But, they sound entitled. There is no reason that the general public has to make unusual accommodations for their condition. It’s up to them to restrict their activities and provide protective gear as their situation requires.
Like many others, I’m a cancer survivor too. I’m not expecting special treatment or sympathy.
Your reply would be more on-target if they'd asked everyone else to wear a mask around them because of their medical condition, but nowhere did they make nor imply that request.
got attacked as a
fool with no care whatshoever for the public health
I don't but I don't think anything less of people who do. I'm probably kookier than they are in most ways. ;)
We have zero clue about their life and the decisions made to get to this point where they’re deciding to wear a mask. Maybe they have auto immune issues, or maybe they just want to.
It doesn’t hurt me in any way. Why should I care if they wear a mask or not? And if someone feels better if I wear one, it’s really no skin off of my back.
I generally don’t wear a mask anymore, but I have zero issues with those that do. And I respect them for holding to their own in a time where people are judging them as kooks.
Also, do you really care about what other people want you to do?
Masks are still very much a thing for a LOT of people in the midwest. In the past 2 weeks we've had at last 7 family members (my 69 year old mother, some of my wife's siblings and their children) diagnosed with covid. One of my sisters-in-law works in a nursing home and they currently have 17 cases of covid between staff and residents.
It’s those two variants that are becoming the dominant strains in the US.
Just do this small irrelevant thing and move on with you life, caring a bit about others doesn't really take much effort. I reserve my desire to rebel for actual tyranny.