If you forget your mask...

[AlrightThereSkippy]

And are going somewhere indoors, like the shops or a play centre, are you still running back to the house to get it or not?

Just curious what people tend to be doing.

It feels like a whole new mask etiquette is happening now!

It could be that people in less affluent areas tend to do be key workers and had to work throughout the pandemic, while rich people hid at homes.

Yep they chastise all these in poorer areas because cases are high for having cheek to go out to work in their jobs that kept people fed and watered.

Can't see a awful lot of slagging off.

Not even of the persistent anti-mask poster.

In real life, I barely notice what other people are choosing to do, and if I did notice someone without a mask, I would wonder whether they had what used to be an exemption. it's really rare round here not to wear a mask and I did see someone still wearing a sunflower lanyard the other day, for example.

I also think it's one thing for someone not to have a mask IRL- which would pass almost unnoticed as their personal choice or need - and another thing to invest a lot of time in posting on here that masks are dirty or filthy in a propagandist way. Which on occasion leads a number of people to disagree.

As said wear one or don't mind your own business about rest of people.

Once there’s a vaccine resistant variant everyone will be wearing them again anyway

If.

Scaremongering nonsense, yet again.

Maybe there will be a vaccine resistant variant but maybe we won't need a vaccine by then because it will like a mild cold - but be more infectious than Delta or other more serious variants so push them out the picture. We can but dream...

a variant that shows up on a test as soon as you've caught it could be helpful, too

Can we have a variant that targets Us4Then please & stops them from targeting us? either that or puts them in touch with reality?

Peteycat

@MsSkylerWhite

"Againstmachine

No one has social responsibility it's a construct you just made up.”

No, it isn’t. We all have social responsibility."

No we don't. Do you see yourself having social responsibility to the planet and future generations? If so, you will definitely ditch the bloody masks. I see them everywhere, hanging off trees, pavements, strewn on the floor in the countryside. Our moral obligation is to save the planet from more harm.“

Yes, we do.

I wear a washable mask from Korea, with an N95 filter. Whole family does and has since May 2020 when we decided it was wise and researched the most effective types. We don’t go out very much, I’m still on the first one.

They’re flown here from Korea but as we haven’t flown for 17 years and I bought a dozen, I think that’s acceptable in the circumstances (CEV husband).

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr, do you know how variants develop? How mutations occur?

Hint - it's about continuous unhindered spread.

@megletthesecond

clarke because we're in a pandemic. Because I'm bored with it and would rather not catch the virus and drag it out any longer. Because if my household gets ill my dc's miss school.

Sorry to disillusion you, but all the lockdowns, social distancing and (possibly) mask wearing have done exactly that, ie dragged it on. Not saying we should have down this, but if we truly had wanted it over and done with as quickly as possible then we should have had no mitigations at all and let it go through society as quickly as possible. We may even have then not created perfect conditions for more transmissible varients to get the upper hand (is it purely a coincidence that Alpha made an appearance during a time when social distancing and lockdown was in force? I would say not).

[quote mathanxiety]@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr, do you know how variants develop? How mutations occur?

Hint - it's about continuous unhindered spread.[/quote]
Yes, of course I do.

I also know that a) there's no guarantee that a vaccine resistant variant will occur, so it's an 'if' not a 'when' and b) the spread isn't unhindered. Vaccines reduce transmission by up to 70%.

I keep a pack of disposable masks in the car (they used to be my hairdresser visit, getting my hair dyed masks) so if I've forgotten to pick up a reusable one at home, I just grab one of those.

Though I'm finding myself more comfortable in a disposable one at most times just now due to the heat.

Am I reading this right? You think more people should have gotten it and all the complications, pain and possible death that went with it? Jesus wept.

@RuggerHug

Am I reading this right? You think more people should have gotten it and all the complications, pain and possible death that went with it? Jesus wept.

Sorry that was in response to whatever9999

@RuggerHug

Am I reading this right? You think more people should have gotten it and all the complications, pain and possible death that went with it? Jesus wept.

No. I'm simply stating that wearing a mask, social distancing etc, will not make it over quicker, in fact the opposite. That's what flattening the curve actually meant.

And if you actually read what I wrote, I said "I'm not saying we should have done this"

I'm just sick to death of people not understanding that not following whatever rules they've come up with will not extend the pandemic.

More people getting infected will have some tangible downsides though.

We are better off with caution and lower figures at this point.

I still wear a surgical mask if I’m going into shops, and while I’m at work. I don’t really do any leisure activities indoors, so that hasn’t been a problem.

I wear a mask in shops etc because I believe it is the right thing to do. The public health in regards to COVID-19 was placed into our own hands on 19th July. Although my mask wearing appears to be futile in the grand scheme of things at times (with the amount of people that have stopped wearing one, and social distancing etc) I will still continue to take these measures, as it will limit me spreading it, if I have it.

How long will I continue this for? Well, it’s hard to say. This is a new type of virus, which causes a new type of disease. We haven’t had a pandemic of this kind in recorded history. I haven’t known of a virulent disease to take 3 people (not CEV or very elderly) that I know before.

If mask wearing and social distancing is a “new normal” that will preserve life, then I am prepared to live with it for as long as it takes.

We haven’t had a pandemic of this kind in recorded history

You what?!

In recorded history?

Is that what you meant @AloneOnSaturn or did you mean not in our living memories?

@WheelieBinPrincess

In recorded history?

Is that what you meant @AloneOnSaturn or did you mean not in our living memories?

Or perhaps she meant in recent history?

Either way she'd be wrong. AIDS has killed over 36 million people since 1981. It kills around a million people annually, still.

@WheelieBinPrincess

Yep, I meant in recorded history. There hasn’t been a global pandemic with this type of virus before. There is of course SARS and MERS, neither of which were as contagious, and fairly contained compared with SARS-CoV-2.

I may be mistaken, though. The other global pandemics that I am aware of are either influenza viruses or bacteria?

[quote AloneOnSaturn]@WheelieBinPrincess

Yep, I meant in recorded history. There hasn’t been a global pandemic with this type of virus before. There is of course SARS and MERS, neither of which were as contagious, and fairly contained compared with SARS-CoV-2.

I may be mistaken, though. The other global pandemics that I am aware of are either influenza viruses or bacteria?[/quote]
AIDS is a virus.

HIV is a virus, I should have said.

@GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr

“ Either way she'd be wrong. AIDS has killed over 36 million people since 1981. It kills around a million people annually, still.”

That’s true. I assumed people would know that I was talking about an airborne viral pandemic, considering that is what the topic is about. A virus that you rely on other peoples’ precautions to prevent catching.

In this instance it’s like comparing apples and pears. People have an incredibly small chance of contracting HIV doing their weekly shop in Tesco.

@AloneOnSaturn to be fair you said We haven’t had a pandemic of this kind in recorded history. I haven’t known of a virulent disease to take 3 people (not CEV or very elderly) that I know before which suggests it was general 'virulent disease' you were referring to. And it could be argued that you do rely on others' precautions to prevent yourself catching HIV to some extent - while you may not catch it in Tesco, you do have to rely on your sexual partners having previously practiced safer sex, been tested etc.

I knew of far more than three people who were lost to AIDS in the 80s/90s, incidentally. Pandemics, and virulent disease, have always been with us, sadly.

I'm in Wales, masks are still required by law in some settings.

I'm going to be gutted when they go, because with a mask on I can really let my resting bitch face show itself in full glory with no judgment. 😂 I can even mouth "you fucking idiot" whilst smiling with my eyes and nobody knows 😂