Will you continue to wear your mask when they are optional?

AyeGer

Yes in all situations.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118679983#Comment_118679983

He's just a troll, best ignored.

No

I remember how many of us felt at the beginning of the pandemic. We hadn't a clue what was coming or how we would be impacted. We handled ourselves in different ways. There were things I learnt about myself and not all were good, there were things I learnt about others and not all were good.

As the weeks turned in to months the divisions among some of us became apparent and the increase in extreme views. Here we are again only this time we are at the end.

Instead of wondering who to contact to report a person who dares to go beyond 5k or referring to the elderly as 'coffin dodgers', we are ridiculing people who choose to wear masks and believing those who won't to be selfish and inconsiderate.

The more I read posts here and the more I reflect on my own stance the stronger I come back around to 'you do you'.

CalamariFritti

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118682312#Comment_118682312

I agree with you on that and I wouldn't do it.

But whether you like the attribute of 'social conditioning' or not its a very real thing. Its not a negative attribute even though you seem to have picked it up that way. We all are socially conditioned. Its how we fit into the society that surrounds us.

But that doesn't mean that all of our social conditioning is rational or that its parameters don't change over time and that we all look at those equally. I'm sure you know what I mean. There was really no need to pick it up as an insult or as condescension.

Manach

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

Yes for the next month or so. One does not need a government law to be socially responsbile.

Dakota Dan

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118682442#Comment_118682442

Really?

DLink

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118683538#Comment_118683538

Did you wear masks in public before covid became a "thing", or did the law change your mind?

Macy0161

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

I trust scientists who are qualified, and the evidence is they did help to reduce transmission of airborne viruses (even homemade ones) to some degree*. That's evidence rather than "case numbers are x so they clearly don't work". A lot of the strategies were to slow, rather than necessarily stop, the spread.

Going forward - wearing a mask (or not) shouldn't be viewed through the extreme lenses we have at play at the moment. If I'm smothered with a "normal" cold, it's completely legitimate for me to wear a mask and potentially stop others getting it. If I don't want to catch any cold or virus on the dart, it's completely legitimate for me to wear a mask to mitigate it. It is 100% not me making any statement.

It would be a massive benefit for everyone, if people that are coughing and spluttering continued to exercise the same hygiene we've been told about the last two years. Just because it's good hygiene! And also, work remotely if you can rather than sit at a desk/ dart beside me thanks. Not because I'm fearful of catching something, just I could do without a couple of days feeling like crap.

It's going to become a personal choice - can people not just respect others personal choice.

*I don't need links etc. thanks - I trust actual peer review science on this, and in general.

SnuggyBear

No

Can't wait to see some bare faces around the shops on Monday. It will be interesting to see how many will keep wearing them. There are the odd mask weirdos but a lot of people wear them for anomity I think. I've seen people walk around outside with a mask on and a hat pulled down and sunglasses on 😂

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118683594#Comment_118683594

Definitely, say if you wore a nappy when you start piddling you wouldn’t piddle all over anyone else except yourself.

Ceepo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684420#Comment_118684420

How is that relevant? It doesn't compare to the vast majority of people wearing a cloth mask oran improper fitting mask even surgical mask.

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684577#Comment_118684577

A nappy leaks also if fitted incorrectly.

whisky_galore

No

Nope, sick of wearing them. Good riddance.

Ceepo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684087#Comment_118684087

The peer reviewed Bangladesh study of 600 villages, found no benefits from a cloth mask and around 9% with a surgical mask. Or in real numbers 1086 in the mask group and 1106 in the unmasked group. This could also be attribute to the number that responded 170,000 and 150,00 respectively.

Or the Danish study of approximately 6000 people which showed a 1.8% chance in the masked (surgical) and 2.1 in the unmasked group's respectively or 0.3% difference between masked and unmasked group.

Both of these studies are peer reviewed and RTC.

Hardly statistically different.

One problem that no one seems to have brought up regarding mask wearing and how it might actually harm more people is, if you believe that mask offers good protection they migh be more likely to put themselves into a crowed situation and believe the mask will protect them.

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684127#Comment_118684127

I think it’ll be interesting too. I think we might be surprised by how many people are zcontinue to wear them in crowded places. I can’t wait to ditch them but I think work are going to make me wear one for a while yet.

Lumen

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684966#Comment_118684966

That's hardly surprising since neither of those "masks" actually filter the air.

I don't know whether any similar studies have been done on N95 masks, but probably not in Bangladeshi villages for obvious reasons.

Macy0161

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

Don't want the links, get them anyway... I've made my own call on the sources I trust - You won't convince me, I won't convince you - no need to get into circular argument. Unnecessary now anyway, given it's being left to a personal decision now (or shortly), and hasn't (the same as every other restriction) been permanent.

Ceepo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118685072#Comment_118685072

The Bangladesh study was carried out from professor's from Stafford and Yale University.

It's also very rare to see people walking around with filter masks. I'd say cloth then surgical with the odd few N95 are the most common used at least in my local area,

Some people hold very strong views on something that has very weak evidence that they provide any benefits.

Dakota Dan

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684420#Comment_118684420

A nappy is filled with absorption material unlike a face mask, put both under a running tap and see which one leaks first even though I’d hope that your reply wasn’t serious.

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118685468#Comment_118685468

I hope yours certainly isn’t anyway. I wasn’t suggesting you had incontinence issues I was merely demonstrating a simile

Ceepo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118685188#Comment_118685188

I didn't provide any links. I simply provided the information that both RCT studies came too.

And I'm also not trying to persuade anyone. Why would I.

Sure if you some people disagree even when presented with RTC, there wouldn't be any point in trying to convince them.

marieholmfan

If I have a cold and if requested.

bucketybuck

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118684420#Comment_118684420

What if you are pissing through some normal cotton underwear?

Gant21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118685825#Comment_118685825

You’re definitely extracting the urine anyway.

Sunny Dayz

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

My understanding is that it just won't be mandatory under law to wear a face mask in certain places. But that places could still request that you wear a facemask in their store/ restaurant for wellbeing of their employees and other customers. My understanding is that it would be still advisable to wear face masks as before.

I've not been required to wear a face mask too much in my day to day life - I'm not required to wear one in work (office, not open to public, large room with social distancing and windows open), and much of my socialising is at friends houses or outdoors, as a lot of it was pre-covid anyway. But I'll probably continue to wear it in shops etc for the foreseeable anyway.

is_that_so

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118686036#Comment_118686036

But that places could still request that you wear a facemask in their store/ restaurant for wellbeing of their employees and other customers.

I doubt there will be many of those, especially as it will affect business. Even if they do exist it'll be short term.

Tom Mann Centuria

Yes in all situations.

Yes I will wear mine when out and about until numbers go down and there isn't wards full of covid positive patients in the hospital. Doesn't matter how well or otherwise these patients are, the fact they are positive blocks those beds for anyone who doesn't have covid. So yeah, probably p*ssing in the wind reading a lot of the comments here but that's what I intend to do.

Straight Talker

Yes in all situations.

As long as there is daily case numbers of well over one thousand, then yes i will continue to wear my mask. Everyone is acting like it's over, but the virus is still in circulation! I do have basic consideration for myself and the people around me.

BruteStock

After I paid for my messages in Dunnes , I removed my mask for the remainder of my commute towards the exit. I received a few looks as if I was Gollum and one shake of the head. . This was as I was almost out the door.

If you're going to go mask less , particularly in Dunnes or similar , expect to be looked at as if you are a monster.

xhomelezz

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118687046#Comment_118687046

Looks like you are a slow walker.

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

Yes.

While I'm in Ireland, I live with my parents who are in their 70s. It makes sense to take extra care for their sake, and quite honestly, the idea that I might bring home covid to them, is not one I want to live with. Far easier to wear a mask around others.

As for the people who seem to think covid is over, it's not. There will be other strains, and they could easily be worse than what we've experienced so far. I understand the desire to get on with your lives, but I think it depends on your own personal circumstances. If you're concerned about others who are vulnerable, wear the mask. If you don't spend time around those who are vulnerable, don't.

I don't feel any judgment over those who don't wear a mask, as long as they respect my personal space. Alas there seems to be a growing number of people who feel the need to push those boundaries, disrespecting others desires to remain apart.