Mask Deniers
Here’s How to Handle Them
As a Matter of Fact
We’re not just in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic. Fortunately, we’re living on Earth School. Where life experience can be educational!
As a result, I’m continuing this: Our Coronavirus Collective Consciousness PROTECTION Series:
Let’s get practical about how to deal with Mask Deniers during the coronovirus pandemic.
Although Mask Deniers May Not Care about Objective Reality
Nonetheless, YOU Can. Ha ha!
And soon you’ll see how much this can help you: Understanding the diff. Specifically how objective reality is totally different from subjective reality.
First of all, what is objective reality? That means what people say and do. Plus facts, statistics. Also physical objects and how they move.
Another easy way to understand objective reality is this: Whatever shows in a YouTube video.
Contrasting with that, what’s subjective reality? , which means how you feel and think; also, your feelings and thoughts and theories about other people. Of course, that matters. The big question is, matters how much?
Simply put, what’s your daily choice? Especially important when communicating with Mask Deniers!
Speak the language of objective reality. Only. And consistently.
Introducing a Tale of Talking to a Mask Denier
Yes, let’s use an example to tackle the problem of mask deniers. Versus those of us with the sense to wear masks to combat Covid-19.
Charles Darwin could have been researching humans, particularly humans living in 2020, when he wrote about the survival of the fittest. Quite literally, millions of Americans are going maskless in public. Most notably at super-spreader events.
Another sign they’re true believers in the Trump Death Cult? Amazingly they’re mask denying… proudly. Regardless of their subjective beliefs, hello! All super-spreader enthusiasts will face health consequences in objective reality.
Recently I spent a full session of Energy Spirituality by helping my client Joe to deal with a Mask Denier. In detail, I helped him to untangle the craziness of this passionate national debate.
Because Joe’s friend Gladys had just given him an earful, complaining loud and long. Such as praising a demonstration in Michigan where protesters with guns complained. And why? Since, supposedly, demonstrators had a right to not be “locked in.”
Baby souls, claiming what? “I’m free to not wear a mask. You can’t make me.”
More Subjective Nonsense from Gladys, the Mask Denier
Next Gladys accused Joe of lacking compassion. And that’s what really confused him.
You see, this honorable man cares so much as being a good person. Exactly as you probably do! (As a matter of fact, Joe is even in Enlightenment. Years ago, in my role as Enlightenment Coach, I validated that for him.)
During this session about Mask Denier Gladys, thank goodness! Systematically I was able to help Joe to sort through different pieces of this mask-wearing puzzle. And now I’d like to help you do that as well.
Mask Denier or Not? Objective Reality Matters
For starters, please know this:
Are you into authentic personal growth and/or spiritual awakening?
Then it can help to know this: Objective reality matters enormously. Since it constantly helps you to keep your life real.
For example, by now the scientific evidence is incontrovertible. Wearing masks helps to protect others, as well as oneself. As of today, 9.3 million+ Americans have contracted Covid-19. And 231,182 have died.
Undoubtedly, in objective reality, this pandemic is real. Moreover, health professionals like Dr. Fauci have laid out exactly how to flatten the curve. Mask-wearing in public? That’s key.
- So that’s one side of the story. Namely, the side about objective reality.
- How about the other side? Let’s explore that subjective side: One Mask Denier meme at a time.
Mask Denier Belief #1. “Locking Me In”
If the government asks me to #StayHome, that means the government is locking me in.
Objective reality: False. No jack-booted thugs are coming to anybody’s front door with a padlock.
Subjective reality: True. Protestors like Gladys may feel very aggrieved, as if they’re being locked in. However, that’s a feeling rather than a fact.
Mask Denier Belief #2. “I Wanna Be Free”
I am free to do what makes me feel good, and that means no mask wearing.
Objective reality: False. Personal freedom does not include the right to endanger other people’s lives during a pandemic. Refusing to wear masks puts other people at risk.
Subjective reality: True. In Gladys’s inner experience she feels totally justified. However, that’s an illusion. Sure, the more stuck she is in subjective reality, the more passionately Gladys may believe she is right. But that doesn’t make her right in objective reality.
Mask Denier Belief #3. “Masks Upset Me”
Other people should understand how much this order to wear masks upsets me.
Objective reality: False. When people don’t wear masks in public, hello! They endanger the health and safety of others. Whatever excuses they make subjectively, this fact remains true: Mask wearing saves lives.
Subjective reality: True. Since Gladys is discounting objective reality and going wild with her feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. Consequently, Gladys finds no limit to her demands of other people. Nonetheless, her subjective beliefs do not translate into a legitimate need to sicken her neighbors (which happens to be a likely consequence of her behavior in objective reality).
Mask Denier Belief #4. Mask Wearing Is Unspiritual
Spiritual people would show me compassion.
Objective reality: False. “Show compassion” behavior, to Gladys, means allowing, encouraging, even enabling selfish people. Sympathizing with over-subjective individuals who refuse to obey applicable public health rules and regulations.
Subjective reality: False. People like Gladys don’t have the right to dictate how anyone else feels or believes, let alone what is “spiritual.” Not right to do to Joe, nor me, nor you.
How to Talk to Mask Deniers
When you hear tirades to justify irresponsible behavior (irresponsible in objective reality), don’t go into the other person’s subjective justifications.
Simply ask yourself: Which part of this argument concerns subjective reality? Versus what is true about this situation in objective reality?
In the example of Joe and Gladys, both sides of this story may be equally intense. However, only one is correct, once you consider what’s true in objective reality.
I hope this approach can protect you from having the Gladys’s of the world succeed at bullying you.
For extra protection:
Flag when people use spiritual or emotional arguments (subjective) arguments
in order to distract you from paying attention to objective reality.
Some would call that kind of flagging: Your patriotic duty.
Thanks for reading.
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