Covid consciousness is not OCD???

There's a post in an OCD subreddit from someone proud they fought the compulsion... to mask? And saying it was scary cause a guy coughed near them... People are praising them for the exposure therapy, but I'm really annoyed. I didn't say anything in the comments and I'm asking people to not go looking for the post cause OCD is fucking hell and I'm not gonna make someone else's day worse, but...

What the fuck? That's like saying you're working on combating your contamination obsession by stopping washing your hands entirely. How the hell have we gotten to the point where being safe is the mental illness? And now I'm worried this dude's gonna go out without a mask, catch covid, and trigger even worse OCD.

Since what we all know happened happened, my OCD has gotten so much worse and I hoped to feel better reading stuff from people in the same boat. Seeing that sort of active effort to become less covid conscious was just another disappointment I really didn't need lol I'm just exhausted.