Basically, wanted to know where people are at with mask wearing (as it relates to containing covid and all), I know it’s been a while since it started. And I’ve seen people who say covid can still be threatening, like through long covid and such, even if the initial impact doesn’t tend to be as bad. Being in the US, it’s especially hard to tell what makes sense because the gov sorta gave up on containment a while back and only ever half-assed pushing mask wearing. And wearing a mask alone was a controversial thing in some places, even in the very beginning. Then there’s vaccines, which of course help, but seems to be a thing like the flu where you have to get boosters to be fully covered for variant strains.
So in general, I’m wondering stuff like:
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Do you still wear a mask or not and why? And do you have distinctions like large crowds or anything like that?
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How does mask wearing compare by country, from what you know? For example, I’m sure China has a more pro-mask-wearing culture and policy overall, but I’m not clear on where they’re at this late into it.
Partly asking cause I want to re-assess my own position on it, see if it makes sense to change it at all by now. I’ve still been doing it, in part out of inertia, but the US management of it is such a mess, in gov and culture, it’s hard to tell when it makes sense to stop vs. just caving to peer pressure of people who were never acting responsibly to begin with.
Rarely if ever now. Nobody else does it here, and I feel uncomfortable (both a tiny bit physically, but moreso socially) when I wear it as such. Like I’m reminding people of it honestly- and as a visible minority (Asian) that adds to it.
Admittedly also- the effort isn’t worth it, not for the society-at-large here (which has abandoned masks, but which also is a Anglo settler-hellhole country I feel considerably alienated from at this point for many reasons). If the rest of society here wants to let it all burn down- well, I have those I care about and would try to help decent people- but I say let it burn. Not like I see things feasibly changing for the better here in the imperial cores anytime soon, so honestly the world would probably be a better place without this country (whether it be the govt. or the settler-mentality culture). Letting it burn will be progress one way or another, either positive change can come of it or the beast of empire can continue its spiral straight to hell, far be it from me to stop it from doing so. The west’s loss is the rest of the world’s, and humanity’s, win (not because it’s inherently so, but because the imperialist mentality and regimes make it so), that’s just how it is right now and how it has been for the past 500 years, I suppose.
Can def understand the risk more so in drawing attention under those circumstances.
Yeah. Honestly I actually would normally like wearing the mask (I like hiding my face, admittedly). But the social climate of covid (and that has continued ever since) was honestly incredibly… alienating and strenuous, as an Asian-Canadian.
If people want to forget it some- at least socially it’s a plus for my personal experience, even if it’s a bad thing otherwise. No more funny looks, less hyper-awareness, yellow peril is still going strong in the media and the majority of people here are probably delusional AF if the subject of China gets brought up but they’re not going around with that hate on their minds 24/7.