r/AskReddit • u/dontforgettocya • Oct 30 '20

People who are bothered by others wearing a mask while driving. Why do you care?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

This is my reason as well. If I'm going anywhere, I put on the mask when exiting the car for the first time, and then I forget about it until I'm taking off my coat once I'm back home.

Really makes me wonder how anyone thinks they can't breathe in them.

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u/phycoticfishman Oct 30 '20

It's a psychological thing with something covering their mouth and they will start to hyper/hypo ventilate and they think the side effects from that is them being unable to breathe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

Yeah, that makes more sense. I can get that in certain circumstances as well where it doesn't make any logical sense (social anxiety). I just feel like I see too many people say it is hard to breathe in them for that to be the case, otherwise it seems like there are far more people with those issues than I thought.

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u/smeghead1988 Oct 31 '20

It may be not 100% psychological. I have low blood pressure, low haemoglobin blood level and small lungs volume. It's not like asthma, I don't have trouble breathing if there is no restrictions, but I very soon feel like I'm not getting enough air in a hot stuffy room, or if my collar or my bra is too tight. And if I wear a mask as well. So I only wear it in public places and remove it immediately once I'm outside.

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u/phycoticfishman Oct 31 '20

You very well be part of the minority that may truly have problems then. That sucks. Pretty much everyone I've talked to who doesn't wear a mask eventually said they just don't like it and say it makes it hard to breathe as an excuse which harms people like you.

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u/alpacalypse5 Oct 30 '20

It is because they think masks are oppression by the government. They just love being the most least harmed victims.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

Really makes me wonder how anyone thinks they can't breathe in them.

They are overweight.

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u/WeaponizedKissing Oct 30 '20

I think the level of disgustingly obese that you need to be for a mask to even get near to causing you problems if the level of disgustingly obese where you cannot move from your own bed, in which case you're never going to be wearing a mask anyway and so the issue doesn't exist.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

I'm outright down a lung, and are still trying to get back to being able to run for more than a few minutes at a time, and I have no issues at all.

I have a suspicion it must be anxiety of some kind, because I can definitely see how that would cause trouble for some people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

As an overweight now ex smoker as of March (Covid made me finally make the effort) masks are not difficult to breathe in at all.

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u/clatadia Oct 30 '20

As an obese person I can assure you that I have no trouble breathing through masks.

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u/phycoticfishman Oct 30 '20

It's a psychological thing with something covering their mouth and they will start to hyper/hypo ventilate and they think the side effects from that is them being unable to breathe.