Basically, wanted to know where people are at with mask wearing (as it relates to containing covid and all), I know it's been a while since it started. And I've seen people who say covid can still be threatening, like through long covid and such, even if the initial impact doesn't tend to be as bad. Being in the US, it's especially hard to tell what makes sense because the gov sorta gave up on containment a while back and only ever half-assed pushing mask wearing. And wearing a mask alone was a controversial thing in some places, even in the very beginning. Then there's vaccines, which of course help, but seems to be a thing like the flu where you have to get boosters to be fully covered for variant strains.

So in general, I'm wondering stuff like:

  1. Do you still wear a mask or not and why? And do you have distinctions like large crowds or anything like that?

  2. How does mask wearing compare by country, from what you know? For example, I'm sure China has a more pro-mask-wearing culture and policy overall, but I'm not clear on where they're at this late into it.

Partly asking cause I want to re-assess my own position on it, see if it makes sense to change it at all by now. I've still been doing it, in part out of inertia, but the US management of it is such a mess, in gov and culture, it's hard to tell when it makes sense to stop vs. just caving to peer pressure of people who were never acting responsibly to begin with.

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think calling the vast majority of people rats is as good of a look as you think it is,

      You obviously don't know me then, I don't give the first fuck about optics in the eyes of crackers. I care about protecting the people I chose; and those who willingly carry pathogens and plagues in their faces are a tacit danger to me and my family.

      I hope you have to live with the kind of lung scarring that my partner has to because crackers in my where wouldn't mask. I hope you have to live with the kind of brainfog that my grandfather has to exist in if he tries to exert himself in the ways he used to before the pandemic.

      I curse you with that.

        • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          the people coming here from hexbear should take a deep breath and realize we all went thru the shit during covid and that not everyone is american

            • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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              2 months ago

              I am too, just without the hostility to other people, we can be talked to and hear other viewpoints without the vitriol. I myself have a shit ton of trauma related to COVID, people being mean to me is bringing that backup; as to why I deleted all my comments prior.

            • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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              2 months ago

              What comrade? I don't see one. Taking up for them, you disgust me too.

              Kill it or die with it. How dare any of you call yourselves my “comrades”.

              This is the only energy I accept regarding COVID and how to handle it; otherwise you and I are not comrades.

              • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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                2 months ago

                I biked to the hospital on xmas day to help with the covid response and got close to min wage to do it; most days id bike past piles of dead bodies or carers sitting outside the care homes sobbing.

                You sure showed me though dawg well done, please inflict your anger on someone other than us.