I’ve had to wear a mask for allergies since WAY BEFORE the whole mask thing became identity politics. There’s plenty of flavors of grass, that no amount of Flonase or whatever that gets the straight up burning of the inside of my neck to stop. So. I’ve had to wear masks since as long as I can remember for pretty much every summer.

Then COVID happened and now what used to be something literally nobody cared about, suddenly everyone has fucking opinions about masks. So here’s my thing. How about we all just go back to everyone leaving me and everyone else who have been wearing masks most their lives the fuck alone about their mask? Can we do that?

Y’all can fight about COVID or whatever fucking shit, I don’t care. I didn’t really want to have a dog in this race. But yes, some people still wear masks. And the reasons they wear masks can vary for all kinds of reasons. And believe it or not, before 2020, nobody gave two shits about people wearing masks. I know, I was there.

I worked at an Arby’s in the late 1980s wearing a mask during the summer, nobody cared. I’ve worked in warehousing while doing college, nobody cared at the warehouse nor the college. I swear, and I have lived in middle of nowhere Tennessee most of my life and people I went to high school with (way back in dinosaur days) knew me and knew I wore a mask. And even still, today, they might run into me and be like “Oh I thought COVID was over… (snicker, snicker)” And yeah it gets fucking old having to remind them about my allergies and them going “OOOOOHH YEAH!” Like I know we’re getting old, but we ain’t that old.

So I get it, some of y’all just want a fight and apparently “masks” are one of the things on the field. Whatever. But, some of us out here wear masks because the grass is the devil. And gosh, it’s weird thinking that wearing a mask between 1970 and 2020 was the glory days, but fuck, here we are.

All I’m asking is the whole:

wow, people still wear masks?

If you want to bitch, can you at least add “for COVID” at the end? And let us that have shitty immune systems the fuck alone? Can you at least not yank us allergy sufferers in this bullshit? I would greatly appreciate that.

I don’t know why there was a mandate, I don’t know why the mandates made people angry. No one consulted me about any of it and even if they did, I’m not smart enough to have opinions on it anyway. But I don’t know why me putting a piece of cloth over my mouth so that evil grass seed doesn’t get inside my throat has anything to do with that bullshit. Here’s the US House and the US Senate I guess go get them or something. I don’t know, but everyone wearing a mask isn’t some evil liberal employed by Soros, or at least I’m not getting my fucking check.

TL;DR — Some of us wear masks for a lot of other reasons and no one used to give a shit about us wearing masks.

You can wear masks any time you are sick to avoid spreading it. It’s not just about COVID.