All the time I have people come in to work wearing a mask, which is fine normally, good for them, but they are wearing them on their chin, chin diaper style. Not covering up anything. Or at best just their mouth, sometimes. Nobody is making these people wear a mask anymore, so why are they doing it at all if they are just going to do it wrong? Is it an attempt at a political statement? A lack of education? I end up baffled for a while every time I see one of these people.
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I honestly don’t understand why wearing a mask seem such a big deal for a lot of people.
From where I live, people wear masks are pretty common, when they are sick, when they go to congested locations (trains, buses), when they just don’t feel like wearing make up. And this is **BEFORE **COVID.
Now people just returned to normal circumstances, which is they wear mask when they feel the need to instead of everywhere.
Its good. It makes you less likely to get influenza. It makes people more comfortable in meetings because their saliva can’t fly into your face. It makes facial recognition more difficult. Its good for privacy.
It’s a big deal because Republicans lied about the severity of covid and made it a big deal. Only reason
Everyone’s different. Personally when I wear a mask I can’t see since it fogs up my glasses within a few seconds, and therefore I can’t really function as a normal human being. My partner can’t breathe properly while wearing a mask - which is even worse.
If you compound that with the fact that you’re wearing a mask because you’re sick… then the mask makes an already unpleasant day 10x worse.
For us - if the choice is wear a mask or stay home, we’ll both just stay home (or at least away from public indoor spaces). We did that all of last week. Cost thousands of dollars since we had to take unpaid leave from work - but we’d rather do that than wear a mask.
I’ve met people who are fine with, and seem to understand the reason for wearing a mask… but then in practice it’s “it makes it harder to breathe”, “my glasses fog up”, “I don’t feel like they understand me without seeing my mouth”… well, covering your mouth while
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A mask does make it harder to breath. I have ashma and I can only use certain masks and they have to be pretty fresh. Absolutely they make glasses fog especially so if you do not have certain coatings. Well and a good mask which is hard to find. For me some 3M masks fit well enough and are also designed so they do not seem to cause fogging as much. As far as understanding. Some people are very visual and less auditory. My wife is. So yes some people understand language better seeing the face. Say nothing about lip readers.
This is all true from my experience to some extent though it feels overblown at times and may well be. None of this prevents me from using a mask when needed for example.
It’s so surreal to see posts about masks and Covid.
I live in Denmark. At the beginning of last year, the government decided that Covid was no longer a critical threat, and all restrictions were removed on February 1st, 2022.
I have not seen a single mask since. I’ve heard Covid mentioned here maybe twice in the past year, with maybe one family I know getting infected in that period (that I know of…).
My wife and I were Team Restrictions, in the aggressively cautious (and scared) end of the spectrum. Two young daughters; those of you with kids (especially little ones) will probably know the crippling fear of losing your children.
Then one day the government decides it’s just over, we can’t be bothered with this anymore, and there was nothing we could do about it. Most of the country seemed very happy with the whole thing, certainly most people we know (and most of them had received our secret scorn for their borderline indifference to caution and protocol).
And then time passed, and some more time, and I went from checking in on the hardcore epidemiologists on Twitter daily — the ones constantly (and correctly!) pointing out that the decision to “cancel Covid” was insane, 100% political and in complete denial of the available data — to completely forgetting Covid happened.
2 years of hell, and for more than a year it’s been completely out of my thoughts. It’s absolutely mind-blowing. Especially since this is not the reality everywhere else. I don’t think about Covid anymore, at all, unless something like this post reminds me it’s still alive and kicking.
2 years of hell, and for more than a year it’s been completely out of my thoughts. It’s absolutely mind-blowing. Especially since this is not the reality everywhere else. I don’t think about Covid anymore, at all, unless something like this post reminds me it’s still alive and kicking.
It’s great that you get to live your life in ignorance, but people with autoimmune diseases, cancer, transplants, etc, don’t.
COVID can, and does, kill us. Not having an immune system is rough.
I think you’ve misunderstood my meaning. I wasn’t bragging, looking down my nose at the rest of the world who still has to deal with Covid. I was trying to convey:
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How messed up it is to live in a place where something like “cancelling Covid” can become a political decision, and
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How adept the human mind is at blocking out trauma.
A ridiculously high percentage of the population here was vaccinated, so at least that vector is dampened.
Personally, I do my best to still stay at home if I’m sick, keep my kids home if they’ve got the sniffles, and if we’re feeling particularly unwell, we get a Covid test, unlike the vast majority of the country. We haven’t tested positive in the past 2+ years.
There isn’t much else we can do. It’s not like we’re fighting a rag-tag group of anti-vaxx retards here. It’s the entire country. Almost everyone vaccinated, no masks or restrictions in sight for a year and a half. There’s no fight to be had.
I understand completely that being compromised sucks tremendously, which is one of the reasons we (my wife and I) took the restrictions extremely seriously, to the point where both our families rolled their eyes at us. And we didn’t give a fuck, we did our best to do what we thought was right, and we kept doing that for as long as it was doable.
I have no idea what the numbers are today, if people here are still dying. I doubt it, because people would talk about that, but I don’t know for sure. I was trying to convey what it’s like living in a post-pandemic society, even if it is so by choice.
I have no idea what the numbers are today, if people here are still dying. I doubt it,
The numbers are available. Official count (by the WHO) is a few hundred deaths a day globally and dozens of deaths per day in the EU.
Keep in mind those numbers are probably not accurate, since they’re coming from unreliable sources (I would think the EU number is more accurate than most of the world though).
Several months ago there was a wave that peaked at 41,000 deaths per day. We definitely need to keep a finger on the pulse incase another wave like that rises up. In the height of the pandemic restrictions the death rate was more like a hundred thousand deaths per day (and that wasn’t a peak of a single wave, it was around that high for a year).
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COVID can, and does, kill us.
Look, I get it, but there’s a big difference between a hundred thousand deaths per day and a couple hundred deaths per day which is where we are now with covid (according to the WHO).
Covid is nowhere near the highest risk anymore, even people who are especially vulnerable to it are far more likely to be killed by something else.
Doesn’t mean covid should be ignored but the precautions we took in recent years just aren’t necessary right now.
Probably nothing more interesting than being absent minded.
They pull them down when outdoors, then forget to pull them back up upon entering an enclosed space.
I would understand if they wore it on their chin outside or not near people and put it back up when inside or close or talking to people. Still good practice to do so if you’re sick and contagious. And fine to take a rest from wearing it outside.
Yeah, for sure, but I work inside and talk to people. A few people do it right at least.
Yesterday while grocery shopping two men walked by as I was contemplating bread choices. One of them was saying, “yeah, it’s ok, I’ve got the sore throat but I don’t have the rest of the Covid symptoms yet.”
At that moment I really wished both he and I (and everyone else in the store) were wearing masks.
If they are talking like that, they probably didn’t test. That being said, my whole family just went through a normal cold that the kids brought home from school, all tested negative… sigh
That makes it better, but I don’t want his normal cold, either. We all have a few masks lying around and tucked into pockets here and there these days. If one feels a cold coming on, toss a mask over your pie hole in public!
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We have one person in our office like this. He also only wears it occasionally!
I asked myself this often. I think it’s absentmindedness but I still find myself annoyed. Wear it or don’t but halfway just gets to me.
I’m sure it’s a mix of things. Some of it’s probably a lack of understanding, and sometimes it’s a “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” situation. They might have their mask on and ready to go for situations where they might want to mask up or where somebody else might want them to mask up… Or… Whatever. Maybe even some people take it off to talk (which is frustrating) because they think it’s easier to communicate that way and worth the risk to themselves and others and they’ll pull it back up after because it still does limit exposure overall? I dunno. Maybe I shouldn’t speculate too much. I guess I’ve been on the other side of this where a bunch of people were complaining about people wearing masks outside alone because it’s “stupid and pointless” and I’ve definitely done that when going between places because it was just easier to keep the thing on for me (especially since I try to have it fit really well).
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