudetuesday]

My aunt's moved to assisted living, due to dementia. She contracted Covid, after having made it all the way to now without getting ill, and is now relearning how to walk. The levels of worry are indescribable.

[Patchouliprince]

I’ve been masking for four years now and people make me feel like I’m crazy or being mean for doing it 😭 I’ve lost my entire social life because people in my life chose to not be Covid safe instead of being around me so I’ve been extremely lonely the past several years. I have long Covid and it’s really messed me up, it’s better than some cases ofc but it’s been really unpleasant at best, and at worst really set back my mental and physical health. All the time I go in a loop with myself trying to convince myself I’m the problem because I’m the minority because everyone else around me has decided Covid is over I must be crazy or something to be the only person around who seems to take precautions and it’s so stressful and exhausting

[annr]

The "you do you" people are the first one to get upset at you for wearing a mask or refusing to hang out in indoor settings.

[ericcarabetta]

We live in such a sheltered and privileged country, that for (most) conservatives and Boomers, being asked to wear a mask while in confined public spaces during a global pandemic, was the most traumatic experience they’ve ever had to endure, and have never “suffered” as much as during those few months. Not people dying, not people losing their livelihood, not people becoming permanently disabled, not the revelation that our economic system is hanging on by a thread, not the massive wealth transfer of trillions of dollars to the top 0.01%. Nope. The mere request that they be considerate of other people for two minutes was the straw that broke the camel’s back and just a step too far.

[emilythefairy]

It's all about following the money. I work in healthcare, the system wants us sick and to profit off it.

[stardustandsarcasm]

Not sure if people outside of the UK heard about this but recently the PM Rishi Sunak announced a new law which gives police the power to arrest people wearing face coverings at protests and demonstrations. The justification they gave for this was that people wearing masks at protests are likely doing so to "conceal their identity in order to threaten others". They said that passing this law was a way to "protect public safety"... my country is falling apart in front of my eyes, the government is slipping further and further to the far right of the political spectrum, and now they are warping narratives around masking to try to prevent the most at risk in society from making their voices heard.

[DrAnarchy]

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I’ve been suffering from long COVID debilitating cough and a large reason why is because people where I live refuse to continue masking. I never stopped because I care not just about my health but the health of others!

[andreabueno]

I lost my father to COVID19 during December of 2021. We saw him slowly deteriorate through the months before he ended up dying alone in the hospital with a tube down his throat just so he could breathe.
Having to come back to school with people asking how my winterbreak was and later that day have a kid exclaim how "nobody cares about COVID, it's over already."
It was hard not to break down and even now I still have classmates and teachers talk about how pointless all the mandates were.
I wish people listened more, maybe i would still have my dad.

[qiae]

It is deeply infuriating how easily immunocompromised people were written off as "not worth the effort" for even stuff as basic as wearing a bloody mask. Also absolutely wild how many people wear masks with their nose out. Thank you for talking about this, as a Canadian, we tend to get stuck with a lot of governmental policy basically being "well, they did it in the states".

[milkteamachine]

What really bothers me is that people won’t even mask up anymore when they’re clearly sick. Just open mouth coughing all over the train or in the store like a toddler. I’m very sensitive to respiratory infections and I’ve just been really sick every few weeks now after being fine for years. It’s really discouraging.

[angelnumbing]

thank u, nearly impossible to find anyone on youtube with any following saying a single thing about this

[solarmoth]

The most significant culture shock I had when moving to a different country was that most people still at least were surgical masks often but definitely when sick and that updated covid vaccinations are given in school. Doctors wear surgical masks. Air purifiers aren’t uncommon to see either in public spaces. The US made this so unnecessarily complicated. I got lax with masking at one point and caught COVID and I never want it again. I had long COVID which has mostly resolved but who knows what the effects will be in then ten to twenty years. The US is too complacent with death and disease in pursuit of profit.

[that_tvhead]

damn i got propaganda'd ig
i'm glad i know this now

[Acuriouscase]

The tiktok you showed is particularly interesting to me. I live in a third world country, and even here doctors are still seen wearing masks. This keeps both, the staff and the patients safe. It's really strange to me how doctors are refusing to wear masks in the US.

[buttercupghost]

It drives me crazy that my second mom is so resistant to masking and testing. She actually gave my first mom COVID when she came to visit without testing when she was sick, and last time she was here she *coughed in my face.* On accident, sure, but she didn't even try to cover her cough. 😑