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uhsguy  ·  1371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 24, 2020

I didn’t mean to imply it’s Republicans or men. Plenty of women are not doing masks and plenty of democratic voters aren’t doing them either (though I’d argue that people voting for Joe Biden in the primary aren’t exactly liberals). I find that In my in my area it’s mostly older people 50+ that don’t want to wear them and a few young invincibles.

I just saw a post from the toxic waste pool that is next door where a 30yo Karen was screaming about masks and people had to remind here that we aren’t her friends. Clearly she wouldn’t fit the conservative male stereotype.

Some of it probably is just people out for a walk who didn’t plan or remember but you can’t exactly give them 50cent masks with a 2.50$ coffee.

Still my point is that while non mask wearing is not limited to conservatives that group isn’t big into masks in general and they see masks as an infringement on civil rights. That group is also in general pro police. If police start enforcing mask laws these people will also see the police as an oppressive force and join in on the police reform bandwagon which is not something that police unions want.