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Hot take: Deep down, anti-maskers feel so guilty about not masking that they want everyone to stop

We could go back into the archives and pull up videos of literal mobs forming in grocery stores around a person who wasn’t wearing a mask, or videos of women being stalked around a craft store threateningly because they weren’t wearing a mask. Things got ugly.

Novelist Celeste Ng has seen a few pieces arguing against masking and she has a theory: People deep down inside feel so guilty about not wearing a mask they want everybody to stop wearing a mask so they don’t feel as guilty.

The replies are pretty incredible — they’re about 50/50, with half posting “bullseye” emoji or tweeting “that’s exactly right.” It takes some serious projection to assume that someone else feels guilt deep down about not wearing a mask. And then there are the handful who say they’re never going to stop masking — they haven’t caught so much as a cold and aren’t about to.

So what about the people who assume non-maskers secretly feel guilty — what assumptions could we make about them and their continued reliance on masks coming up on 2023?

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