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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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’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’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 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.
In closed spaces of close quarters with other people. Over a million Americans aren’t here anymore, I’ll take a lesson from that.
I mainly avoid doing anything with any appreciable covid risk. If I can’t, like, if I have to go to a doctor, in person, then I will wear a mask. Turns out I still think giving people brain damage is a morally bad thing to do. And if you do any basic modelling of virus spread, any one infection becomes the ancestor of many thousands of cases in the first two years. From there you just apply the long covid rates and death rates, which shows trivially that spreading covid is morally equivalent to killing people, and maiming hundreds of people. So I do whatever I can to avoid that, including masks where appropriate, but more importantly, avoiding situations where you even have to mask. In my view each individual’s right to go to a restaurant or whatever does not outweigh the consequences of covid spread (before you even factor mutation in). Of course, I realize this won’t solve anything at a societal/global level. But individual morality is still a thing in my view.
If I’m on public transport, crowded public area, feeling off colour
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
If i’m sick or on a long flight.
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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.
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 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.
