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Primarily I'm doing it to protect myself
I thought mask wearing in general life was hard to do effectively enough to stop yourself getting infected? Eg you need to dispose of it when you take it off, immediately wash hands, use a FFP3 rather than a bit of cloth etc?
I also don't want to pass anything on to people who aren't able to wear a mask.
That's my motivation. It's like washing my hands before cooking dinner.
jellybaby-
I thought mask wearing in general life was hard to do effectively enough to stop yourself getting infected?
At least the masks helped keep people’s emissions mostly to themselves. Serious PPE is difficult for even trained virologists to use, hence the handful of outbreaks at labs and the whole conspiracy thing behind covid, but doing away with social distancing is going to make things messy.
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I thought mask wearing in general life was hard to do effectively enough to stop yourself getting infected?
I don't expect a mask to guarantee that I won't be infected, but it provides some prevention, much better than no mask at all.
If I wanted to avoid infection completely I'd be shielding at home, not going out at all and getting everything delivered. But there's little point doing that with an 11yo child that is in school each day and has a range of activities (friends, swimming, cricket, ballet, etc) along with a load of school related volunteering that we'd also have to stop, but that's a step too far in my book.
I'm just doing what is easy and simple to do to reduce my chance of infection where I can. I'm still playing 5-a-side football twice a week and then going to the pub, and that's probably my most likely chance if I'm ever going to get it. Next up would probably be 3 visits to the gym/pool each week.
That's my motivation. It's like washing my hands before cooking dinner.
Indeed. I spent years working in catering and so good hand hygiene (and specifically not touching my face) has been drilled into me. Even though it's some 25 years since I last worked in a kitchen.
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I also don't want to pass anything on to people who aren't able to wear a mask.
That's my motivation.
You guys are right, BUT (my annoyance/anger/upset) if few people do wear mask and stay 2m away.
Friends and loved ones have died and I could not cope with the guilt of causing someones death/suffering.
Eseman
Greenbank
lynx
I'm not doing it to save those particular people.
Primarily I'm doing it to protect myself and my family/friends. Despite being double jabbed I don't want to pick up anything that I could then pass on to other people or become sick with myself.
I also don't want to pass anything on to people who aren't able to wear a mask.