The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic resulted in some requirements to wear face masks. Many people didn’t like to wear them and believed that the masks were not effective.
     
This was posted on Sickipedia on December 6, 2021:
     
“If you pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend yours works.”
   
     
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
 
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If you pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend yours works.
Joke by smilex in Illness and Mortality - Coronavirus · December 6, 2021 07:26 PM
 
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JUNE
@TJ07052020
If you pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend yours works.
2:26 PM · Dec 6, 2021·Twitter for Android (Posted after the above.—ed.)
 
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Danny Bamping
@dannybamping
If you pretend I’m wearing a mask,
I’ll pretend yours works…
4:18 PM · Dec 6, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
If you pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend yours works.
7:00 PM · Dec 6, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
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daniel
@DHikisz
If you pretend I’m wearing a mask, I’ll pretend yours works
4:32 AM · Dec 7, 2021·Twitter Web App