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    I carry one with me. If I see someone else wearing one, I’ll put it on. I’m not really worried about anything myself, but I’ll gladly wear a mask to give someone else peace of mind.

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      I wish everyone is like you. I don’t wear masks outdoors anymore, but I still do in places like malls where there are tons of strangers. They can get pretty uncomfortable, but if it helps me avoid covid, the flu, or even colds then I’m all for it.

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    If I’m feeling sick, or my family is, I will wear one to work, the whole point of them is to minimize spread of disease.

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    This thread is an interesting “filter bubble” experience. Here, a city in central europe, nobody I know wears one anymore, even those who were always extra-careful on the cautious side. Basically nobody in stores wears one nor in public transport. Yeah, on occasion you find 1-2 exceptions that confirm the rule.

    Probably, this thread is largely visited by those who still do, and ignored by those who don’t.

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      I’m in the US and I don’t know the last time I saw someone wearing a mask outside of a medical setting. Most still don’t even then.

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      I’ve noticed this a lot with both lemmy and Reddit. You have to go into any thread thinking about the kind of people that post is going to attract because it often times does not reflect the rest of the world

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      I see some tourists wear one in Amsterdam. Very rarely a local, of which I always assume they’re ill themselves or easily get ill (immunocompromised and what have you).

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      I think that’s just confirmation bias.

      Also, side note, but how does an exception ever prove/confirm a rule? I hate that saying so much.

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        It’s a phrase used in a few different ways, but the main one is that if there’s a need to specify an exception, that indicates the existence of a general rule. Wikipedia gives the (good) example of a sign saying “No parking, Saturday 8.30am - 1.30am”. The fact that an exception has to be described for when parking is disallowed allows a driver to make the inference that parking is generally allowed.

        I think EternalExplorer is saying that the degree to which people with masks stick out on the very rare occasions that you see them, the way they need to be specified as something other than the default, just makes it even more clear that the general case is that masks are now absent from public life in their city.

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    If I feel under the weather and I must go out, I’ll wear a mask. Otherwise, no. Society at large has accepted the less dangerous variants as a fact of life.

    During the pandemic I wore them everywhere. A large section of society showed they couldn’t be fucking bothered so here we are.

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      As a retail worker I was dealing with people without masks on day 1. People coughing in my direction, people being jackasses. Why are people like this?

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        My take is because people are largely selfish and ignorant beyond their day to day life. Their favorite politicians/personalities told them masks infringe upon their freedoms and they bought it hook, line, and sinker.

        Once someone is convinced they’re right, no amount of evidence or information will sway them. Especially now since they have ready access to any echo chamber of their choice and it’s super easy to filter out dissenting information.

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          Masks infringe upon their freedom, until they are doing Fashy Marches through cities, then suddenly masks are A-OK and they have no trouble breathing in them.

          Amazing how that works, innit?

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    I do. The number one “complaint” people had with me pre-pandemic was that I should smile more. Not one fucking dumbass person has told me to do that when I have my mask on. That alone is enough reason for me to never take it off when I’m dealing with customers.

    I am also still paranoid and I don’t trust the average person out there to be doing safe things.

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    Indoors in public, all the time.

    I don’t want to catch COVID again if I can help it. It’s a shitty, dangerous virus.

    TBH, I don’t think most people understand that it’s not just a bad cold–it’s a virus that attacks your vascular system that also does some nasty respiratory stuff. The increased risks of heart attacks and strokes after even a mild infection are not great, and if you’re getting infected every year, you’re permanently carrying that elevated risk.

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    We all wear masks…metaphorically speaking, we suppress the id, our darkest desires, and adopt a more socially acceptable image.

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    I do. I find it helps reduce common cold and cough infections. And i really will never stop wearing it when in a mall or any space with lots of strangers.

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    If I’m sick or in a crowded space it kinda feels like common sense to me at this point tbh. Especially when sick, like I can’t fathom how I thought it was normal to just be sick and go out without a mask probably getting other people sick, even if it was just a cold.

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    Everytime I go grocery shopping I will also be wearing a mask. I am kind of baffled by people who seem to think that corona has poofed out of existence.

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      Out of sight out of mind. Hahaha

      Masks are good for everybody though. Even the percentage of getting infected by common airborne illnesses can be reduced by a simple mask.

      And also if you are ill, it protects others from you.

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      It still exists but the main problem is solved. Hospitals arent full, the virus mutated to much less deadly variants and the majority of people is immunized. Right now, Corona is just another flu. Sure its not nice but the average joe will get it now and then.

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        Good points, aside from equating COVID to the flu. Even with hospitals at normal census, the less deadly variants, and the vaccines, COVID is still less understood than the flu. Long-COVID, for example, is a serious problem, where as influenza rarely (if ever) has such lasting issues.

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        To add to this outstanding display of rationalism. The vaccines are waaay more effective at preventing COVID than masks will ever be. Dump the mask (if you are a healthy adult) and get boosted!

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      Same. Grocery, public transit, doctors office, cabs. I’ll also add public restrooms, although if Coronavirus disappeared tomorrow, I’d still probably mask up in public bathrooms. I don’t need to go back to inhaling that experience directly.

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    Yes. I got covid in 2020 and am still a complete wreck. It really did a number on me in so many ways.

    I try to do what I can to avoid getting even worse.

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      Yeah, this thread cannot be a representative sample of any population. I mean, I guess I would be surprised if “users of an open source, decentralized, federated link aggregator” was a representative sample of anything. Where I live, I see a couple people wearing masks per week, and I work with the public, I’m out all the time with friends, idk. I’d see masks if they existed in my area, so where I live they’re gone.

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    I still wear a mask but its the fact that others don’t think logically about this stuff still that has me most up in arms. Dad has been sick since weekend, mom says I’m going to come over to your house to see her grandkids. Mom comes over and 4 hours later they call me to tell me they both have covid and tested positive. Mom tells me that dad had been sick since weekend…in my head im fuming.

    fingers crossed. Just hoping since she wasn’t sick, that our 1 hour visit will spare my fam somehow.

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    I tend to wear one before I get on the London Underground, it’s grotty enough as it is, without the close confines and hordes of people.