How long do you plan on wearing a mask for? Will it be for the rest of your life? What will change your view?
This isn’t meant to be inflammatory. There’s someone at work who wears one everyday and I’m too afraid to ask them.
The rest of my life, no question. I haven’t had a cold or the flu in years. It’s not inconvenient, other than a few assholes so why should I stop?
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I’ve been wanting one of these ever since I saw a YouTube blacksmith using one.
I’m not immunocompromised or any other kind of high-risk and I wear an N95 mask in most indoor public settings.
I plan on doing it until something changes. That could mean any of:
- SARS-CoV-2 mutates into a dominant strain with a low risk of long-term disability
- A new vaccine is developed that reduces the risk of long-term disability following COVID, or probability of infection to virtually nil
- Monitoring programs, such as CDC wastewater testing show a low risk of infection
It seems to me people collectively decided to stop caring about COVID even though most of the risks that were present two years ago still exist. I would therefore ask the inverse: why stop protecting yourself before the danger is over?
I noticed during COVID, I had almost no problems with hay fever. I wouldn’t mind going back to wearing one full time.
If you take the pollution out of the sky and guarantee sick people actually do wear masks and that facial recognition cameras are dismantled, then I’ll stop
Why do you give a shit? Are the bad mask people hurting you? Leave people alone ffs.
also the most disarming response when somebody asks “why are you wearing a mask” is, “because I don’t trust the government”.
I only wear one if I’m sick, or travelling by plane.
I always wear them in airports. Airplanes I have stopped caring, but airports have so. many. people.
My story is I was in Denver, sitting in a chair. This was long before covid. The only chair left was one by those moving walkways in the middle of their concourses. I was sitting there reading and some guy literally turned to his right and just sneezed directly in my face. Wet drips literally down my cheek. He just casually rolled away on it, never said anything. I was sick the next day.
Fuck that guy, fuck gross people. Mask won’t protect me against that, but ffs if your sick just wear one.
if I have something contagious, I’m going to wear a medical mask, because that’s the purpose of medical masks. That’s considered standard etiquette in other parts of the world, and I think it’s a little rude that people walk around with colds and flus without masking up. if I’m going to be in a tube with a bunch of other people, like an airplane, I’m wearing an N95. That’s not even about COVID, that’s just about fuck that shit
also, I’m autistic, and there are times where I really don’t feel like having people see me. COVID made it socially acceptable to wear facial coverings indoors, so I might be at the grocery store wearing a hat, sunglasses, and mask, just because I’m not in the mood to be perceived. in this case it’s usually not a medical mask or n95, it’s either a decorative mask, or a neck gaiter pulled up.
I still masked up everywhere for a lot longer than most people did, before deciding exactly what I was and was not comfortable with. I figured, now that we’ve got the vaccines, and more than one antiviral that can treat it, plus other treatments in the hospital, I’m comfortable treating it more like influenza. not something that I’m going to avoid like the plague, but something that I still want to avoid, and when other people have it, they should be going out of their way to not give it to others.
oh and with the autism thing, if you have a place that’s blasting some oil diffuser, it helps a lot. people walk around blasting scent like it smells good and it’s just a headache
I talked to a Baskin Robins ice cream shop manager during a summer (not peak time for the disease) in the pandemic who was wearing a mask (surgical, not the N95 variety) and asked him when he planned to stop, and he had an interesting point. He said that it was that some customers got upset if they saw someone working at the store not wearing one, that it affected their sales. It sounded like for him, it wasn’t so much whether-or-not he thought that the mask was providing much of a benefit, but a straightforward computation as to what brought in customers: like, if he could get more sales by wearing a fluorescent outfit, he’d wear fluorescent.
I wish more food service people wore masks!
Yeah, it’ll be the rest ofy life. We should’vbe been doing this two decades ago, honestly.
I have asthma (is that technically immunocompromised?) and before COVID I used to just get bronchitis every year or two. I haven’t had bronchitis since 2020, except when I caught COVID by taking off my mask. If wearing a mask means I don’t deal with that shit again you better believe I’m not raw dogging public air anymore. Feeling unable to get a full breath is the worst feeling in the world.
Most scented products give me a headache or hurt my throat. I noticed during Covid that my N95 was blocking much of the smells in the stores.
Most likely I’ll be wearing a mask for the rest of my life.
A cashier at Walmart asked me why I’m wearing a mask. I had no problem telling him why. Ask your co-worker
Edit: Also, I’m a privacy enthusiast and facial recognition is going to be one of our biggest invasions of privacy.
I tend to wear them on public transportation:
a) in my city I wear them because we have bad public transportation and people tend to be dangerously packed inside the buses (this issue recently has started to be alleviated), so to protect my self (and also show that things arent well inside) I wear the mask.
b) in other foreign cities I wear the mask in public transportation because:
1)I dont want to be sick on vacations
2)Different countries probably(?) have kinda different strains of viruses and such, so it may be more dangerous for me.
