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

Goldengirl · 03-03-2022 10:29pm

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728596#Comment_118728596

I am not worried whether you or others wear a mask or not . You do you was reference to that .

I have said this in every post in the thread . Show me where I have said that I want others to wear a mask other than healthcare .

You are the one who is ranting and throwing toys out of the pram because not everyone agrees that wearing masks in some situations is still required and advised . And not everyone is prepared to ditch them straight away so you don't have to reminded ( shiver ) of Covid .

That's tough on you /s

Dakota Dan · 04-03-2022 12:27am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118727745#Comment_118727745

Where did I say that I’d wear them in a plane? You seem to be getting mixed up between posters.

Atlantic Dawn · 04-03-2022 5:05am

No

Are masks a legal requirement at airports now or a recommendation?

All I can find for Dublin Airport is...

"We ask that all passengers wear a face mask throughout their full airport journey. Masks will be available to purchase from vending machines and other outlets throughout the airport. "

https://www.dublinairport.com/covid-19/covid-19-faqs

YFlyer · 04-03-2022 5:13am

Is covid gone?

Leftwaffe · 04-03-2022 6:12am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729550#Comment_118729550

Gone for the vast majority but the religion lives on for others.

YFlyer · 04-03-2022 6:14am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729579#Comment_118729579

So it won't infect the majority of us?

04-03-2022 6:35am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729550#Comment_118729550

COVID will never be gone.

That's the exact reason why many of us were so frustrated that we spent billions to hide for 2 years.

DLink · 04-03-2022 6:39am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729600#Comment_118729600

We spent two years pointlessly hiding in our bunkers from covid, when, as it now turns out, we should have kept our bunkers ready for this week 😬

YFlyer · 04-03-2022 6:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729600#Comment_118729600

Novel virus. Who knew then?

Potential-Monke · 04-03-2022 7:37am

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

And on and on and on and on......

Dakota Dan · 04-03-2022 8:19am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729550#Comment_118729550

Yep we are now into phase 2 of wrecking the economy using the Russian invasion, can you see where this is going?

Sleeper12 · 04-03-2022 8:23am

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

Still 50/50 in any shops I have been to so far. I no longer wear mine in shops but when visiting clients homes I still wear it. Some expect me to have a mask entering their home.

hotmail.com · 04-03-2022 10:20am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729579#Comment_118729579

It's a superstition at this stage.

YFlyer · 04-03-2022 12:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729752#Comment_118729752

Is that you Ben?

VG31 · 04-03-2022 12:24pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729548#Comment_118729548

It's a recommendation. The previous wording:

It is now a legal requirement that all passengers wear a face mask or appropriate face covering throughout their full airport journey. Passenger should come to the airport with their face masks, but if new or more are required, masks will be available to purchase from vending machines and other outlets throughout the airport.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211102000630/https%3A//www.dublinairport.com/covid-19/covid-19-faqs

thefallingman · 04-03-2022 12:25pm

No

less and less masks now here in the big smoke, even the diehards in the office have given them up

lawred2 · 04-03-2022 1:14pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118730949#Comment_118730949

Sheep are like that

Dakota Dan · 04-03-2022 2:00pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118730942#Comment_118730942

come back in a couple of months.

04-03-2022 2:54pm

No

Mandate is now gone in my office thankfully. Huge celebrations in here today!!

astrofool · 05-03-2022 12:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118732017#Comment_118732017

Party of one?

Fandymo · 07-03-2022 9:31am

No

One person on the lower deck of the bus, and one person on the upper deck of the bus wearing a mask this morning. Bus was packed. Normality is back thank god.

hotmail.com · 07-03-2022 10:43am

No

It was expected after a week or two, covid superstitious people would eventually calm down and ditch the mask.

Some people are slower to change than others.

feelings · 07-03-2022 12:48pm

No

No chance I'll continue to wear a mask. Back to normal please.

Amadan Dubh · 07-03-2022 1:08pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118723762#Comment_118723762

It's pretty obvious isn't it?

Again though, a COVID infected person mask or no mask is a bigger risk than a maskless person who is not infected with COVID, correct?

This is how it has always been but I think you, like many others, can't see the wood from the trees. Maskless alone does not equate to a COVID risk, remember that.

Apothic_Red · 07-03-2022 2:20pm

I intended to keep wearing one but now I look like a tit doing, none of the staff wear them & neither do the customers.

seamus · 07-03-2022 4:33pm

Still quite a lot of masks in the local SuperValu here. Mostly older people and middle-aged women it has to be said. Was in last Thursday morning about 11am and about 90% of the customers were wearing one. A lot less worn in the evening for the wine run though.

Was at a kids' birthday party yesterday indoors, big playspace for the kids. Quite a few adults wearing masks at the start, very few wearing them by the end. Staff were all wearing masks, presumably an employer thing.

I do think we're still in a bit of a transition phase where people aren't sure what contexts it's appropriate to wear them, so when doing something new they'll stick them on until they know the lay of the land.

_Kaiser_ · 08-03-2022 9:55am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118746634#Comment_118746634

But here's the thing.. none of what you mentioned there is doing anything "new" - these are normal everyday activities that prior to 2020 no-one would have thought twice about.

Covid thankfully turned out to be nowhere near as deadly as was initially feared and even less so since Omicron became the dominant strain. That's why even the conservative and slow-to-relax-restrictions NPHET agreed that masks were no longer required.

I think what's going on is some people wanting to be seen to be doing the "right thing" - until they realise no one else is bothered anymore and then the masks are quietly put away. Masks have been an excellent exercise in social engineering if nothing else.

seamus · 08-03-2022 11:24am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749617#Comment_118749617

It's "new" in the sense that it's a change in routine. For those who would have spent a lot of time wearing masks; either in work or because they spent a lot of time going in and out and putting masks on and off; then the wearing of masks became normalised. And thus, doing the same activities without a mask, is new sensation.

For those of us, like myself, who probably would have had to put on a mask no more than once or twice a week over the last two years, then the transition is a lot more straightforward. But we humans are adaptive machines, we tend to find ourselves getting used to things very quickly. As such, wearing a mask indoors would feel normal.

Ask a motorcyclist if they have ever ridden without their helmet on. And they will all tell you that it feels really weird, like a form of nakedness. Even though they spend the rest of their lives without one, the association is there; on bike = wear helmet. So it's the same with masks. Indoors = wear mask. People will get used to not wearing them indoors again. In a couple of months if you go into a hospital and have to put on a mask, that feeling of weird discomfort will come right back.

08-03-2022 12:15pm

No

Big drop in people wearing masks so far this week from what iv seen.

Slowing returning to normal

JP100 · 08-03-2022 2:15pm

No

I've a friend who thinks nothing of being in a packed pub (maskless throughout) from 7 in the evening to closing time on a Saturday night - but who then deems it prudent to wear his cloth mask while popping into his local centra on the Sunday to grab some milk. He will also use his mask outside when at GAA matches but then discard it altogether to visit the local pub afterwards. I've softly queried him on this a couple of times and his only response was that the mask keeps him safer. Behaviour and a line of thinking that defies any sort of logic whatsoever.

_Kaiser_ · 08-03-2022 2:58pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118751201#Comment_118751201

Not his fault to be fair - it's the same "logic" that was pushed all along.. OK in restaurants/pubs but you better mask up to go to the toilet!

I think the biggest "benefit" of masks was to be seen to be doing something and following the herd. We didn't encourage them in the initial stages (NPHET actively advised against it), but then other countries started to push them so we got on board too! Then when the UK (England specifically) relaxed the rules and mandates, it was OK for our shower to do it too.

The confusion, fear and anxiety caused by the last 2 years of our inconsistent, often illogical, "covid response" is huge and some people will probably never fully recover from it. Then you have those who just want to be seen doing "the right thing" and tut-tutting those who don't. There's a (thankfully) much smaller group who are actually vulnerable, but on the whole it's been a very illuminating (and disturbing) exercise in social engineering as I said earlier - it's frightening how easily most people handed over the decision-making of their daily lives without question, and continued to fight against taking that responsibility back even when it became very obvious that Covid was nowhere near the threat we initially feared.

Tell me how · 12-03-2022 10:52pm

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118751679#Comment_118751679

Meanwhile, back in the world of science.

https://twitter.com/NIH/status/1501930136089755650

DLink · 13-03-2022 7:19am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118776405#Comment_118776405

But in the real world we don't need to wear masks any more.

It's over... look at my naked, maskless face, just look at it 🤣

prunudo · 13-03-2022 8:28am

No

Weekly mask observations, 95% people not wearing them in smaller shops, convenience stores etc. Dunnes still at about 50% although generally it appears to be older people wearing them.

Spudman_20000 · 13-03-2022 8:55am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118776405#Comment_118776405

Back in the world of highly politized decision making more like, absolute junk "study":

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1502332573157974016?t=vU8s-KYAzZFbueYZlKqzxw&s=19

Mad_maxx · 13-03-2022 8:58am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118751201#Comment_118751201

Never ever underestimate the capacity for people to lie to themselves or at least convince themselves of what's illogical if it means they look less foolish

Tell me how · 13-03-2022 11:34am

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118777383#Comment_118777383

Next time you are medically unwell, are you going to go to a mechanic?

Or will you trust the medical profession view in that instance?

Tell me how · 13-03-2022 11:38am

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118777219#Comment_118777219

It's over

Except it isn't.

See the way deaths are trending since August of last year?

This is a reality. I'm fine with restrictions being lifted, but I wish people were proactive and considerate towards others and would do something that doesn't really negatively impact them in instances where they are more likely to mix with other people.

DLink · 13-03-2022 11:51am

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778022#Comment_118778022

Sorry, but it is over, back to 2019 behaviour we go.

If King Tony says the restrictions can be removed, then that's fine by me. He locked us down for long enough, and I completely intend to ignore any "advice" and carry on as I did before all this started.

_Kaiser_ · 13-03-2022 12:01pm

No

Not long back from the weekly shopping trip to Dunnes myself.

I'd say mask wearing is down to about 25% at this stage in Dunnes itself, less in the smaller shops. Most seem to be middle-aged/older women and most of those with unmasked partners.

Good to see to be honest. People exercising their own decision making process.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-03-2022 12:02pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778022#Comment_118778022

Can you get total death (all deaths Covid and non) graphs from 2020 and 2019 and put them side by side with the 2021 figure and you will notice they are more or less the same with little or no spike. Someone dying with Covid doesn't mean they died from Covid. If you went in to hospital from a weak heart, caught Covid before you died you would go down as a Covid death when the truth is the poor heart killed you.

Tell me how · 13-03-2022 12:32pm

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778123#Comment_118778123

If you want to post something, you dig it out and post it.

Or did I miss the email saying I had to do other posters work for them?

Atlantic Dawn · 13-03-2022 1:31pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778260#Comment_118778260

CSO figures for 2021 not yet fully published for Q3 and Q4.

600 of a difference from 2020 when Covid was at its worst in this country and we were told deaths were highest, actual figures tell us about an extra 11 people a week died when compared to total actual deaths in 2019 and 2018....

2020 - 31,765

2019 - 31,134

2018 - 31,140

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-vsar/vitalstatisticsannualreport2018/deaths2018/

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-vsys/vitalstatisticsyearlysummary2020/

13-03-2022 2:49pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778022#Comment_118778022

Deaths will continue to happen as a result of contracting Covid. At what point does this become, for want of a better word, acceptable? Each death is a person with people who love them. It doesn't matter if they lost their life from Covid or cancer or suicide or a car crash. They are gone.

That's the life we have. It's fragile. We can't live it in the hope that we won't cause the death of person A on the bus. Or when we sit in our car we remind ourselves that we could accidentally kill a person today.

Living with an internal narrative that our actions and words could cause the death of another isn't healthy.

I've worn my mask once since the mandate was lifted and that was in my GPs. I was on a bus yesterday for the first time in a year and there were a number of people wearing theirs. I didn't wear mine. It could be argued that I was selfish, actually I know I can be. No point dressing up the trait in claims that masks don't work or whatever, I know me.

But I absolutely strongly believe that we must do what is right for each of us and not live our lives based on what we think is right for others. We cannot save everyone.

Tell me how · 13-03-2022 4:09pm

Yes in busy Shops/public transport.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118778950#Comment_118778950

But I absolutely strongly believe that we must do what is right for each of us and not live our lives based on what we think is right for others.

We already live our lives with the welfare of others in mind.

And the mask isn't just about others, any individual who thinks they are not at risk from it could find out that that is not necessarily the case and while right now, they might shrug their shoulders and say 'So what, that's life' there's plenty examples of those who held such a view changing it once they got the virus.

And I am not saying we stay in constant lockdown, wear masks eternally, but that we recognize that the virus is still present and still people are being impacted by it. And we certainly don't glorify in the disappearance of masks like they should never have appeared in the first place (which you yourself are not doing). That is one of the main concerns I have about the mask conversation is that for some, they are using the fact that advice to wear them from NPHET and others has stopped, to mean that that advice was never valid in the first place.

We can't just ignore harsh realities because they are unpleasant and we want to go back to a time of innocence, we are not immortal.

DLink · 13-03-2022 4:57pm

No

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118779410#Comment_118779410

Back we go to 2019, no questions asked.

I'd rather have a few days of regret before the end than continue wearing a face rag, possibly for years, constantly thinking "someone could get sick if I remove the mask". covid is not going away, it is here to stay, and I'm not going to cower away from it, time to move on.

King Tony declared the war over, and that's all we need to know.

The masses hung on his every word, imploring him to squeeze harder, and when he did, they loved it.... but when he declared it over, they were like, "whoa there Tony, you have no idea what you're talking about".

Masks were just window dressing, pure and simple, they served no purpose other than to let people think they were doing something useful, but Omicron showed us all just how "useful" they were.

Beasty · 13-03-2022 8:02pm

This thread seems to be going over stuff that belongs in the mask megathread. Not sure there is anything useful still to say here and further mask discussion can move back to the megathread

Thread closed

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

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