In an ambiguous world, it would be perfectly sufficient to accept any personal reason not to wear a mask. It is not even necessary to have several reasons, such as anxiety and asthma together. It is quite sufficient that a person under the mask has psychological problems and becomes anxious. Where are all the achievements from psychology, the anxiety states that are recognised as, for example, unremembered traumas, where the individual often cannot even say where they actually come from, because the experiences happened too long ago or have been repressed out of self-protection.
Where do we hear the voices of psychologists who know that re-traumatisation is a serious problem for those affected and that any action capable of triggering it harms them?
The Corona regulations speak of "credibility" with regard to the exemptions from wearing masks, but at the same time this passage is simply ignored or it is pretended that someone is only credible if they can produce a medical certificate, which is not mentioned in these our federal state regulations. But since one does not dare to accept this credibility from person to person, a third authority, a doctor, must support this.
To claim, for example, that not wearing a mask for "political reasons" is not an acceptable justification both misunderstands the "political reason" and misuses this term, ignoring the fact that behind "political reasons" there is always a personal fate related to the fact that people feel threatened and have real existential fears.
In truth, it is extremely difficult to give a real reason other than that the mask leads to panic and that when one wears it, this panic manifests itself in the form of an increased heartbeat, a condition that is perceived as unbearable, which literally tightens one's throat and takes one's breath away, because, for example, one either gasps for air more behind the mask or keeps one's breath artificially shallow and therefore becomes dizzy.
Not only do these strong physical effects affect you, no, it goes further. For me personally, I start to suffer from shortness of breath when ANOTHER person wears the mask and visibly sucks it into the mouth when speaking.
Just the sight of the many masked people around me increases my fear and it is hardly bearable to meet masked people and even less to be in conversation with them. The fact that another person is inhaling heavily the mask and thus harming himself in my eyes, how can someone compassionate even watch this without getting trepidation?
Now, some respond that these are exaggerated and psychologically distorted perceptions and that one "shouldn't make such a fuss". But even IF they are exaggerations, projections, etc., are they negligible?
It seems to me that the field of psychology is still a stepchild and is simply treated as basically non-existent or irrelevant by materialistic worldviews. And since one owes hard evidence for the individual feeling of a human being, one does not take it for granted that each person not only has a self-responsibility to decide only according to his own body and mind feeling, but also knows that he owes no one an account for this.
Now, however, this account is not only wrung from him, he must also, in case of doubt, reveal his very intimacy and often his innermost being to strangers. That is, what we understand by "hurting dignity".