Masks seem to be back..

[RisingSunn]

Has anyone else noticed this? I've seen a marked increase in people wearing them - in the bank and on transport for example.

Have I missed something?

Well no but then neither are you going to pay their bills. They are not wrong to prioritise their needs and their families and their income just as you prioritise yours. It’s totally unrealistic to expect other people’s lives to revolve around you regardless of your equally valid needs. And that’s coming from someone who isn’t CEV but who can take months to recover fully from a cold and who has been hospitalised by them.

Where I live there are several older people [different households] who still wear the basic mask just over their mouths but noses uncovered. They were doing the same during covid too. Everyone to their own but it is a pointless thing to do medically and wasteful.

Some people like to draw attention to themselves or make out that they are vulnerable. Quite sad that they don't understand that masks do nothing practical.

Maybe because of the scare mongering and BS on socail media. There's always hundreds of posts about weight loss injection deadly side effects and new deadly virus. Deadly side effects like loose skin or deadly new covid varient that's killed possibly no one.

They are all just click bait nonsense. I keep getting Liz R posting under the James Webb telescope of AI pictures and photos from the international space station.

But if that's how the general public are getting their science news maybe there are lots of people scared the new mutation of covid is deadly?

Or just people on chemo living their life.

Yeah that's just really thick. Saw the same from paramedics on a docu type show. Absolute idiocy.

I haven’t noticed an increase locally. The majority of people I know hated wearing them so wouldn’t do so through choice.

There’s a notice at our GP surgery asking people to wear masks if they’re suffering from respiratory symptoms.

DS2 and DDIL are both nurses, they’ve recently had “colds” and high temperatures that have caused them to have time off work. DGS (17mths) caught it over last weekend and ended up on HDU on Monday for a few days. When they swabbed him it was Covid.

Yes I’ve seen an increase locally. I thought it was a bit odd.

Yes, the concept of being immunocompromised and using FFP2 for proven clinical benefits is just attention-seeking 🙄

Quite sad that someone thinks so ignorantly.

Just back from holiday my symptoms started Tuesday evening on holiday just thought I’d catch a cold still not well when I landed home took a test (older relatives ) and boom I have Covid I feel rotten still so I do need provisions so I’ll be wearing a mask and staying clear of people but if your flying I’d wear a mask so many coughing on the plane on way to holiday that’s probs where I got it ! Hubbi has it as well no symptoms ! Be careful people because this new strain is rife and it’s easier transmission! ❤️

There’s a student area in Glasgow popular with Chinese and Korean youngsters and I see a lot of them with masks. Think it’s the norm from those areas

I thought this idea that repeated respiratory infections strengthens your immune system had been disproved? I don't have the science to hand, but surely multiple respiratory infections would weaken the lungs? And cold/covid/flu bugs are constantly mutating, so you are not protected by getting one of them once.

Not really but if they are will be sure to start seeing them thrown into the pavements in town again :(

I am clueless about the science, but every respiratory illness I get, whether Covid or not, seems to take a bit more out of me in terms of my general stamina, and it takes longer and longer for me to recover from them every time.

Ach away with your sensible, pragmatic and calm posts. Don’t you know we are here for a bun fight? 😄 seriously I agree. Wear one, don’t wear one, I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me either way.

Slightly off topic, but I was delighted that Covid spelt the end of the common cup when I was taking communion. Now we have individual tiny glasses which is SO much better. I always used to swerve it by dipping my bread into the wine and claiming I had bad mouth ulcers.

To the previous poster who mentioned plastic gloves. I noticed those too at a large retail store!

Yesterday - I had to pop into the bank, and at least 5 people were wearing masks - which is not the norm. The bank had 12 people there max.

A few have mentioned a new strain of Covid - however there have been other strains - and I hadn't noticed this change in behaviour.

Is this strain significantly different to others? I feel as though I have missed some news or something.

No, nothing significant about the Nimbus strain at all, a sub variant of Omicron, nothing special about it.

I haven't seen a single person in my town wearing a mask, and I'm around town working most days, massive Tesco, not a single one.

Lots of retail staff wearing them in our town.

Have you sought help for your very obvious health anxiety.

There have always been some people who wear them ,I haven’t seen an increase

No way will I ever wear one

Why does anyone give a fuck if someone else is wearing a mask?

I just assume that, like me, they’re immunocompromised or must have some other reason.

That's good to know about this strain.

Just interested in how you know you have never had Covid, on the basis that like other such diseases, it can be asymptomatic.

Not even if you had leukaemia?