Page 13 | Violet Affleck and mask mandates

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 24/09/2025 10:19

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 09:56

Ah, I knew it wouldn't take long before the bullshit really started.

No, masks don't filter out ALL pollutants, airborne viruses etc. No-one claims they do but it's a strangely common strawman put up by disingenuous people such as yourself. Almost like you're following a script.

What a mask does is reduce the risks. Not eliminate, but reduce. In the same way that a seatbelt doesn't eliminate the risk of injury in a car accident but it does reduce it.

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Comparing a mask to a seatbelt in terms of safety is not an equivalence when one is hardly an inconvenience and the other is literally smothering your face with material for extended time.

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 10:18

aold · 24/09/2025 10:01

yes, poor people have just as much chance at getting into Yale/Harvard/MIT/Cambridge as rich people. Where’s the laugh emoji?

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It's intelligence that gets you in - not money.
You could be from the richest family in the world but if you don't have the intelligence you don't get in.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 24/09/2025 10:16

MyAcornWood · 24/09/2025 09:49

She’s not hurting anyone, and I can’t see how this stops her enjoying her life, but the preachy nature of it all is a bit annoying. On an unrelated note, doesn’t she look like her mum?!

Well she potentially wants to take away the rights of others through compulsory mask wearing. So I’m not sure we can say she’s not hurting anyone. If someone mandated compulsory mask wearing indoors then my life would immediately be impacted negatively.

RafaistheKingofClay · 24/09/2025 10:16

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 09:56

Ah, I knew it wouldn't take long before the bullshit really started.

No, masks don't filter out ALL pollutants, airborne viruses etc. No-one claims they do but it's a strangely common strawman put up by disingenuous people such as yourself. Almost like you're following a script.

What a mask does is reduce the risks. Not eliminate, but reduce. In the same way that a seatbelt doesn't eliminate the risk of injury in a car accident but it does reduce it.

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Honestly there is literally no point in trying to educate people here on the risks of covid or the facts about what masks do and don’t filter. I’d give up it’s a losing battle.

ColourThief · 24/09/2025 10:13

aold · 24/09/2025 09:44

AIBU think that this shouldn’t be encouraged? Violet Affleck advocating for mask mandates. Daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. Speaking about the importance of masks. Says we should still be wearing them to curb the spread of Covid 19.
Shouldn’t a young privileged woman be enjoying her youth? Is there a reason for fit healthy people like her to still walk around in masks?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15127909/violet-affleck-mask-mandates-long-covid-ben-jennifer-garner.html

Daily Mail links.
Oh dear.

Read some actual news, not just rage bait.
Top tip, try a proper paper.

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aold · 24/09/2025 10:09

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 10:08

Would it help if I used shorter words?

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anything relevant, useful or pertinent to add, other than ad hominem attacks?

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GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 10:08

aold · 24/09/2025 10:07

you’re not making any sense whatsoever.

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Would it help if I used shorter words?

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aold · 24/09/2025 10:07

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 10:05

Uh-huh. I highlighted your blatant and dishonest straw-manning and so you're now pivoting to quibbling about the example I used. Straight out of the play-book.

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you’re not making any sense whatsoever.

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GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 10:05

aold · 24/09/2025 10:00

I can’t take you seriously at all if you’re actually comparing mask wearing to seat belt wearing ffs

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Uh-huh. I highlighted your blatant and dishonest straw-manning and so you're now pivoting to quibbling about the example I used. Straight out of the play-book.

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aold · 24/09/2025 10:01

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 09:57

Never heard of scholarships? Poor people get to go to Yale too.
Yes her parents are rich but you've got to be very smart to go there.

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yes, poor people have just as much chance at getting into Yale/Harvard/MIT/Cambridge as rich people. Where’s the laugh emoji?

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ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 10:00

aold · 24/09/2025 09:56

I’m sure she’s having a rare old time living it up on campus, sure.

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Soooo…you initially objected to her not ‘enjoying her youth’. Is she or isn’t she?

You’re not being massively coherent with regards to what you’re complaining about.

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aold · 24/09/2025 10:00

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 09:56

Ah, I knew it wouldn't take long before the bullshit really started.

No, masks don't filter out ALL pollutants, airborne viruses etc. No-one claims they do but it's a strangely common strawman put up by disingenuous people such as yourself. Almost like you're following a script.

What a mask does is reduce the risks. Not eliminate, but reduce. In the same way that a seatbelt doesn't eliminate the risk of injury in a car accident but it does reduce it.

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I can’t take you seriously at all if you’re actually comparing mask wearing to seat belt wearing ffs

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Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 09:59

What a strange thread.
In some countries (ie Japan) people wearing masks when they have a cold or whatever has been the norm way before COVID ever came along.

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 24/09/2025 09:58

The idea of enforced masks five years after the pandemic is unrealistic nonsense. She is too young and naive to be speaking out like this - it would be more appropriate as a university essay.

Butchyrestingface · 24/09/2025 09:57

Her use of her left hand during the speechifying annoys me.

Also needs to slow the fuck down (granted she's hardly the only one that applies to).

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 09:57

aold · 24/09/2025 09:54

which probably wouldn’t have been possible without multi millionaire parents who could send her to the best private schools and connections

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Never heard of scholarships? Poor people get to go to Yale too.
Yes her parents are rich but you've got to be very smart to go there.

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 09:56

aold · 24/09/2025 09:50

I’m suggesting that mandatory wearing of masks is totally unnecessary for most people and (as we know from pandemic days) masks aren’t really filtering out all pollutants, airborne viruses and nasties

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Ah, I knew it wouldn't take long before the bullshit really started.

No, masks don't filter out ALL pollutants, airborne viruses etc. No-one claims they do but it's a strangely common strawman put up by disingenuous people such as yourself. Almost like you're following a script.

What a mask does is reduce the risks. Not eliminate, but reduce. In the same way that a seatbelt doesn't eliminate the risk of injury in a car accident but it does reduce it.

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aold · 24/09/2025 09:56

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 09:54

Yes. And? She didn’t pick her parents, she still gets to have opinions.

And how is this stopping her from ‘enjoying her youth’? Is enjoyment of one’s youth only to be derived from things you agree with?

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I’m sure she’s having a rare old time living it up on campus, sure.

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Codyrhodesisaheel · 24/09/2025 09:56

I thought she had physical health issues actually, and that was why she was campaigning, because she's someone who would benefit from a reduction in spread of airborne illnesses. I'm sure she spoke about it very eloquently beforehand.

I haven't listened to her latest speech, is she advocating for everyone to continue wearing them forever, or is she advocating for masks not to be banned?

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aold · 24/09/2025 09:55

HermioneWeasley · 24/09/2025 09:54

She can wear what she wants but needs to stop preaching to the rest of us about her beliefs. It’s tiresome.

agreed. But as the parent of a Uni aged child
like Violet, I’d be concerned with this sort of extreme behaviour.

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Butchyrestingface · 24/09/2025 09:54

I don't think many 19 year olds (not even articulate Yale undergraduates) would be afforded the opportunity to give speeches to the UN. On any subject, far less mandating the continuation of mask wearing years after pandemic restrictions have lifted.

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 09:54

aold · 24/09/2025 09:51

nepo privilege

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Yes. And? She didn’t pick her parents, she still gets to have opinions.

And how is this stopping her from ‘enjoying her youth’? Is enjoyment of one’s youth only to be derived from things you agree with?

HermioneWeasley · 24/09/2025 09:54

She can wear what she wants but needs to stop preaching to the rest of us about her beliefs. It’s tiresome.

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aold · 24/09/2025 09:54

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 09:51

More likely the fact she goes to Yale.

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which probably wouldn’t have been possible without multi millionaire parents who could send her to the best private schools and connections

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aold · 24/09/2025 09:52

MyAcornWood · 24/09/2025 09:49

She’s not hurting anyone, and I can’t see how this stops her enjoying her life, but the preachy nature of it all is a bit annoying. On an unrelated note, doesn’t she look like her mum?!

the spitting image!

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