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Violet Affleck and mask mandates

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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

OP posts:
Woompund · 24/09/2025 13:37

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 24/09/2025 09:48

Are you suggesting that a young woman should not be allowed to choose what she wears?

Do you know what mandate means?

dreamiesformolly · 24/09/2025 13:35

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 24/09/2025 12:32

I agree, @dreamiesformolly - I caught Covid after getting the first dose of the first vaccine, and I ended up in hospital, on oxygen, having dropped my oxygen saturations to under 90%. I was in for several days, luckily not in ICU, but ended up with long covid, which has left me registered disabled, only able to leave the house very rarely, with dh basically having to do almost everything round the house. I can make myself a sandwich, or heat a ping meal, but haven’t cooked a proper meal in years. I used to go to the library, or do the supermarket shop in person, or wander round a shopping centre, art gallery, museum or stately home, but I can’t do that any more.

Gosh, sorry to hear that, sounds horrendous. Long Covid is a b*stard and one of the reasons it winds me up when people downplay Covid. I don't have it myself but know a couple of people who do.

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 13:33

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:29

What a horrible bitchy thread about a young woman that I doubt anyone on here as actually met.

It’s very strange, isn’t it?

viques · 24/09/2025 13:33

ImATerribleMultitasker · 24/09/2025 13:05

Is this why there are loads of young people going about wearing masks now?

Let them crack on. We have enough issues to deal with without more snowflake angst.

In my area kids wear masks so they aren’t picked up on cctv when they snatch your phone in the street. 🙁 I am not suggesting that Violet is a street robber.

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 13:33

InsectsMatter · 24/09/2025 13:28

This speaking slot should have been given to someone with something useful to say.

Nobody elected this eccentric hypochondriacal nepo baby, and the sooner she disappears back to her pampered and vacuous existence within her gated community, the better!

That’s your opinion. It’s clearly not shared by the people whose opinions matter in this respect.

The amount of vitriol on this thread is very strange. Absolutely nothing about this young woman indicates she’s vacuous, and ‘eccentric’ is an insult, now? Seriously, you know you can just…disagree. Without unpleasantness. ‘Person X said Y, I don’t think that’s right because of Z.’ It’s really not that hard.

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:30

viques · 24/09/2025 13:29

Because , sadly , it goes with the territory. Cheese and chutney, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, apple pie and custard, woke nepo kids and pronouns…..

Her sister and (ex) stepsister apparently use they/them but there's never been any reports that Violet does.

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:29

What a horrible bitchy thread about a young woman that I doubt anyone on here as actually met.

viques · 24/09/2025 13:29

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:26

Why on earth would you think that?
(the pronouns)

Because , sadly , it goes with the territory. Cheese and chutney, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, apple pie and custard, woke nepo kids and pronouns…..

InsectsMatter · 24/09/2025 13:28

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 13:16

I mean, clearly some people do care. Or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

And she’s hardly ‘bothering people’. She doesn’t know we exist. We are actively choosing to engage about this. We could just as easily choose not to.

Edited

This speaking slot should have been given to someone with something useful to say.

Nobody elected this eccentric hypochondriacal nepo baby, and the sooner she disappears back to her pampered and vacuous existence within her gated community, the better!

viques · 24/09/2025 13:27

Turningworld · 24/09/2025 10:46

She wants hepa air filters in public buildings. Hepa filters filter the air and significantly reduce the amount of bacteria, mould and viral particles that we breath in.
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/covid19-national-project/2023/01/09/how-we-know-that-hepa-filter-based-air-cleaners-are-likely-to-be-beneficial-for-reducing-transmission-of-respiratory-infections/

Edited

blimey, we are struggling getting single sex toilets across the board, and they only need a stick on sign. Hepa filters are not even on the wish list!

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:26

viques · 24/09/2025 13:23

Poor Violet needs to work on their skills of persuasion, they can’t even get their own parents to wear masks.

I am using they and their pronouns because I sort of suspect that that is what Violet would prefer. Bless

Why on earth would you think that?
(the pronouns)

FuzzyWolf · 24/09/2025 13:24

viques · 24/09/2025 13:23

Poor Violet needs to work on their skills of persuasion, they can’t even get their own parents to wear masks.

I am using they and their pronouns because I sort of suspect that that is what Violet would prefer. Bless

Violet also doesn’t wear a face mask all the time.

nomas · 24/09/2025 13:23

I keep reading Violet Affleck as Violent Affect or Violent Affliction.

Strange name combo.

viques · 24/09/2025 13:23

Poor Violet needs to work on their skills of persuasion, they can’t even get their own parents to wear masks.

I am using they and their pronouns because I sort of suspect that that is what Violet would prefer. Bless

FuzzyWolf · 24/09/2025 13:23

"As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point, the whole population is the control group, and after only five years, long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children in five years and under," she explained."

This is the same age group most impacted with speech and language delays as a direct result of people wearing masks.

Dinkyshrinks · 24/09/2025 13:20

What help should people seek if they are unable to face facts?

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 13:18

CowTown · 24/09/2025 13:15

Perhaps OP would prefer her to spend her youth having one night stands and drunkenly pissing in alleys, rather than being an academic at Yale.

So it would appear!

ForZanyAquaViewer · 24/09/2025 13:16

InsectsMatter · 24/09/2025 13:14

Nobody cares what this spoilt, pampered nepo baby has to say.

She should seek help for her health anxiety and stop bothering people.

I mean, clearly some people do care. Or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

And she’s hardly ‘bothering people’. She doesn’t know we exist. We are actively choosing to engage about this. We could just as easily choose not to.

CowTown · 24/09/2025 13:15

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?

Perhaps OP would prefer her to spend her youth having one night stands and drunkenly pissing in alleys, rather than being an academic at Yale.

InsectsMatter · 24/09/2025 13:14

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?

Nobody cares what this spoilt, pampered nepo baby has to say.

She should seek help for her health anxiety and stop bothering people.

Turningworld · 24/09/2025 13:10

Dinkyshrinks · 24/09/2025 13:01

It’s pushback against cleaner air. I don’t get it. Let’s reduce hospital-acquired infections. No!
Let’s reduce the number of people becoming disabled from infections. No!
Let’s reduce the costs of infections. No!
Let’s help with allergens. No!
Let’s improve attendance. No!
Let’s improve test scores. No!

Ah but we can't take away their freedoms by putting air filters in public buildings and forcing them to breathe cleaner air. I wonder if these people are aware that their freedoms are also being eroded by the dreadful people who remove pathogens from their water?

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:06

Pedallleur · 24/09/2025 11:43

would have thought there were bigger issues in the US right now for her to defend.is this her thing or has she a job eg lawyer

Edited

She's 19 and at university.

ImATerribleMultitasker · 24/09/2025 13:05

Is this why there are loads of young people going about wearing masks now?

Let them crack on. We have enough issues to deal with without more snowflake angst.

Needmorelego · 24/09/2025 13:04

HonoraBridge · 24/09/2025 11:35

You think everyone who goes to Yale gets the opportunity to speak at the UN? Seriously? It is clearly nepotism.

I wouldn't have a clue.
All I know is it's a world respected university.

CharlieKirkRIP · 24/09/2025 13:02

She is clearly mentally unwell.