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I’d like to just say that I admire this polite and disarming response to an opening gambit that I found difficult to not read in a condescending tone.
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I don't particularly want to be that guy wearing a mask in a room full of people not wearing them
It depends. I'm sometimes the only one on the bus/tube or shop, but who cares, I don't know those people. Usually there are one or two others. On public transport I've found it up and down depending on what's in the news/media week by week.
I've been at a couple of house parties recently where a couple of other people have been fully masked (probably a step up from N95), no eating/drinking indoors etc. But if that's what they need to be able to do a bit of socialising then who am I or anyone else to disparage that.
I no longer habitually mask for work or leisure. I've noticed that a few people now mask if they've got a cold, frankly I wish more of my colleagues would rather than openly coughing/sneezing etc.
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Ben689908
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Nope, never anti-mask, anti-people taking masks from medical workers who needed them more/ignoring expert advice. You've quoted some of my posts from when the expert advice was that you didn't need to wear a mask, and I believe in experts. They may not have been right then, but nobody was as we were dealing with a new and previously unseen virus.
Damn, why didn't I think of that? Unfortunately my work, society in general and most people I know for that matter have decided that everything has to go back to normal, and I'm not entirely sure I disagree given the wider health disbenefits of lockdowns and so on. I could sit at home and deal with the inevitable impact on my mental health, but that's not a very attractive option either.
I've also got to be honest and say that while your dedication to mask wearing is admirable, I don't particularly want to be that guy wearing a mask in a room full of people not wearing them. And yeah as others have pointed out if you wear one but the person with Covid doesn't that's only going to do so much.
All that said, I'm still feeling pretty shit. Symptoms have got better but the slightest hint of intense activity still flattens me at the moment.
I think you're definitely right about this - sister got it recently on a trip down to London and was on the tube for about half an hour in total.