![]() That takes a toll on us emotionally, and we’re constantly coping with it. For the past four months, we’ve dealt with an entirely new reality wrapped around a deadly threat that we still don’t fully comprehend. To fully understand these freakouts and the reactions they inspire means understanding the emotional state we - regardless of political affiliation - are all in. Why people love these mask freakout videos A vendor wearing a mask and face shield at Trump’s June 2020 rally in Tulsa. And according to health and behavior experts, changing someone’s mind about masks is much more difficult than embarrassing them on candid camera. It turns out, as satisfying as it is to watch someone reprimanded for bad behavior, the videos themselves might not be an effective tool to change attitudes toward public health. Instead, there seem to be new ones posted every day. The videos would have stopped after the first berserker got famous. “I know there are bigger problems in the nation right now but more and more it seems the people who are just trying to stand up for the right things are getting bulldozed by bullies.”īut if the meltdown content’s pro-mask agenda was effective, you’d think there’d be less and less of this behavior and less and less footage of it as time went on. ![]() Look out for one another like patrons who took this video and asked if I was okay,” Ally Goodbaum, a videographer who captured the “maskless Karen” who began coughing on her, wrote on Facebook in June. “I share this to say please choose kindness in these situations. The shoppers-gone-wild videos make examples of these people, and are often accompanied by headlines like “ Maskless ‘Karen’ coughs on complaining customer in Queens bagel shop” and “ 8 Karens and Kens who threw huge tantrums instead of putting on masks.” Their popularity and millions of views make it seem like everyone is on the same page about why this behavior is bad. It’s also happening as several states in the US report record-breaking numbers of new cases. This happens in spite of directives and pleas from epidemiologists, doctors, nurses, scientists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization to continue wearing masks, continue washing your hands, and continue to practice social distance to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. Republicans also are less likely than Democrats to say they have worn masks in stores or other businesses always or most of the time in the past month. Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to say that masks should rarely or never be worn (23% vs. Pew reported:ĭemocrats and Democratic-leaning independents are about twice as likely as Republicans and Republican leaners to say that masks should be worn always (63% vs. According to a June 25 Pew Research poll, 71 percent of Americans say we should wear masks in public either most of the time or always. Their frustration with masks seems to stem from the ongoing conservative politicization of masks as a liberal affectation having no basis in science. While the antagonists are different, the message is the same: These people believe masks aren’t necessary and that they have the right to flagrantly disregard public health advice and guidelines. Okay imagine being this much of a Male #Karen lol #Boomer doesn't wanna wear a mask in the store so he then Assaults the Employee and Trips and Falls #KarensStrikeAgain #KarensGoneWild #Karens /W2dtL4AnD9- Chad of the CHAZ June 21, 2020 ![]() ![]() “I feel threatened,” he shouts so hard his voice cracks. The caption explains that he’s been asked to put on a mask. He wears a red shirt that reads, “Running the world since 1776.” His face, sharpened and angry, screams at our cameraperson. A man at a Fort Myers, Florida, Costco, the beloved purveyor of discounted big-screen televisions and 30-roll packs of toilet paper, has gone into a rage. The next day, a similar video appeared on the internet. That video, posted on July 5, currently has been played 9.9 million times. The bottom of the video reads in cheerful, rainbow-colored letters, seemingly unaware of the human-on-mask violence its director is unleashing. “This shit’s fucking over,” she says, again and again, her free hand slapping away mask after mask. So upset in fact, that she attacked their display. This woman in Scottsdale, Arizona was super upset with Target for selling face masks.
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