Such Aggressive Stupidity

[genxlib]

I have a mantra; you can be arrogant or you can be stupid but you can't me both. I can live with stupid people if they aren't so sure of themselves that they actively try to teach you their stupidity. I can also live with arrogant people if they have the goods to back it up.

What kills me about these fucking covid deniers is that they are not only stupid but that they feel the need to get in your face about it.

I was at a project site walkthrough with one of my clients today. Where the project adjoins some residential property, the owners came out to find out what was going on. We politely told them what was proposed. The only thing they cared about was "why are you wearing masks". At first the woman was trying to be polite saying that it wasn't necessary outdoors. We know that but sometimes we do just to make the public and each other feel better. But the man has to chime in and start ranting about no need for masks anywhere, it was always nonsense and overblown, yada yada with the typical bullshit.

Mind you, this particular project is behind schedule because the surveyor died from covid while we were waiting for him to get the field measurements made. His widow is currently shutting down his company and trying to put her life back together.

I wanted so badly to tell this guy what I thought but I figured that would be bad form in front of a client. Even if the client approved, it could go badly considering the jackass is a resident of the City where my client is employed.

Sucks to be professional sometimes when I just want to speak my mind.

Anyway, it just shocks me that these people feel the need to be so aggressive about their stupidity. Why do they care if we wear masks? Geez I am so done with these assholes.

[LonePirate]

1. Nobody ever complains when someone wears a ski mask or scarf over their face during cold winter days

Why are they so enraged by a mask on someone else which helps protect them?

[Diamond_Dog]

6. I know!

Like it hurts them in what way?

[Skittles]

2. some people just do not get it

they usually vote repuke, but not always

[leftieNanner]

3. I'm fully vaccinated and I still wear a mask

And I don't care what the stupid arrogant morons say!

Too bad you had to be polite.

[Skittles]

8. same

the goal was always to contain the virus, not to stop masking.....it's crazy how many people do not seem to understand this

[Harker]

14. About half the staff and customers at my hardware store

were masked, the other half not.

I smiled through my mask at the others wearing them.

[NJCher]

29. I wish I could come to your hardware store

The closest one to me is an old style hardware store run by a guy who always used to have Rush Limbaugh piped throughout the store. When I complained, he said, "I play all points of view." Not once did I ever hear anybody but Rush Limbaugh.

In our house, we refer to the place as Right Wing Hardware. Its real name is "Main Street Hardware."

I only use the place for emergencies, preferring to spend my hardware store dollars at another place on the other side of town.

I will hand it to him, though, he wore a mask throughout the pandemic.

[Harker]

41. First time I ever heard Limbaugh...

who was unknown to me, was in a Chicago area bookshop. The store owner was laughing at the offensive remarks, and I left, telling him it was a poor business decision to have an obnoxious blowhard on the radio.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. +1

[Ohioboy]

4. My response would be

It's a test to see who's minding their own business.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Oh, I love that, Ohioboy

+1000

[LuckyLib]

18. Great response. Another one would be "Why would our mask-wearing be a problem for you?"

[yonder]

20. winner!

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. This

[calimary]

35. SUPERB!

What a great response.

Gotta make sure to remember that one, just in case the need ever arises.

[abqtommy]

7. Good op. My thought is that ' arrogant', 'aggressive' and 'stupid' are three independent things

that often coincide. You handled it well.

[brush]

9. Sorry, I thought this post was about Majorie Taylor Greene...

the poster child for aggressive stupidity. Mask holes of course fit into this category too.

[genxlib]

12. She is definitely cut from the same cloth

She has just managed to find a bigger platform and is actually in a position to do some harm.

But in the end, she is just as aggressively idiotic as this asshat was.

[Bayard]

10. My personal response favorite,

"Its an intelligence test".

Talking to a friend of mine earlier. He was telling me about going to a client's place, where the manager is an in-your-face trumper, and rails at him because he wears a mask. Last week, he thought something was wrong with her because she was wearing a mask, and staying 20 ft away from him, not saying a word. He asked her what was wrong as he was heading back out. She said--I have to protect myself from vaccination molecules. I know you've been vaccinated, and I can't be around you because I might inhale those molecules.

He said, one of the few times he's been completely speechless.

[Skittles]

15. so he didn't wear a mask against the actual virus

but he is masking now because......vaccinated people may give it to him

[Grokenstein]

24. I think I have a solution!

1. Find a picture of God Emperor Donald on that day he wore a mask.
2. Print multiple wallet-size copies. Add text on back if you want to be fancy. Example: "Pass or Fail?"
3. Carry at all times; hand out to incelrectionists whenever challenged.

[KS Toronado]

31. That's a excellent idea, should leave 'em speechless.

[NJCher]

30. very funny story

I can believe it!

[Ocelot II]

11. The correct answer is something like:

"I'm wearing a mask because I want to. My reasons are none of your business."

[modrepub]

13. Keeping Your Mask On

and being on the down-low probably pissed them off more than any other response you could have made. Most of these folks just want to trigger a certain response. Not giving them the satisfaction is often the best course for all parties involved.

Keep your cool and piss the others off.

[hurple]

16. You should have

Lit up a cigarette and blew the smoke in their faces.. since they don't care about what they breathe in and all.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Go back an throw a brick through his window.

Just kidding. Kind of...

[aggiesal]

19. The first thing I would have told the woman, was to correct her statement ...

At first the woman was trying to be polite saying that it wasn't necessary outdoors

CDC guidelines are that masks are unnecessary outdoors, if you are FULLY vaccinated! People seem to forget that second part.
By the sounds of if, I'd be willing to bet neither has been vaccinated.

Second I would have told them is that we as people need food to survive. Without food we starve and would eventually die.
Covid need people to survive. The only way to starve covid is to use masks and get vaccinated.
If you do neither, Covid will find those people, because it need people to survive.
If we can't fully starve Covid, it will eventually find these people you were dealing with.

[captain queeg]

21. I got a video sent to me by a CT friend

I usually just read the synopsis and don’t bother watching, he sends some pretty crazy shit. Today’s was saying the the vaccines are designed to destroy your immunity to further Covid infections and they will introduce a new variety that will kill most of the people who have been vaccinated. I just don’t get these people that see worldwide conspiracies. I’m sure there are some things that are done that we don’t know about but I just don’t believe you could get people all over the world to work together to some nefarious end.

[Moostache]

39. Pick the more likely, sane scenario:

1) A multinational conspiracy was launched to deceive the population of the world into accepting a vaccine that was really a trojan-horse fake out that will render them susceptible to a SECOND, "real" virus that will kill them off.

2) A novel coronavirus broke into the population of China and became the worst pandemic in 100 years. Companies that had been working on mRNA vaccines were allowed to prioritize efforts to get vaccines made and delivered to SAVE lives and end the outbreak.

If you encounter anyone who says "1)", turn away and never engage that moron again.

[Warpy]

22. "Why are you wearing masks?"

Responses, most to least appropriate:

Because we think it's still a good idea.

Because the epidemic isn't over yet.

Because we like the way they look.

None of your business.

Because I can skip shaving/half the makeup and put the money toward a yacht.

Because IU just knocked over a bank and don't want to be recognized.

So idiots like you can't tell when I'm sticking my tongue out at you.

I can think of lots more, but you get the idea.

[Pluvious]

32. I will add...

"I'm worried I might be infected with Covid, and didn't want to risk spreading it."

[3catwoman3]

36. I like your last one!

[OMGWTF]

37. So I won't be mistaken for a MAGAt.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. You can't fix brainwashed, other directed stupid. They are emboldened to ratchet up the rhetoric.

[azureblue]

25. I got one of those

And I replied. "you watch Fox news, don't you?" Of course the answer was yes, and all I said after that was "it shows"

[uponit7771]

28. People stay away from useless assholes

[IronLionZion]

33. To dodge facial recognition software from tracking me on CCTV cameras

The cameras are always watching.

[Kota]

34. The same people who didn't want to be told what to do are now telling everybody else

what to do. I just tell them it's my body and my choice, sound familiar?

[lambchopp59]

38. Clucker Carlson

On his Fox Noise program actually encouraged the idiots to start harassing people wearing masks.
Ever since then we've had one hell of a time getting local RWNJ's to comply--- in the hospital!!!!
I can't be specific on social media-- but some have gotten physically combative about it.
In a convenience store one 'Duck Die Nasty" looking creep started in about my mask wear in the store.
As though it wasn't fairly obvious wearing my scrubs after work, I had to spell it out for him:
"I work at the hospital. If I'm seen in an enclosed public space without a mask I can say hello to my walking papers tomorrow".
"Oh".

[FailureToCommunicate]

40. I got yelled at a SECOND time that "Halloween is

OVER! Take off your mask!”
Second time in as many weeks.
Must be a FOX meme?