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.
I think this has been the norm in asian cultures since way before covid.
Japan and Korea. Ain’t no such thing in South East Asia.
We wear mask becaise of pollution 🙃
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Indeed. Western society tends to be individualistic and forgets that masks are primarily used to protect those around you from disease.
Tends to? They beat us over our heads with their selfishness through COVID.
“Why are you wearing a mask?!?” Because I didn’t want to get you sick, thanks for returning the favor.
If you’re feeling sick you should stay home.
I agree, but the bosses boss wants butts to warm the seats. I make sure those days have time taking to bosses boss. Some day, they may get the point.
Just out of curiosity - no judging, but why do you go to work when feeling ill?
No work no money. No money no food. No food, die. RIP
A lot of people get paid by hours worked so not showing up means a lower monthly income. And hourly contracts don’t have sick leave in many cases. At least in several countries around the world.
I work from home, with about one day in the office a week, if it’s something minor, or I think it’s just seasonal allergies, I’ll still go in.
Not an American, I take it?
This right here. It just makes sense and is the ethical thing to do for those around you.
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.
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.
I’m in the US. I usually see a couple of people out with masks whenever I go out still.
I’ve noticed this a lot with both lemmy and Reddit. You have to go into any thread thinking about the kind of people that post is going to attract because it often times does not reflect the rest of the world
I see some tourists wear one in Amsterdam. Very rarely a local, of which I always assume they’re ill themselves or easily get ill (immunocompromised and what have you).
Only people in my country who still do this are Japanese tourists.
I think that’s just confirmation bias.
Also, side note, but how does an exception ever prove/confirm a rule? I hate that saying so much.
It’s a phrase used in a few different ways, but the main one is that if there’s a need to specify an exception, that indicates the existence of a general rule. Wikipedia gives the (good) example of a sign saying “No parking, Saturday 8.30am - 1.30am”. The fact that an exception has to be described for when parking is disallowed allows a driver to make the inference that parking is generally allowed.
I think EternalExplorer is saying that the degree to which people with masks stick out on the very rare occasions that you see them, the way they need to be specified as something other than the default, just makes it even more clear that the general case is that masks are now absent from public life in their city.
I carry one with me. If I see someone else wearing one, I’ll put it on. I’m not really worried about anything myself, but I’ll gladly wear a mask to give someone else peace of mind.
I love you
I wish everyone is like you. I don’t wear masks outdoors anymore, but I still do in places like malls where there are tons of strangers. They can get pretty uncomfortable, but if it helps me avoid covid, the flu, or even colds then I’m all for it.
If I feel under the weather and I must go out, I’ll wear a mask. Otherwise, no. Society at large has accepted the less dangerous variants as a fact of life.
During the pandemic I wore them everywhere. A large section of society showed they couldn’t be fucking bothered so here we are.
As a retail worker I was dealing with people without masks on day 1. People coughing in my direction, people being jackasses. Why are people like this?
My take is because people are largely selfish and ignorant beyond their day to day life. Their favorite politicians/personalities told them masks infringe upon their freedoms and they bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Once someone is convinced they’re right, no amount of evidence or information will sway them. Especially now since they have ready access to any echo chamber of their choice and it’s super easy to filter out dissenting information.
Masks infringe upon their freedom, until they are doing Fashy Marches through cities, then suddenly masks are A-OK and they have no trouble breathing in them.
Amazing how that works, innit?
I do. The number one “complaint” people had with me pre-pandemic was that I should smile more. Not one fucking dumbass person has told me to do that when I have my mask on. That alone is enough reason for me to never take it off when I’m dealing with customers.
I am also still paranoid and I don’t trust the average person out there to be doing safe things.
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.
That’s why I get all the boosters.
It’s LITERALLY a cold.
It LITERALLY isn’t.
SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped, single-stranded RNA virus from the coronavirus family, with a large genome. Its structure includes the spike protein that enables the virus to attach to and enter cells via the ACE2 receptor.
Rhinoviruses, on the other hand, belong to the Picornavirus family, and are non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses with a significantly smaller genome. Rhinoviruses attach to cells via the ICAM-1 receptor.
https://health.hawaii.gov/docd/disease_listing/coronaviruses/ It may be a mutation but it is a mutation of the common cold.
Nope.
If I’m sick or in a crowded space it kinda feels like common sense to me at this point tbh. Especially when sick, like I can’t fathom how I thought it was normal to just be sick and go out without a mask probably getting other people sick, even if it was just a cold.
Yes. I got covid in 2020 and am still a complete wreck. It really did a number on me in so many ways.
I try to do what I can to avoid getting even worse.
I do. I find it helps reduce common cold and cough infections. And i really will never stop wearing it when in a mall or any space with lots of strangers.
I still wear a mask but its the fact that others don’t think logically about this stuff still that has me most up in arms. Dad has been sick since weekend, mom says I’m going to come over to your house to see her grandkids. Mom comes over and 4 hours later they call me to tell me they both have covid and tested positive. Mom tells me that dad had been sick since weekend…in my head im fuming.
fingers crossed. Just hoping since she wasn’t sick, that our 1 hour visit will spare my fam somehow.
I wear one every day with only a few exceptions (lab work for university where it’s impractical and I’m only around a few people anyway). I have seen the effects of long Covid on my loved ones, and i want nothing to do with that. Still haven’t caught COVID this far in, and while I think my vaccinations have been effective it makes me uncomfortable that we aren’t continuing to boost and that most people haven’t had a fresh vaccine in a few years at this point. Waning efficacy is a real thing and many never got boosted at all
Yeah, like, there are plenty of people out there with long COVID. I have relatives with it. I have coworkers who are on leave because of it. About 5% of the US seems to have activity-limiting long COVID at any given time: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm
Shit’s bad.
Yowzers! I assumed 5%was “has ever experienced long COVID” or it would be heavily weighted toward older people or something. No, the numbers are a lot more evenly spread than I would’ve guessed, and the National average for CURRENTLY experiencing long COVID is like 6% or something… Wow…
It surprises me because I can’t think of anybody I know that complains of symptoms of long COVID, and I’m 38. It’s s not like my friends and family are all young , fit people who are too stubborn to show weakness. This data kinda shocks me.
I think that people are really hesitant to talk about when they’re having a hard time, never mind admit that they might be lumped into the ‘disabled’ bucket.
We’re, uh, not great about how we treat people w/disabilities in our society. Having something that is ‘supposed to happen to other people’ happen to you is rough.
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.
I don’t, and I feel super out of place now after reading the comments.
Yeah, this thread cannot be a representative sample of any population. I mean, I guess I would be surprised if “users of an open source, decentralized, federated link aggregator” was a representative sample of anything. Where I live, I see a couple people wearing masks per week, and I work with the public, I’m out all the time with friends, idk. I’d see masks if they existed in my area, so where I live they’re gone.
I do pretty much always. I don’t at the gym or in the (semi rare) instances i eat out. Shit’s not “over” and i have an immunocompromised friend i’d like to continue hanging out with.
I tend to wear one before I get on the London Underground, it’s grotty enough as it is, without the close confines and hordes of people.