I still wear mine.

Yes too, I've noticed more around lately.
On both young and older people.

Particularly in indoor settings.

How young is “young”?

under 30

I'm surprised actually how easily people settled back into pre-covid ways. I thought things like widespread mask wearing, avoiding shaking hands, people wary of mass events etc. might become the new normal

From my experience it's mainly just elderly people who do still wear masks. It's funny to think what a flashpoint it was during covid though. I remember at the start hardly anyone was wearing them, then almost everyone agreed with the compulsory mask policy and people who didn't wear one were looked down upon. Like I'm fairly sure you were quite a big advocate of mask wearing during the lockdowns LT. Most people were in fairness but now within two years they've come to be thought of as silly pointless things

If people want to wear masks, they will?

Yes, I think it was a sort of "we are all in this together" symbol and people felt i am doing my but but the reality of an airborne virus is that as a method of stopping the spread its pretty pointless and the on going science supports this

I remember thinking when wearing a mask and passing a random lady and immediately being able to smell her perfume that they aint stopping a virus lol

Yeah staff and pupils had to wear masks in and around school and you could still smell the canteen food and toast in the staffrooms ..


I recall a microbiologist on the telly saying that the main thing was hygiene ( hands / surfaces ) and he said wearing those disposable masks was the equivalent of closing the farm gates to try and keep the ANTS out ..


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Yes, two girls walk separately past my front window every day, wearing masks.

Both aged about 20-25.

I still wear a mask more times than not but that’s just me. But I’d hardly call them silly, pointless things.

Doesn’t it depend on the type / quality ?


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People seem to forget that there are a lot of vulnerable people in the country that are scared stiff of getting covid. If putting on a mask gives them the courage to step out and about, i'm all for it

When the mask mandate first came in they still weren't sure if it was airborne or more likely to be spread by droplets.

Also... Still being able to smell smells is really not how it works at all. For example, HEPA air filtration -does-effectively remove virus particles (including Covid) from air but will do nothing to remove smell. Airborne Virus particles are MUCH bigger than "smell particles" and sense of smell is ridiculously sensitive (even for humans) so only a tiny number of molecules need to get through for you to smell something. You need to get a decent "dose" of a virus to catch it. You can actually breathe in a fair amount of Covid virus particles without getting Covid unless you have a compromised immune system.

Masks are definitely effective against tonnes of airborne viruses if worn properly, it just took them a while to discover that they're not with Covid. Different viruses are different "sizes".

Also... Most people don't wear masks properly and they're not properly fitted. If there are gaps at the sides or around the nose then it's obviously pretty pointless... And from what I remember, most peoples were barely on their face :joker:.

Under the nose wearers were the worst

I saw an ortho doctor at the hospital who had it loosely flapping around his face like barely touching his top lip. I found it really irritating.

Not even in an "Oh no, Covid" way - it was just visually infuriating. Either have a mask on, or don't! I would have rather he just took the thing off completely. Watching it flap around on his chin for 15 minutes was torture.

Not really. Masks are masks.

I’m just a cautious and fairly reserved sort of person so sometimes masks set up an extra boundary that makes it clear that unless you initiate the conversation you’re not really out here for conversations with random strangers and just want to be about your business and mean it. Coupled with the fact that Covid’s still out there and I work with vulnerable people at the moment it just makes sense to wear one (and they just happen to be the standard blue ones you see in ozzies). Beyond that I literally couldn’t care less about the “type/quality.” It don’t exactly matter, does it?

People who wear spec’s, to be fair, have no choice but to wear them under the nose. Otherwise all the air they breathe vapourises onto their glasses and clouds their vision.

Covids on the rise again. 12 percent increase in hospital admissions in 1 week.

https://youtu.be/qrYj5VJKLIs

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I really wish people were more about this drug (fluvoxamine). It’s an antidepressant that’s especially effective for o.c.d. (it’s no clomipramine but as far as the SSRIs on their own go it’s pretty anti-o.c.d. and does work reasonably well, at least to start with) but also reduces the overall morbidity of Covid and chance of death that can come with it.

Touch wood, I never got it nor was I vaccinated.

Well presumably you’ve had it but were part of the 33% who contracted the virus but showed no symptoms


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Yes all the time on the high street and in supermarkets.We still regularly have people come into our office wearing them for a 2 hour appointment, in which case we offer to put on masks too- i think if people have very young children or vunerable elderley relatives they are still cautious. All Taxi drivers in our area still wear them and they are still compulsory at our local Doctors surgey and hospitals.

are you aware they are ineffective?

it is similar to wearing leggings

I don't wear them out of choice myself, I was just commenting on what other people do as per the thread question. I only wear them out of respect and if requested by our clients/ taxi drivers/ hospitals etc. Don't fancy getting sacked/ refused entry because I'm not wearing a mask :laugh2:

Just the CYT.

I've no idea. Maybe you're right.

Regarding the vaccine, I was more afraid of that and what it might do to me than I was of Covid.

I'll never forget the people who died from the vaccine who didn't need it. :(