To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

It's this attitude that's going to get us into deep trouble with another variant and we're not going to be one bit prepared. You'd think after two years, we would have learnt something but nope, they treated adults like thick and dragged their heels with basic health advice. Give it time, it will happen.

Was down in the garage there over lunch to top up the car with diesel before the next hike tonight, and I'd say it was about 50/50 masked and unmasked among both staff and customers (maybe 70/30 on the former)

Bit surprised to be honest but leave them at it if they feel safer. I don't even own a mask anymore myself.

Funny he says that, I was told this by 2 large "shipping container business owners"

In 2018, there were containers full of PPE, Hand san units.. Oh and scores of PCR testing units... go figure

You can tell him that by wearing it in pharmacies, he's doing the other people in there a small favour by ensuring whatever he may have picked up in the packed pubs has a less chance of being passed on to a vulnerable person collecting their medication. But as we know, people don't care about that so...

Vulnerable people should wear an FFP2 or similar if they don’t want to catch anything. It shouldn’t be left up to everyone else wearing a pointless cloth mask

Covid was never so lethal as was first feared though. It certainly isn't now with the omicron variant.

It's not March 2020 when information was limited and conflicting. We have 2 years of dealing with this virus, almost everyone has been triple vaccinated, and it's now endemic.

Masks (the standard cheap cloth ones anyway) offer limited protection and are more of a placebo as I've said before as evidenced by surging case numbers at various points despite almost universal adherence.

But luckily, any threat from Covid is now even more marginal than it ever was so there really isn't a lethal virus out there

I think my biggest issue with people still wearing masks is that its indicative of people that just consent to everything they're told, even if it doesn't make any sense. These are the folks that will have us straight back into restrictions in the future because they'd rather do as they're told rather than question anything.

Wasn't a great start.

Just as your entitled to cherry pick all along on boards. Does not show what you claim it does.

The Anti-maskers by and large are emotional decision making/believing people. When confronted with logic it challenges the foundations that support their beliefs and they react emotionally, this thread is a homage to it.

Just living in your imagination and it's fragmented from reality.

The only way we are going back into restrictions, which masks are not is by not wearing masks.

Imagine a poster who doesn't want to see people get sick. He's such a horrible person indeed. You'd think the three if ye would go out running or something and build up all your energy and go huffing and puffing and go into shopping centers with your covid germs. But instead ye're hiding behind your keyboards. What exactly are ye trying to achieve with what ye do? Telling people it's over but not over for ye when it comes to posting crap online.

That's an ironic statement considering yourself and others are lashing out at "anti-maskers" and "selfish" people all over this thread because they have decided that the level of risk vs their own circumstances do not warrant them continuing with mask wearing, as they are now perfectly entitled to do.

When challenged on this you give more of the same or complain about being questioned generally.

I'll say it again - wear your mask as often as you like, wherever you like, for as long as you like. No-one will stop you (or particularly cares I'd suggest), however that is the limit of what you can expect from others. That's called freedom of choice and independent decision making - two things that I think are key in our society.

You need to relax man like i said to you yesterday life is short, why you getting so angry about a mask i really can’t wrap my head around this mindset ,like others have said to you and Seany countless times nobody will ever stop you from wearing your mask continue to wear it forever nobody cares.

Nobody is getting angry or upset. You'd think you'd move on to trolling in the war thread instead?