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[โ€“] dandroid@dandroid.app 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do any time I'm going to be around people for an extended period of time or around a large crowd. Concerts, long grocery store trips on a Saturday, in-office work days (I work hybrid now ๐Ÿ˜ž), I'll put on on a mask. If I'm just running into the store to grab a gallon of milk because we're out, then I won't wear a mask.

My wife legit almost died from Covid, and it took her about 6 months to return to normal, so we are a little overly careful.

[โ€“] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

My wife is immunocompromised due to stage 4 cancer. We mask up any time we have to be around people; doctors visits, grocery runs, etc. We haven't gone back to eating in restaurants but have considered eating at places that have outdoor seating.

[โ€“] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still wear a mask, 70% because I take care of at-risk relatives, 30% because people treat me better when they cant see my ugly face

[โ€“] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"N95?"

"No no, a full Shatner mask like Halloween."

[โ€“] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do if I think I'm getting sick. I also wear one if I was getting on a plane.

[โ€“] NENathaniel@lemmy.film 7 points 1 year ago

Only when I feel sick and am indoors

[โ€“] Pretzelise@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wear a mask to work if I'm sick but can't call in. People give me odd looks but honestly I kinda enjoy not having to wear as much make up because of the mask lol

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If i'm sick or on a long flight.

[โ€“] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Me at nights. I'm Batman.

[โ€“] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yes. If I am going out into a public space I will wear a mask, unless I'm outdoors and it's not too crowded.

[โ€“] wwaxwork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I still wear one in crowds. I had a lobe of a lung removed due to a rare cancer. I'll never be cured, but will slowly loose lung function as airways are blocked. If I'm lucky it's a disease I die with and not of, so I am treating my lungs like the delicate little flowers they are and fighting to avoid any and all respiratory diseases I can. I am now also queen of the hand sanitiser when out in public. The stuff from Bath and Bodyworks is da bomb, smells like hand cream.

[โ€“] gaydarless@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I do when travelling in any capacity (public transit, airplane) and most of the time when I'm in close proximity to a large group of other people (grocery store, crowded indoor event, anywhere with poor ventilation). I am starting to try doing some unmasked social events with a limited number of participants. It was only in June of this year that I started doing this. Prior to that, I masked everywhere all the time, except with my "bubble" of friends.

[โ€“] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends on where I'm at and if I or anyone I've been around was sick.

I still wear an n95 at the airport and on planes. Honestly I'll probably continue to do so indefinitely. Not getting sick on vacation has been great

I usually wear one at indoor concerts too. I used to get sick after almost every concert, now I don't.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sister's vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it's a personal insult they can't get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.

They may institute a mask mandate again

  • to keep the remaining staff healthy on return
  • to filter their customers further because of high correlation of shitbaggery
  • because docs are always masked so lower risk is now a work perq for them.

Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I'm a dumb boy and always forget. I'm so vaxed it's like a bad hangover, but I don't have time for even that mess.

[โ€“] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I carry mine with me and wear it if i start suddenly coughing (to help alleviate others fears) or if in a super crowded place.

[โ€“] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once the hospitals around here stopped requiring them in April this year, I stopped wearing them. I haven't gotten covid yet (as far as I know) and I haven't been vaccinated since the bivalent one last year since they haven't approved another one for all groups yet.

[โ€“] accesslog@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Only wear it on public transport.

[โ€“] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Started again because of the forest fire smoke.

[โ€“] doug_aguilar 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, but only in closed spaces (i.e. subway, stores)

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I'm indoors outside my apartment I put one on. Once or twice I got caught without and I don't worry about it then. I sometimes see people wearing masks. Honestly, I just wear it as a political statement: try to help each other. Before that it was for the benefit of others. It was never for my benefit, I don't give a fuck.

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Every time I go to my doctor's appointments I still do. Especially when it's the anticoagulation clinic I go to since there are a lot of elderly patients who go there.

I don't really wear one much outside of those times, though.

[โ€“] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I still use a mask daily. I actually like it. Also going without a mask in public in terrible. Car smoke, death animal smell, piss smell, random people coughing, etc. A mask prevents me of smelling all of that in a pretty effective way.

Also dont have to force smile wearing a mask.

[โ€“] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do, see https://www.covidisairborne.org/ for tons of info on why we all should.

[โ€“] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

At least my Minecraft skin does. I don't.

[โ€“] d0ndieg0@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Only when I am go into public bathrooms.

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