I recently got some transparent masks, but I’m now realizing that they probably aren’t nearly effective enough at catching finer aerosols. To solve this, I could either buy some conventional respirators which obscure my mouth, or I could buy an Omnimask, which is patented by a white-owned for-profit corpo in Seppoland with strong ties to the military (and is also expensive as fuck!)

Put another way, I can do nothing and be Deaf-friendly and good about boycotting Seppos, but bad about COVID; or I can be good about COVID and boycotting Seppos, but bad about Deaf-friendliness; or I can be good about both COVID and Deaf-friendliness, but funnel my money straight into the Septic Army. Dô-shi-fuckin’-yô.

I hate this Catch-22-ass Hydra’s heads in a whack-a-mole game situation 'cause it literally just doesn’t have to be this way. The Omnimask could’ve been open design manufactured affordably by many different manufacturers around the world, in which case I wouldn’t have to choose which marginalized group to fuck over — but Capitalist Innovation™ simply had different plans in store for us.

Edit: If anybody knows of transparent masks as good as the Omnimask, which are more ethical and hopefully also cheaper, please share them.