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:

  1. Do you still wear a mask or not and why? And do you have distinctions like large crowds or anything like that?

  2. 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.

  • Ivysaur [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Hey all you saying you don’t mask anymore: thanks for contributing to the deaths of millions of people like me, a disabled person who doesn’t get a choice. Hope it’s worth it. Fuck you.

    • Ivysaur [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 days ago

      “Nobody’s doing it so why would I” are the words of liberalism. Kill it or die with it. How dare any of you call yourselves my “comrades”.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 days ago

        Kill it or die with it. How dare any of you call yourselves my “comrades”.

        Facts. This is the only energy I accept regarding COVID and how to handle it; otherwise you and I are not comrades.

        If you’re really out here like “wuhhhh no one else is dealing with it so why should I”, if you’re really out here like “it’s a style choice at this point”, if you’re really out here like “but i need to see faces for 2% of my interactions in a day how dare you interfere with my liberty”, then how the FUCK am I supposed to trust that when the pigs are goosestepping down the street with M4s at port ready over their chests, that when there’s Humvees convoying down the streets of my hood, that when the Second Night of Long Knives happens, that you’d have the discipline to be of ANY FUCKING USE?

      • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 days ago

        Its unrealistic to expect people to mask forever, I hated wearing them and I worked in disease control during the pandemic; I still wore one everyday but it was a relief to not have to do it anymore.

        Dont take your anger out on us, its the fault of the govs that basically threw the country to the wolves with there ineffective measures, underfunded healthcare systems and a black hole to fall down if you’re disabled and cant work.

          • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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            7 days ago

            Im disabled too, all of our lives are at risk, they came in hostile, im asking them not to generalize with respect.

            Il wear masks if waves start coming around again, its not something I want to do be doing when there arent infectious varients going around and I think its a reasonable middle ground.

            • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              7 days ago

              I don’t see why that gives you the right to tone police and concern troll a person who has a legitimate fear of death. I think a better answer would be compassion for her.

              • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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                7 days ago

                I don’t see why that gives you the right to tone police and concern troll a person who has a legitimate fear of death.

                Coming in telling half the thread to fuck off isnt the best way to start, regardless nothing im doing is concern trolling or tone policing and compassion goes both ways; I have sympathy for how they feel and would and have acted to prevent the spread of it as much as I could when it was a serious threat.

                Its a restriction to liberty having to mask everyday, I rely on lipreading to understand what people are saying; when everyones masked I genuinally cannot understand 90% of verbal communication, its hell for me; expressing this shouldnt be shouted down or have people brigade me,

        • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 days ago

          “capitalist governments won’t do this thing to protect my community so why should i?” - allegedly a communist

          • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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            7 days ago

            I was on the frontline for the entire covid pandemic, me not masking when there arent varients in my local area going around at the moment didnt cause the systemic issues they are frustrated about.