I wear a mask but I’m basically the only one I know. And the people I live with don’t wear one at all so I am 100% confident my wearing it is literally pointless.
I see some people outside with masks but it’s those disposable/surgical ones that we know don’t do shit against covid. At that point just don’t wear one lol. I don’t know even if N95 is good enough now but it’s the one I wear.
I never stopped wearing a mask when going out in public anywhere there’s going to be people within 10 feet of me, so pretty much everywhere that isn’t like the local park.
it’s not at all an inconvenience to wear a mask and I personally haven’t been sick at all in like 2 years.
I wear masks in shared indoor spaces (like stores and stuff), but not just when walking around outside, unless it’s particularly crowded (I’ll put a mask on if I’m walking past a bus stop or whatever).
That sounds like a reasonable middle ground to me. How’s it going for you so far?
I’ve had two colds* in the last two years, and no covid. One cold came from my one friend who’s a disaster. The other cold was a total mystery, and may actually have been from outdoor transmission.
*Things that present as cold-like symptoms for 3-5 days, not necessarily the common cold. Could be an actual cold, the flu, unnamed crud, covid but my tests went false-negative, allergies. I dunno.
I’ve never felt it was wise to place my safety in the consensus of the general public, or even my chuddish family for that matter. This goes both ways of course, I was arrested for exploding firecrackers in a welding-gloved hand and laughing my ass off.
My S.O. and I are old and high risk for death and the more I learn about long covid the more I’m convinced that it’s literally a death sentence for us. We mask up, don’t go out and even order our meager groceries for delivery now.
One of those “if your friend jumped off a cliff” conundrums.
We mask up, don’t go out and even order our meager groceries for delivery now.
If everyone did this for two months the world would be cured of the OG strain and no variants would’ve ever evolved.
I’ve stayed masking since the beginning and don’t really go to crowded places, especially indoors. I’ve managed to dodge covid AFAIK, though I’ve probably been getting microdosed the entire time. At the very least I’ve not had a breakthrough case, nor have I really been sick since the start of the pandemic.
Seeing all the comrades here who stayed masked up makes me wish we all lived together in a Comrade City Commune instead of this chudhole.
So odd going from hexbear & other on and offline leftist communities/organizations to the greater outside world and seeing that far too many people just could not give a single shit about another person outside their immediate family. Not only w/r/t covid, but just general human empathy…
I wear masks pretty much everywhere, only one who does. I go about a month in between seeing other folks wear a mask and that’s usually an old guy at the store.
