Current Events > Do you still wear a facemask?

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TheSuperSilver posted...

Even the hospitals where I work finally, finally no longer require them.

Which is stupid and dangerous. That where the most vulnerable people have to be.

TheSuperSilver posted...

Get vaccinated and get over it.

Vaccinations help but vaccinated people can still be damaged. Some still die, long Covid is a thing. There are various studies pointing to possible really bad stuff for getting Covid and every infection will make it worse. There's still a lot we don't know. But it's not benign.

Sir_Will posted...

Which is stupid and dangerous. That where the most vulnerable people have to be.

Vaccinations help but vaccinated people can still be damaged. Some still die, long Covid is a thing. There are various studies pointing to possible really bad stuff for getting Covid and every infection will make it worse. There's still a lot we don't know. But it's not benign.

People wouldn't wear them anyways. Plastered all around the hospital grounds at my hospital are no smoking signs, and clearly you can see cigarette butts, not to mention people smoking without a care and security doing nothing about it. Hell, there were people smoking right outside the Cancer center.

Outdoors: never

Indoors: Depends on the place. Any type of store I usually still do (although if I'm running in and out quick I don't), I also still do on any type of mass transit like planes or subways because mass transit is gross, but if I'm going out to a bar with friends or something, then no.

I've gotten every booster I've been eligible for and over 3+ years, I think I've only had COVID once (last October after a wedding). Even then, I tested negative, so it might've been the flu.

Yes, whenver I have to be in crowded spaces for a long time.

whateveroh posted...

The mask is supposed to protect other people from you if you're sick, not the other way around.

Still gonna wear it.

I'm never taking this thing off in public again. Haven't gotten a cold or flu in years and it's the bomb.

Yeah since I take the bus constantly. Though admittedly part of it is because I like hiding my face

It's makes my lips and cheeks dry less during the colder months, also I think I look better with it. So I just keep it on.

If I'm going to something like a crowded movie theater, then yes. But not if I'm outdoors or it's not something where I'm expecting lots of people.

TheSuperSilver posted...

Only if it's required. Otherwise, hell no.

Even the hospitals where I work finally, finally no longer require them. Get vaccinated and get over it.

I feel like masks and sani-stations in hospitals should stay a thing.

LinkPizza posted...

Companies themselves can still make rules

I'm talking about laws but sure be condescending for no reason

No

Unless it is the policy of the establishment I am currently in. Which rarely happens these days, that said regardless of what I think is the most accurate data of the utility of the masks I do think businesses are allowed to chose their own policy and I would respect that policy.

I also don't judge or disapprove of those who still chose to wear masks even if I think the evidence is not on their side particularly due to the recent cochrane review:
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

But there has been far too much "I'M RIGHT AND EVERYBODY WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS DUMB/EVIL." In this whole thing, and I don't believe in that mindset personally.

I do think an individual gets to pick that kind of thing. Generally I'd say the same thing is true for businesses, though I do dislike when I see things on tv or other environments where "the talent" doesn't wear a mask, but all the "help" staff does. That to me, IMO, cannot be based on any good faith scientific conclusion and to me feels like just icky shitty classism for classism's sake.

I've seen similar things elsewhere, where cleaning staff has to wear masks but the white collar employees don't. I don't like things like that.

But aside from that, I'm pretty live and let live on an individual level about other's choices around mask wearing.

Sexypwnstar posted...

Do you wear it even if an establishment says it's required?

Of course

I never wore them outside but I always did when I went indoors anywhere.

However these days, I only put one on if I am going on public transport or into the doctors or a hospital.

hmm...

Only when in certain patient rooms, oncology, neutropenic, etc

party_animal07 posted...

I feel like masks and sani-stations in hospitals should stay a thing.

Hospitals in my city no longer require them either now (pretty sure even as an employee in some cases). Only place I can think that I've seen them still required is the long term care facilities and nursing homes

Choco posted...

I'm talking about laws but sure be condescending for no reason

How am I being condescending? Im just saying that companies make up their own rules. Like the other poster said, there was a point where not wearing them became accepted. If you still had to wear then on public transportation recently, it was probably the company rule instead of an actual law

LinkPizza posted...

If you still had to wear then on public transportation recently, it was probably the company rule instead of an actual law

yeah i'm sure some random internet guy who claims he's not being condescending and doesn't know where i even live would know the local laws better than i do

jfc

Idc anymore tbh

Choco posted...

yeah i'm sure some random internet guy who claims he's not being condescending and doesn't know where i even live would know the local laws better than i do

jfc

When did I say I know the laws. And please tell me how Im being condescending. Im saying that bus companies can make their own rules. I know that because I worked in public transportation. And I never said I knew the laws. Im saying that maybe thats the reason. Im just trying to have a normal conversation, and youre acting like kind of an ass Jeez Ive been trying to just be nice where youve been mean and condescending the whole time