Who here still wears a mask?

If I'm feeling sick, or my family is, I will wear one to work, the whole point of them is to minimize spread of disease.

I am one of the only people here that still wears a mask at the doctor. Even most of the doctors stopped wearing them (what the hell! thats where the sick and immunocompromised are most likely to be in the same building!)

I carry one with me. If I see someone else wearing one, I'll put it on. I'm not really worried about anything myself, but I'll gladly wear a mask to give someone else peace of mind.

Me. Cause I'm ugly

On public transit and airplanes, definitely. I used to get colds all the time when traveling; I don't anymore. I think part of that is down to improvements in air filtration, but part of it is masking.

In some shops, but not all. Mostly in shops that have a lot of people in at once, and shops that request it. I don't mask if I'm going to the corner store to pick up some beer; I do mask at the grocery store that has a sign requesting it.

Never for outdoor events. This might be different if I lived in a different city; a friend of mine who lives in the LA area does mask for crowded outdoor events.

Also, doctor's offices and a few other places require it.

(Curious observation: On transit, I'm not usually the only person with a mask on, but I'm often the only non-Asian person with a mask on.)

We all wear masks...metaphorically speaking, we suppress the id, our darkest desires, and adopt a more socially acceptable image.

Yep, while inside public places. Still haven’t caught it. Knocks on wood

This thread is an interesting "filter bubble" experience. Here, a city in central europe, nobody I know wears one anymore, even those who were always extra-careful on the cautious side. Basically nobody in stores wears one nor in public transport. Yeah, on occasion you find 1-2 exceptions that confirm the rule.

Probably, this thread is largely visited by those who still do, and ignored by those who don't.

I do. The number one "complaint" people had with me pre-pandemic was that I should smile more. Not one fucking dumbass person has told me to do that when I have my mask on. That alone is enough reason for me to never take it off when I'm dealing with customers.

I am also still paranoid and I don't trust the average person out there to be doing safe things.

If I feel under the weather and I must go out, I'll wear a mask. Otherwise, no. Society at large has accepted the less dangerous variants as a fact of life.

During the pandemic I wore them everywhere. A large section of society showed they couldn't be fucking bothered so here we are.

Indoors in public, all the time.

I don't want to catch COVID again if I can help it. It's a shitty, dangerous virus.

TBH, I don't think most people understand that it's not just a bad cold--it's a virus that attacks your vascular system that also does some nasty respiratory stuff. The increased risks of heart attacks and strokes after even a mild infection are not great, and if you're getting infected every year, you're permanently carrying that elevated risk.

I do. I find it helps reduce common cold and cough infections. And i really will never stop wearing it when in a mall or any space with lots of strangers.

If I'm sick or in a crowded space it kinda feels like common sense to me at this point tbh. Especially when sick, like I can't fathom how I thought it was normal to just be sick and go out without a mask probably getting other people sick, even if it was just a cold.

Everytime I go grocery shopping I will also be wearing a mask. I am kind of baffled by people who seem to think that corona has poofed out of existence.

I've noticed wearing an N95 makes the hard gasoline and diesel smells from the highway less bad when cycling-commuting.

Yes. I got covid in 2020 and am still a complete wreck. It really did a number on me in so many ways.

I try to do what I can to avoid getting even worse.

I don’t, and I feel super out of place now after reading the comments.

I still wear a mask but its the fact that others don't think logically about this stuff still that has me most up in arms. Dad has been sick since weekend, mom says I'm going to come over to your house to see her grandkids. Mom comes over and 4 hours later they call me to tell me they both have covid and tested positive. Mom tells me that dad had been sick since weekend....in my head im fuming.

fingers crossed. Just hoping since she wasn't sick, that our 1 hour visit will spare my fam somehow.

I wear a mask when I’m on a short plane trip because the odds are high someone will have a airborne illness. And the effort is minimal compared to the probability of exposure. But otherwise I don’t wear one.

Never. Corona hasn't really been a concern in Denmark since very early 2022

I tend to wear one before I get on the London Underground, it's grotty enough as it is, without the close confines and hordes of people.

I wear one every day with only a few exceptions (lab work for university where it’s impractical and I’m only around a few people anyway). I have seen the effects of long Covid on my loved ones, and i want nothing to do with that. Still haven’t caught COVID this far in, and while I think my vaccinations have been effective it makes me uncomfortable that we aren’t continuing to boost and that most people haven’t had a fresh vaccine in a few years at this point. Waning efficacy is a real thing and many never got boosted at all

I do pretty much always. I don't at the gym or in the (semi rare) instances i eat out. Shit's not "over" and i have an immunocompromised friend i'd like to continue hanging out with.

At this point, only if it is required, and it almost never is. No bad feelings at all towards people who do wear them. I'm not personally concerned about it, and nobody in my family is high risk, so I decided early on that I'd just follow local rules and CDC guidelines. CDC website currently only recommends masks if you may have been exposed so that's what I've been doing.

I do in higher risk situations since I'm immunosuppressed from my Colitis treatments.

If I’m on public transport, crowded public area, feeling off colour

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.

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.

Narp. I just avoid people. Much more effective.

Only I’m sick or the place I’m entering requests it- the library, dispensary, pharmacy, doctor’s office.. I think that’s it. It’s in my purse if I need it.

I will wear a mask if I know that I am going to be potentially packed in in a space with little in the way of positive air flow.

In my city, it's been normal to wear a mask when outdoors (especially when driving a motorcycle) for something like 5 years as air pollution worsened. It doesn't help that much, but it's a bit better than nothing.

So I wear one now, just like I did before Covid.

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

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 😞), 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.

If i'm sick or on a long flight.

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

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

I always have one with me in case I enter a shop that has a sign up asking patrons to wear a mask. I used to wear them religiously, but 3 years is enough. Although I respect everyone who still keeps their masks on...

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.

I do, when I'm out. But I've become a hermit since the pandemic started.

Me at nights. I'm Batman.

Only when I feel sick and am indoors

Me and my partner are both immune compromised, so yes, still masking in indoor public spaces and large outdoor crowds.

If I'm sick, flying, going to be in a crowded area, or there's air quality problems, yeah definitely. I hardly ever get sick anymore and it's great. If I do get sick, people around me don't.

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.

The only time now is if I'm somewhere that requires one, or if I'm sick/getting over bring sick.

Fuuuuck wearing a mask otherwise, I've filled that quota for a lifetime.

I put one on when the AQI here was around 300

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.

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.

I still do but at this point it's to prevent me from catching a cold - I like not getting sick and wearing a mask is barely any effort.

I have asthma and the one time I caught COVID was the worst I’ve ever felt for the longest I’ve ever felt it without ending up in a hospital. I don’t plan on repeating it. I wear an N95 every time I’m indoors with strangers, or outside in a crowd.

I don't anymore. I have all my boosters, and I live in a rural area where there are rarely crowds anywhere I go. I also have gotten over a lot of the fear I had pre-vaccine. I had covid for the first time in January and honestly I was relieved that it was very mild. Thank you scientists!! And I still have my stockpile of masks in case I ever need to leave the house if I'm sick.

Only wear it on public transport.

I do in most indoors public places but don't do it absolutely religiously. It really does work to not being sick, and wearing a mask inconveniences me less than being sick because I hate being sick. So grocery stores and whatnot, I wear one.

Started again because of the forest fire smoke.

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.

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.

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.

In closed spaces of close quarters with other people. Over a million Americans aren't here anymore, I'll take a lesson from that.

I work in a hospital where they are still required in some areas, so I always have way least one on me, and I'll wear it in some other situations was well.

I wear one in public when I'm sick, or when someone in the family is sick. I just assume that whatever they have is something I'll catch sooner or later.

I do whenever I'm indoors somewhere with a lot of people. Both my wife and I are immunocompromised. I hate being told the masks don't work and I hate even more explaining that I'm immunocompromised. People just need to mind their own business.

When I'm sick, or even when I am suffering from airborn allergens. I always bring one to social events, in case the host asks us to wear one.

I was in China last month where mask-wearing is frequent and not stigmatized. They had a surge of Covid cases, so I wore a mask on public transport. It's a total no-brainer there.

Back in Canada, I don't wear it as much because I'd be in much less trouble if I caught it here. Still wore one when visiting an aging relative in a medical facility.

I wear them at the doctor because they require it still. I pretty much don't wear one anywhere else. I wore one on the plane on the flight to my destination to not get sick and ruin the trip but I didn't wear one on the way home because I wasn't as concerned at ruining a week of work. (This was in early 2023.) I will probably wear one in crowded areas in the week before DragonCon (a big convention in Atlanta) to not get sick and miss it.

I wrote it reularly for 2 years because my job required is to wear them.

I got COVID anyway despite that. It wasn't that bad. I felt like I had a flu. No appetite, sore, tired, and shivering for almost a week. It sucked, but I don't feel like I needed medical attention, or anything that laying in bed couldn't fix.

After I was no longer required to wear it, i stopped.

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

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.

I wear them only if I have a cold or a cough myself now, or if I am traveling on a plane. I still carry a mask with me at all times though.

At planes and airports because I get sick every time I come back from a trip. I'm so tired of bringing back a souvenir cold from every trip.

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

Me. My mode of transport is usually open-air, so I dislike breathing in dust and smoke. And I hate the idea of people potentially judging my face and facial expressions.

N95 mask with headstraps whenever I'm inside anywhere or in a crowded outdoor area. If I'm only going to be outside I'll carry an earloop n95 mask with me just in case i come across a large group or need to pop in real quick to grab takeout

Only when I am go into public bathrooms.

I've been using it when going to the supermarket. I hate it because my glasses get all foggy, but I hate getting colds even more, so...

I am going to a concert at a small venue and the band has asked people attending to wear masks. I will and won't complain about it. Ever complained about it when they were required to be worn all day at work, even when I primarily work outside and alone.

When I’m sick and sneezing or coughing.

Also, when someone else wears a mask anywhere for any reason, I always ask “oh, would you like me to wear a mask?” I never ask why they do, I assume they have a good reason.

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

I live in California and it's fire season; I might have to bust out the mask if there are any fires. I wore it more when my mom was still alive and had doctor's appointments and such, since they are still required in places like hospitals and dialysis clinics. I have ADHD and am triggered by textures; I really don't like anything on my face. Masks, creams, glasses, etc. I only wear it when absolutely necessary.

Yeah, in public indoor spaces and I avoid prolonged exposure like movie theaters. I've avoided it so far. I also have some friends that are especially worried about it, so I maintain my masking so they aren't uncomfortable being around me. It seems like about 10% of people in this area of the PNW still mask, people working in retail closer to 20%. It's barely an inconvenience, so why not avoid sickness in general.

We stopped recently, and plan on wearing them again during flu season, or any other outbreaks going on. I'd have been fine with wearing them indefinitely, but we were in the minority even when there were mandates in our area.