Jessica Chastain says she 'got quite a lot of flak' for wearing a mask at award shows

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'A lot of people thought I was making some political statement'

Jessica Chastain says she wasn't attempting to make a "political statement" when she wore a mask at award shows this past season.

The Zero Dark Thirty star, 46, shared at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Tony Nominees Roundtable that she got some criticism after she was spotted at several awards shows wearing a face mask in order to prevent contracting COVID-19 while she tackled the leading role on Broadway in Henrik Ibsen's iconic play, A Doll’s House.

"We were testing every day on our show, and even if you had no symptoms, if you tested positive for COVID, you were out for a week — and I was meeting people at the stage door who flew in from Shanghai and flew in from all over the world. To be out of the show for a week? It just felt like it was so irresponsible," said Chastain, who received a Tony Award nomination for her role.

But not everyone understand her instinct to take precautions.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jessica-chastain-says-she-got-210226980.html

The "Fuck your feelings crowd" got triggered again.

[FakeNoose]

1. I don't blame her for wearing a mask

It was either that or stay home. She can't risk going around strangers and getting Covid.
I'll bet the people who came from Shanghai were all wearing masks too.

[gratuitous]

2. I'm still wearing a mask

I have yet to notice anyone looking at me cross-eyed, but if I get some static I'm prepared to say, "Well, at my age I tend to be forgetful, and the mask helps me remember to mind my own business."

You have a nice day.

[blm]

5. Yup, yup.

[zuul]

8. Me too.

I'm usually the only person wearing one. Luckily no one has said a word to me. If anyone ever does, I will lower my mask, say that I've been feeling ill, and then cough in their general direction.

[MurrayDelph]

11. I've been approached on it once

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In January I was moving the last of my stuff from storage in L.A. up to Oregon and stopped for food and gas at a truck stop in Santa Nella that sold Shell gasoline and Popeyes. While waiting for my order, a walking caricature (400 lbs, large amount of belly fat sticking out from under his dirty t-shirt and over his sweat pants, holding two one-gallon thermoses) felt it was his privilege to comment. He looked at me and said "You know those things don't work." I looked back and said "I got nothing to lose then, do I?"

[DENVERPOPS]

16. LOL

I would have told him that if he is ever operated on, I will let the surgeons and nurses know that......

I am not a surgeon, but can only imagine the difficulty in having to deal with that thick a layer of fat when trying to operate on someones abdominal organs.......

[AZ8theist]

20. I would have looked the pig right in the eye....

and said:

NEITHER DOES YOUR FUCKING BRAIN.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. good response. I wear one in public places and so far, no crap. Just got another booster!

[calimary]

19. So am I. And if it's not on my face, it's on a tether around my neck so it's within easy reach.

[Xavier Breath]

3. It's no one's business if she or anyone else chooses to mask up.

She didn't owe one damn person an explanation. Yet, she handled the situation with much more class and much less profanity than I would have done.

[tanyev]

4. "Several other stars did catch the virus following the [Golden Globes] award ceremony"

There ya go. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for some to grasp.

[unblock]

6. The objections right wingers have to *other people choosing* to wear a mask shows

that they do not believe in freedom and they are and have been rooting for the virus.

There was a thin argument about personal liberty in choosing not to wear a mask. But there was never a good argument for berating other people for choosing to wear one.

These people are just plain evil.

[CrispyQ]

7. Good for her.

Covid's not over & you never know how it will affect you & if you might be one of the ones who gets long Covid. Fuck that.

A friend had a celebration at a brewery that has an outdoor area & as I walked through the front with my mask on, someone yelled out, "Covid's over dimwit." They couldn't just keep their opinion to themselves or say something quietly to their group. That's the problem these days. I don't remember such in-your-face rudeness when I was a kid. That's not to say it was nonexistent, just that it wasn't common behavior in public like today. I feel like Palin sort of stuck her foot in the door & Trump shoved it wide open. The lowest common denominator; good for math, not so much for society.

[3catwoman3]

18. "The lowest common denominator; good for math, not so much for society."

Very well put. I'll add this to my lexicon. Thnx -

[AlexSFCA]

9. It's not the mask but the workplace rules

we are still stuck with workplace rules from emergency pandemic era which make no sense, contact tracing, isolation, etc. We have such effective vaccines now and abundance of high quality masks so for people with no symtpoms but tested positive to be isolated is ludicrous in 2023. We don’t have a vaccine for RSV which is likely more dangerous to some people because of it but no one cares about it. Jessica has no choice but to wear a mask due to mandatory workplace covid testing, I highly doubt she is afraid to contract covid (I bet she is vaccinated, boosted and had it already).
We should be normalizing mask wearing for those who are sick with respiratory symptoms. It is clear that isolating creates more problems than it solves.

[Iggo]

10. Trying not to get sick is not a political statement.

Trying not to get other people sick is not a political statement.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. well said.

[MurrayDelph]

15. Since February of last year, my pinned tweet has been

Even after they loosen mask rules I'll still wear a mask in public for three reasons:
1. I don't know if you have it and don't want to get it from you
2. No one can be 100% sure they don't have it and I don't want to give it TO you
3. I don't want anyone assuming I'm a Republican

[Rebl2]

14. Covid is

still around folks. Found out this weekend that it’s in the nursing home my mom is in-again. They had around of it in February and early March and Mom got a mild case. Now it’s back again. Last month they dropped their mask policy and now we have to mask up again and that’s okay. I don’t know why they dropped it in the first place. They have a vulnerable population.

[niyad]

17. I have been approached several times for my mask. . .all to say, "Thank you".

anybody who has anything else to say is invited to go to hell.

[intrepidity]

21. I can never go maskless again

I've become so used to muttering explitives safely behind a mask, that I fear what would happen without my shield.

[dlk]

22. Of all the crowds

One would think this crowd would have been a “live & let live” one.

[Warpy]

23. Wearing or not wearing a mask is now a personal decision

Yes, if you're vaxxed and have a minor case of the sniffles you're passing off as allergies but which are covid, you will shed virus. The jury is out on whether you're shedding enough of a viral load co cause severe disease in unvaxxed people. This is normal for any disease spread by droplets or aerosols or even surface contamination.

My own feeling is that the antivax hosers are now on their own. I don't wear a mask. If I have the sniffles and/or a temp, I stay home. I should mention we had a 95% compliance rate in this state, which adds to my confidence.

Masks were used during the pandemic stage of covid to protect other people. They did little to protect the wearer unless they were N95 masks. All the others were permeable to viruses but which stopped the wearer's droplets and aerosols pretty efficiently.

Wearing a mask is now optional, unless you're visiting people in hospitals or nursing homes, then it's a good idea.