Meet the Forever Maskers
17th July 2025
There exists today, in 2025, a small group of people still fanatically obsessed with COVID-19. They think national governments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organisation are conspiring to hide the truth about the pandemic. They have lost trust in mainstream scientific research, and instead do their own research on wacky cures and remedies.
These people are not ‘far-right,’ anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists, as you might expect. Rather, they are convinced that the COVID-19 pandemic never ended.
Years after the last lockdown measures were lifted, since the daily press briefings stopped, and since the posters instructing us how to properly wash our hands were quietly taken down, for a small, committed group, the pandemic goes on. These are the ‘forever maskers’—people who continue to wear their N95 masks in public, refuse to meet friends and family indoors, and disinfect every item they touch.
You may have come across them on social-media sites like X, berating others whom they deem to be less virtuous than they are, for not abiding by these insane, self-imposed rules. They insist that the pandemic isn’t over, that it will never be over, and that not taking the ‘right’ precautions could literally kill you or your loved ones.
Hey, you gotta look for yourself … nobody else is going to.