All relevant medical weigh-ins state masks work. So, even though you may not be aware of it, maybe it was peer pressure or forgetting all the research. I would even argue perhaps when you got Covid, you got brain fog. Nothing about wearing a mask has to do with fear. It is being educated and caring that you may get it and give it to someone who may then die. The more educated people are, I contend, the more likely they are to see the societal value in wearing a mask. But as you point out, it is everyone’s choice.
I had to scroll up and read your original reply, because I thought it said everyone has a choice and it is their choice. (Just like everyone should have a choice in abortion). With my brain injury, I do not always immediately understand what is trying to be communicated to me. This is what you said: “Whoever wants to wear a mask can do so, and has no reason to feel uncomfortable about it. We all recognize that each of us has a choice to mask or not.” My friend did not recognize I had a choice. My friend has been hounding me (this is about the 5th time we have had this conversation, this me sending him a plethora of medical journal articles about Covid). I would not call him saying I live in fear to be accepting I have a choice.
Yes, “people are exercising their choice, whether we like it or not,” but my friend does not like it and keeps hounding me.
If Covid did not exist, I still would be staying at home. Whether I have a concussion (now post concussion syndrome), whiplash, a traumatic brain injury or severe PTSD and depression, or nothing at all, there are reasons I have spent a month at a time not leaving my house. This guy knows that. He knows I had suicidal ideations from the chronic, unrelenting pain. He knows I have severe memory problems. He knows a lot of things I have gone through. Too many to mention. If Covid never existed, I may not be wearing a mask, but I would be staying at home. It is my health (physical and mental), that made my mantra be “I feel so broken.” That is why in almost every communication he tells me how smart I am. He is reassuring me, when I am only half the woman I was, before my accident.
For him to know how I am, mentally and physically, but keep after me to go out, when my speech therapist, PTSD therapist and pain psychologist have not encouraged me to go out at any time. This just says the professionals I work with (which includes 6 more professionals than what I just listed) all agree me staying indoors, away from people, is what works well for me.
So there’s extra information about reasons he should not be telling me to get out and live my life. I am fine staying at home, with my light sensitivity, my over 24 hour headaches and my PTSD aversion to going anywhere in my car. (I have not driven in over a year)
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