Coronavirus & stuff

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **site23** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:06 am

Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sadly, in many workplace environments people will really viciously take the piss out of you if you wear a mask, especially without a "serious" reason. You could make up a reason but then if the lie is ever exposed you would be even more of an outcast.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Qikz** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:22 am

No Christmas name wrote:
Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sadly, in many workplace environments people will really viciously take the piss out of you if you wear a mask, especially without a "serious" reason. You could make up a reason but then if the lie is ever exposed you would be even more of an outcast.

People in England are strawberry floating stupid if this is the case.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:23 am

Qikzmas wrote:
No Christmas name wrote:
Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sadly, in many workplace environments people will really viciously take the piss out of you if you wear a mask, especially without a "serious" reason. You could make up a reason but then if the lie is ever exposed you would be even more of an outcast.

People in England are strawberry floating stupid if this is the case.

You've just insulted the whole of Wales.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Squinty** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:28 am

If we were clever, people would be masking up in busy places. But we aren't so :simper:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Qikz** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:28 am

Moggy wrote:
Qikzmas wrote:
No Christmas name wrote:
Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sadly, in many workplace environments people will really viciously take the piss out of you if you wear a mask, especially without a "serious" reason. You could make up a reason but then if the lie is ever exposed you would be even more of an outcast.

People in England are strawberry floating stupid if this is the case.

You've just insulted the whole of Wales.

People in the UK* :slol:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Imrahil** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:36 am

Why does it always come back to being only the UK with these things? :lol:

Pretty much the whole world has moved on from regular facemask usage since Covid became a milder disease. The only countries that are still heavily using facemasks are the ones that were culturally predisposed to wearing them in general before hand.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **site23** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:36 am

Me and Ad are crying into our cockles and laverbread right now. :cry:

I don't like to think of people as being "just" stupid. I think it's more interesting and helpful to think about why they believe what they do.

There was a big push in the media about how "now it's all over we need to go back to how things were". I think a substantial chunk of people realised from the experience of the pandemic that, actually, wearing a mask is a decent choice in winter just to generally get less ill -- but they were portrayed as childish, moralistic worriers, or even basically monsters who want us to be locked away forever so we can never hug our parents and the kids can never play outside again, and so on.

Not everyone has the critical thinking skills to read all that and realise that it's propaganda from a ruling class who are invested in maintaining city-centre commercial building prices and generating culture wars. Unfortunately, many people will take it at face value -- especially as it wasn't just ridiculous tabloids taking that line, but also "respectable" sources.

That doesn't excuse the bullying behaviour when it arises of course, it's totally unacceptable. But the propagandists and bullies have largely won, it's quite difficult to bear the social consequences of wearing a mask. I only mask up on long train journeys these days and even then it's a bit embarrassing getting so many weird looks.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Grumpy David** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:40 am

Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Are you planning to wear a mask for the rest of your life? Or once you inevitably get Covid, you reckon you'll lose the motivation to keep wearing a mask?

It'll take a significant event to get people mask wearing in any meaningful numbers, just seeing some random guy isn't going to alter that: "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:47 am

Are you planning to wash your hands for the rest of your life? Or once you inevitably get norovirus, you reckon you'll lose the motivation to keep washing your hands?

It'll take a significant event to get people hand washing in any meaningful numbers, just seeing some random guy isn't going to alter that: "No one cared who I was until I put my hands in the sink."

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Qikz** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:48 am

Grumpy David wrote:
Qikzmas wrote:Why is it not sustainable? Just out of interest anyway, you can still wear a mask even if no other strawberry floater is kind enough to do so. People might see you doing it and think oh, maybe this wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Are you planning to wear a mask for the rest of your life? Or once you inevitably get Covid, you reckon you'll lose the motivation to keep wearing a mask?

It'll take a significant event to get people mask wearing in any meaningful numbers, just seeing some random guy isn't going to alter that: "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."

Covid isn't the reason I'm wearing a mask. I'm wearing a mask to to lessen my chance of getting ill in general - and also to stop me giving anything to anyone else. I live on my own, getting ill like I did 3 weeks ago strawberry floating sucks because you have 0 energy to do anything and you somehow have to help yourself and stop yourself and your home from falling into dissarray. I also just honestly feel more comfortable wearing a mask, especially if it's cold outside like it is now it helps keep your face warm.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Vermilion** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:14 am

I found mask wearing didn't make a great deal of difference tbh, i still ended up contracting every bit of rubbish going.

I don't wear them anymore because i hated them, and also the above, but i've no issue with anyone who feels happier doing so.

There was also the problem where i was still using them on the london underground, but when i tried to take one off afterwards, it got caught around my glasses and almost broke them, which in a place like that, would have been an absolute disaster.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Outrunner** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:50 am

I still wear a mask, partially to avoid becoming ill, partially because I don't like my appearance and wearing a mask is a bit of a confidence booster. I don't wear it all the time but it seems* to have helped me avoid getting sick as often as I used to over the past few years. I've probably been ill maybe 2 or 3 times since the start of covid and I'm fairly confident they were from times where I didn't mask up around people so I'd like to think it's had some effect. If not I still like how I look in a mask so will keep it up for the foreseeable future

*I know this isn't scientific and I may just have got lucky

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Memento Mori** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:26 am

I wear N95 masks in very busy shops and public transport. I get much fewer colds than I used to, why would I stop?

YouTube · PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jazzem** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:42 am

TV Dinner wrote:I wear N95 masks in very busy shops and public transport. I get much fewer colds than I used to, why would I stop?

Same! N95s :wub:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:04 pm

Similar to mass vaccination masks are primarily effective when a critical mass of people choose to use them. The core benefit is to reduce the transmission of airborne infections from the wearer of the mask, not the other way around - if enough people routinely wear them then that means there is a significant drop in the spread of illness from people who may not be aware they are infectious.

There is a level of protection to yourself if you wear one "solo" as it were, and if it makes you feel happier and safer then that's reason enough, but sadly unless we can convince society that general adoption of masks during the winter/flu season is a good idea then there isn't much hope of getting the real wider benefit from them.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Squinty** » Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:42 pm

No Christmas name wrote:I don't like to think of people as being "just" stupid. I think it's more interesting and helpful to think about why they believe what they do.

So do I. But it's hard not to arrive at the conclusion that many people don't give care about anyone beyond their sphere. And that just stupid.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Vermilion** » Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:16 pm

I think I've gone down with flu today, came on sudden, I have a high temp, and my joints ache like hell.

I had my flu jab ages ago so I'm hopeful that it'll make a difference.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:21 pm

Are you sure you took your temperature correctly?

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Vermilion** » Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:28 pm

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Are you sure you took your temperature correctly?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! :lol:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:35 pm

Vermi Claus wrote:I think I've gone down with flu today, came on sudden, I have a high temp, and my joints ache like hell.

I had my flu jab ages ago so I'm hopeful that it'll make a difference.

You should have worn a mask.

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