As you know, most of the population is wearing masks these days inside, and some even while just walking outside. I only wear one when absolutely necessary, like for some shops or medical centers that require you to wear one, and then I take it off as soon as possible. I don’t like the masks, not on myself, and not on other people either.
”Why do you care when someone else wears a masks, it’s not doing any harm to you!?”
Trust me, I’ve been asking the same question from myself. I have concluded that I have some sort of (irrational) fear of people in masks, especially men. It makes me almost shiver in disgust and show visible distain against the person. I am not great at looking people in the eyes to begin with, but now I avoid looking people at all. The masked people trigger a very strong response in me.
It’s not that I think people wearing masks are trying to conseil their identity because they are up to something evil, it’s something else. I wonder if my animal brain gets warning signals when someone covers half their face and their voice gets muffled. To me it seems like my fight or flight reflex turns on when I have to see someone with a mask up close and personal, and I can’t override it with logic. I become very agitated and irritated and try to go back outside as soon as I can.
The most irrational part of this is that for example someone covering their face with a motorcycle helmet does nothing bad to me, the opposite really. So I wonder what has wired my monkey brain to think that medical masks are the devils work and I need to get the fuck away from people who wear them.
