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.

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Would you prefer “petri dish”? How 'bout “Nurglite”? There’s two immunocompromised people in my house, and a dozen in my personal orbit. Three of them have ALREADY been to the hospital over COVID. SEVEN OF THEM, MYSELF INCLUDED, have dealt with Long COVID symptoms after our infections passed.

    I am beyond camaraderie or even so much as friendship, with anyone who’d further jeopardize the health and safety of my family. Plague. Rats. I’ll cross the street in front of you in public if I don’t see a mask on you, with the dirtiest look as I go by.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
        108·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think calling the vast majority of people rats is as good of a look as you think it is,

        You obviously don’t know me then, I don’t give the first fuck about optics in the eyes of crackers. I care about protecting the people I chose; and those who willingly carry pathogens and plagues in their faces are a tacit danger to me and my family.

        I hope you have to live with the kind of lung scarring that my partner has to because crackers in my where wouldn’t mask. I hope you have to live with the kind of brainfog that my grandfather has to exist in if he tries to exert himself in the ways he used to before the pandemic.

        I curse you with that.