Does anyone else take offense of stylizing covid masks?

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A lot of people are wearing them for style and showing them in photographs, etc. But I find this to in extremely poor taste, and I am not a person who offends easily by any means, but I find this to be, because it feels like capitilizing on a tragedy, and half the population is doing it it seems.

It would be like if after 9/11 for example, that half the population decided to buy T-shirts with pictures of the WTC going down, or something like that.

Unless I am wrong and this not capitilizing on a tragedy?

It's people coping with a stressful situation. Yes they're being disrespectful, but they're under no obligation to respect this situation that we've all had imposed upon us. It's not as though they're refusing to wear a mask, they're just making the best of having to wear one.

A number of fashion houses are creating designer masks so it might be seen capitalising on a pandemic but as far as they are concerned they probably don't see themselves as different from a drug store capitalising on the sick/invalid to make money as they offering a good that's in demand during a pandemic.

I often wonder if people with tattoos really like body art or are expressing narcissistic traits and want people to look at them? It's all in the eye of the beholder I guess.

The way I see it, if it gets people wearing them, I'm fine with it.

There are some decorated mask designs which give me the creeps to even outright revulsion.

Mine are all plain.

As far as why there even exist decorated masks, humans have been decorating things since cavemen painted cave walls, maybe even longer than that; to be human is to decorate.

Another factor may well be, "Okay, if I have to do it then I'm going to have fun with it."

And that would be at least one factor in why Model Railroader and Trains magazines offer decorated masks.
Even NASA, for example, is doing that, https://www.shopnasa.com/products/i-need-my-space-mask
While I'm not going to get it I do think the "I need my space" slogan on it is witty, cute.

In the early days of the pandemic, there was a very severe shortage of face masks. Many individuals with seamstress skills chipped in and started to fill the void. They tried to make cloth masks that looked attractive. In many cases they donated masks to hospitals and nursing homes. They created children's mask that the kids actually found desirable to wear.

So if people wish to wear stylized face mask, I generally have little objection. But I am an N95 man myself and place functionality above beauty.

Well I guess another analogy for how I see it is, if imagine after a school shooting, teenagers and kids all around the country, decided to show off fashionable bullet proof vests and body armor on social media and make sales out of it. Or I guess that's how I see it.

I thought you could be defiant without showing off, and exploiting. Humbly defiant if that makes sense?

Masks are not a tragedy. The masks probably aren't meant to represent covid; they're just being used as a new kind of fashion.

To be honest its no different to underwear now, likely we are going to live with it for years to come. If people want to parade their facemasks on social media that's their business.

Goodness, I like style masks. I got my daughter a Frozen mask and my son a Super Mario bros. mask.

I see no harm in this, it's the new normal now.

I Don’t mind them making masks “cool” if the NT herd mentality makes more NTs wear masks