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9. Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking--to Protect Themselves From the Vaccinated
Thu May 13, 2021, 11:39 PM
May 2021



...The conspiracy—which comes in several shapes and sizes—more or less says the vaccinated will “shed” certain proteins onto the unvaccinated who will then suffer adverse effects. The main worry is the “shedding” will cause irregular menstruation, infertility, and miscarriages. The entirely baseless idea is a key cog in a larger conspiracy that COVID-19 was a ploy to depopulate the world, and the vaccine is what will cull the masses...

Anti-vax influencers are instructing their fellow anti-vaxxers as well as anti-maskers (at this point the two communities overlap to a huge degree) that one of the best ways to defend themselves from this blight is to co-opt…social distancing, the very strategy they have long decried....

It’s not just social distancing that anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers are begrudgingly accepting. Some conspiracy theorists are wondering if perhaps their longtime bane, the mask, could become their salvation. One perplexed poster on the fringe site 4chan asked their fellow anons if they should “wear a mask around the vaccinated, because they shed the mRNA stuff?”

“I am going to be watching these vaccine shedding stories like a hawk,” wrote another man on Twitter. “Is my family going to need to wear masks to protect ourselves from the vaccinated?”


https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nnwg/anti-maskers-ready-to-start-maskingto-protect-themselves-from-the-vaccinated

I am masking for a while WA-03 Democrat May 2021 #1
I got the J&J several weeks ago. StarryNite May 2021 #2
I am gun shy WA-03 Democrat May 2021 #3
I'm with you! StarryNite May 2021 #4
They'll probably be more aggressive to people who choose to wear a mask. :( tanyev May 2021 #5
Physical aggression would be a very bad idea. roamer65 May 2021 #6
The rumor among anti-vaxxers is that getting the vaccine makes us more likely to get them sick relayerbob May 2021 #7
No. I think they will be happy fescuerescue May 2021 #8
It's political to a large number of anti maskers. StarryNite May 2021 #13
From what I've read on DU today it is as political for many who wear masks. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #14
It's not political for a lot of people who will continue to mask up. StarryNite May 2021 #17
Of course you can continue to wear a mask with no criticism from me. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #18
Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking--to Protect Themselves From the Vaccinated mia May 2021 #9
I totally expect these maskholes to become better people.......or not. Nevilledog May 2021 #10
Some of them might start wearing masks out of spite to own the libs IronLionZion May 2021 #11
Just a great day, the science finally won and Repugs lost their last complaint. Jon King May 2021 #12
Yep. Science always wins in the end. Because facts matter. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #16
They still have their red MAGA hats on though. BigmanPigman May 2021 #15
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