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

Any premises that are still enforcing masks after the mandate ends will quickly lose business.

So, during the first lockdown, when there was no advice to wear masks, you wore a mask the whole time to be sociable responsible?

Was that the period when the World Health Organisation were pushing the line from the Chinese government that covid was not airborne?

Once that was shown to be wrong and face masks were recognised to be effective in conjunction with other preventive methods such as hand washing and social distancing, the majority of people who were socially responsible rowed in with that to help reduce the rate of spread of Covid. But you know that I guess.

This should be answer of responsible people. While there is a pandemic then wear one, when the pandemic ends or moderates, then do not. The issue is the prevalence of the disease not some sort of ridiculous culture war.

No the vax is 100% effect don't understand really why we continue to have to wear them, we are at near 85% vaccination. I am vaccinated, won't catch, won't spread. The end.

Many people will forget their masks, and its because of this any business continuing to enforce mask wear will loss business. It's the forgetting of masks that will cause people to quickly stop using them.

anyway the vacs are 95% effective.

No need for anyone to stand their ground If they insist on masks people will leave and go elsewhere, I know I will do just that.

I have never seen any business hand out a mask when someone has forgotten theirs.

Anyway vacs are 95% for this strain the latest it makes sense that they will be 95% for others, indeed vunerable people will have been vacs.

Said it in another thread. Give it a week or two and the ones saying they'll keep wearing their masks will soon ditch them when they realise no one else is wearing them.

Same people who opposed every opening up and any relaxation.

They've been consistently wrong on most things.

We also had people that said it would be over by Easter 2020 and others who went on to say that restrictions would never be lifted.

Those who wish to continue to wear masks, will they continue to wear filthy masks?

Ugh. I have a head cold so may have to change my answer if it's not cleared up soon. I'm looking forward to being completely rid of masks but I'd rather not give anyone this cold either. That said, I did a test this morning just to be 100% sure it's not Covid which I had last month. And it felt absolutely alien. Getting the box of tests out, swabbing, checking the cassette, it felt like something from a life time ago. Something that was once a regular part of life that has since faded. Like when you visit your primary school. So even though I feel like crap from my cold, it was pretty amazing to have that feeling of Covid being something from the past.

Is it actually Monday the regulations lapse, or 00:00:01 Tuesday AM?

Over 99% of schools and universities would have no student deaths either. Nothing to do with masks or vaccines

I will definitely drop the masks from Monday, hopefully for good. However I think a majority of people will continue to wear them from Monday onwards, at least for a few weeks. Mainly because it will take a few weeks for people to drop them and people don't like to feel like they are sticking out. I'm expecting a lot of dirty looks on Monday. I also think a lot of businesses, especially retail will continue to force their staff to wear masks and in some cases will insist customers must wear them. Interesting to see how it pans out.

That would certainly include the majority of people from my experience.

We will see now many are actually committed to it/genuinely still anxious as opposed to tokenism/virtue signalling or "only because it's required" next week.

Personally I reckon by next Saturday night they'll be the exception not the norm.

Can I ask you a direct question, do you consider yourself a do-gooder?

I'm curious, if not, if you have an aversion to people who display empathy and concern/consideration for others?

I was in the Pavillions in Swords and Blanch yesterday, so a good busy Saturday trading time. No mask on, as I have been doing since our saviour Tony said at last that they are not needed (As I can remind them that the CMO doesn’t recommend them).

Definitely got a few strange looks. One man of a similar age was staring me out of it as if I had two heads! There was a good number not wearing them.

The sheep will be along in a few weeks and realise that the poorly fitted piece of cloth on their faces is actually doing very little.

There’s still loads of people doing the little mask dance in restaurants and bars too! Put them on, take them off, put them on take them off!

No, stopped wearing one weeks ago and my anxiety is all the better for it. Some people don't mind wearing them but I honestly couldn't stick them and was really uncomfortable.

People want to wear them still that's fine, I wish no one did after Monday as they will still be a visual reminder that people just can't move on but each to their own.