To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

Forgetting it is a pain in the hole too. Thankfully every time I forgot it for the shop in the last month I just didnt bother with it.

Well rid of them next Monday.

Yeah you guys definitely would love that carry on. Make sure to wheeze heavily, maybe pant.

That’s the funny thing about masks …. Walk into a dirty pub toilet over the last 18 months with the aul mask on . BANG…. The whiff of toilet substances is the same with or without a mask. Begs the question, if masks can’t impede smells how can they impede tiny covid particles?

Anyways we are officially back to reality and normality thank god in 5 days and counting thankfully.

Just 486* fines have been issued for the non wearing of face coverings since becoming mandatory in 2020.

That's less than one per day.

Was it in part the unwillingness to enforce the legislation that has brought us to this point of abandonment?

Does the legislation need amending? Do the 4E's of explain, educate, encourage and enforcing need to be scrapped.

After all mandatory masking will have to return soon and it will need to be enforced with a vigor.

I just know people are already reading this like it's being written by an angry incel simp [buzzwords], but please don't take it that way. Masks are going, my own view on them doesn't matter, I will continue to wear one but don't expect others to. However, there are always 2 sides, so taking your reply:

The get extremely uncomfortable in warm conditions. - I quickly bought one that was far more comfortable, you wouldn't even know you're wearing it. But this is a personal thing.

Constant fogging of glasses - easily resolved with proper wearing.

I want to see other humans' faces - not everyone does

I find it hard to hear what others are saying at times - they should speak up more because they're wearing a mask.

Look, I get it, most people are sick of them, never wanted them, don't believe the science and think they were pointless. We're beyond trying to educate, it's back into the "normal" and nothing can be done about it until the next outbreak, because there will be more. Not necessarily covid, and possibly not again for a while, but it will happen.

Anyway, what I, and I'm sure people who will be continuing to wear masks, want is for everyone else to respect our choice to wear one, and maybe if you're in a queue in a shop (not pub/club/etc) and someone is wearing one, don't stand on top of them, give them a little bit more space. People are already queuing in my back pocket again, I didn't like it before and really don't like it now. But it's really not much to just give a little bit more space. That's all. Nothing else going forward. Just a little bit of extra space. I won't hold my breath.

It is recommended that you do wear a mask. Like you also wear shoes. Will you be ditching your shoes as well?

Tbf anyone who is so obsessed so as to continously go on at length non stop about masks like as in this thread - then that's definitely a lot more concerning.

Pat Kenny? Who? Just turn off the radio ffs. Probably best to let it go, most everyone else already has.

I think that's just more of the same spiel there kaiser. And bizarrely the main complaining in this thread atm seems to be about what a small number believe what others might just do and think. Let them off. It shouldn't bother anyone to the degree shown here.

Look at the discussion. In the main it's not people screaming for masks to be retained. It's mainly people complaining that others might just have another POV. It's like some are truely obsessed with masks and just can't leave the whole thing go and it all comes across just a bit beyond crazy

Your desire for space doesn't appear to be covid driven though you just don't want to be close to other people because you don't like other people. Or at least that's how it comes across, and you believe the mask may assist with that.

No reason has been given by NPHET as to why the mandate can be dropped.

Is Micheál Martin(Flashbacks to the 2020 Dáil Debates) relying on the majority of the public to pull through with continued masking as he has done time and time again. It's not like An Garda Síochána enforced the mandate so that compliance remained high. We have been hovering below the mid 80's since September.

So the plan is to just let the dangerous slackers do whatever they feel like.

Wow what a ridiculous comparison.

It's not really. It's advice to still wear masks. Do you ignore your doctor's advice as well after seeing them?