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.
I stopped a while ago, I hate that I did, but I can’t stop a widespread pandemic on my own and it feels pointless now after all these years of nobody else giving a shit, being the only person in a crowd who ever masks for years feels so demoralizing and I just couldn’t keep doing it
What’s even the point if my family doesn’t mask anyway? Even from the very start, they would always do as much as possible to avoid wearing them, and two months ago I caught COVID from them and I think it’s left me with Long COVID, even masking in public wouldn’t have done anything about it
Like it’s not like I’m going out in public while actively having COVID, but masking at all times just isn’t working for me anymore
No personal choice on my part could ever come close to making up for the systemic collapse of disease control that was deliberately engineered by the most powerful people in the world
I’m sorry you got long covid. :( I can relate on the getting infected most likely due to others. The family members I was living with was good about it for a while and we’d avoided infection afaik and then another came in who wasn’t so good about it and it was late in, post-vaccine too, so all the harder to argue the importance of it and we all got infected at one point. Don’t think any of us got long covid, but it’s that thing where all it takes sometimes is one person to be selfish about it. It’s very frustrating.