datum (n=1)<blockquote><p>wearing a respirator signifies that one is disabled to the ableists [...] terrified of their disabled-selves, and that’s what respirator discipline reminds them of.</p><p>they feel fear when they see the respirator - and this is why they associate the practice with fear, altho it is more a correlate of courage.</p></blockquote><p>(personally I think it is not a conscious fear, but that there's such a strong aversion to the notion that it <em>cannot</em> be comfortably contemplated, and <em>some people are unable or unwilling to sit with the discomforts of reality</em> or to consider less than ideal outcomes, and literally will not, do not hold the idea of the existence of personal negative outcomes. Sometimes they call themselves "optimists" but it's head in the sand behaviour.)</p><p>6/🧵from <a href="https://gameplaydoomer.substack.com/p/respirator-discipline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gameplaydoomer.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">respirator-discipline</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/RespiratorDiscipline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespiratorDiscipline</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CleanAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanAir</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CleanTheAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanTheAir</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AirborneAware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirborneAware</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/PPE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPE</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaskUp</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SARSCoV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SARSCoV2</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a></p>