Who here still wears a mask? - eviltoast
  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I wrote it reularly for 2 years because my job required is to wear them.

    I got COVID anyway despite that. It wasn’t that bad. I felt like I had a flu. No appetite, sore, tired, and shivering for almost a week. It sucked, but I don’t feel like I needed medical attention, or anything that laying in bed couldn’t fix.

    After I was no longer required to wear it, i stopped.

  • vis4valentine@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I still use a mask daily. I actually like it. Also going without a mask in public in terrible. Car smoke, death animal smell, piss smell, random people coughing, etc. A mask prevents me of smelling all of that in a pretty effective way.

    Also dont have to force smile wearing a mask.

  • uncapybarable@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Indoors in public, all the time.

    I don’t want to catch COVID again if I can help it. It’s a shitty, dangerous virus.

    TBH, I don’t think most people understand that it’s not just a bad cold–it’s a virus that attacks your vascular system that also does some nasty respiratory stuff. The increased risks of heart attacks and strokes after even a mild infection are not great, and if you’re getting infected every year, you’re permanently carrying that elevated risk.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    If I’m feeling sick, or my family is, I will wear one to work, the whole point of them is to minimize spread of disease.

  • EternalExplorer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This thread is an interesting “filter bubble” experience. Here, a city in central europe, nobody I know wears one anymore, even those who were always extra-careful on the cautious side. Basically nobody in stores wears one nor in public transport. Yeah, on occasion you find 1-2 exceptions that confirm the rule.

    Probably, this thread is largely visited by those who still do, and ignored by those who don’t.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the US and I don’t know the last time I saw someone wearing a mask outside of a medical setting. Most still don’t even then.

  • flaccid_girth@lemm.ee
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    At this point, only if it is required, and it almost never is. No bad feelings at all towards people who do wear them. I’m not personally concerned about it, and nobody in my family is high risk, so I decided early on that I’d just follow local rules and CDC guidelines. CDC website currently only recommends masks if you may have been exposed so that’s what I’ve been doing.

  • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I still wear a mask, 70% because I take care of at-risk relatives, 30% because people treat me better when they cant see my ugly face

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Everytime I go grocery shopping I will also be wearing a mask. I am kind of baffled by people who seem to think that corona has poofed out of existence.

    • tomi000@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It still exists but the main problem is solved. Hospitals arent full, the virus mutated to much less deadly variants and the majority of people is immunized. Right now, Corona is just another flu. Sure its not nice but the average joe will get it now and then.

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The only time now is if I’m somewhere that requires one, or if I’m sick/getting over bring sick.

    Fuuuuck wearing a mask otherwise, I’ve filled that quota for a lifetime.

  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Haven’t worn one since I got the vaccine. I was working full time the whole way through as a regional truck driver but didn’t catch it until January 2022. It was meh.

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    I am one of the only people here that still wears a mask at the doctor. Even most of the doctors stopped wearing them (what the hell! thats where the sick and immunocompromised are most likely to be in the same building!)

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t make you feel a bit better about not wearing one that most doctors aren’t? If they think the risk is so low, or that continuous mask wearage is more detrimental than covid?

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        1 year ago

        No it does not make me feel better that people that should know better than to not wear a mask in an environment full of sick and immunocompromised people are not wearing masks. And no wearing a mask is not worse than covid holy shit.

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          1 year ago

          There’s nuance there that you’re skipping right over. Continuous mask wearing is detrimental, it has negative consequences.

          • jerkface@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            You can’t hide “masks are worse than covid” anywhere in that slight shade of nuance.

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              1 year ago

              The detriment as a whole, over a lifespan is where the nuance lies. It’s okay though, this kind of actual thinking over knee-jerk response is hard. I understand if you can’t bring yourself to do that.