Will you continue to wear your mask when they are optional?

About 70 / 30 in local Tesco today among the public. A fair few people compromising by wearing their mask under the nose or chin.

Only spotted one staff however wearing a mask. I would say after week or two very few people will still be wearing masks.

Went into dunnes and saw the same. Though 50% with staff.

In boots no surprise 100% of people with masks on, I think many customers took them off when leaving (into a shopping centre!)

Woodies similar to Dunnes and Tesco.

That's al from maskwatch 2022 :)

Not quite in our school. About 50% of the teachers at the gate this morning still had the masks on. A number of parents with masks on and my eldest, who is in 6th class, said around 8 kids in the class of 22 still had the masks on. Her teacher also had the mask on all day.

And that's fine so long as it's a personal choice.

However, the attitudes from some of the pro-mask folks in the lead up to today is concerning and even now some are still lashing out.

I wouldn't - just enjoy it! That balance will shift over the coming days. The Irish are very slow to move against the herd and find safety in conformity, but as more people ditch them so too will these others find themselves not wanting to be left behind either.

You keep fighting the "daily numbers" war. 👍

ICU numbers are plummeting despite "de numbers". I suppose some people will take a while to come around after the fear and doom mongering of the last 2 years.

I will when I'm at the doctors

Both of these reports don't mention the death numbers, why is that.

This month nearly 400 people are reported to have die with/from/etc Covid. While this often relates to past months, but you would expect that the death numbers would have declined in terms of reported numbers.

No they have been updating them everyday for the last fortnight days except for weekends like cases.

Its hard for the number of deaths to decline much further when the deaths themselves are vastly over stated.

Same with hospital numbers, naturally there will be a certain amount of people admitted to hospital who happen to have covid so the hospital numbers probably won’t decline at the pace we’ve seen before

Theres no longer a want or need to report single figure deaths from a mild disease on national tv every day 

There are 30,000 deaths a year. Why don’t we broadcast the daily deaths of cancers and heart related diseases every day? These numbers are multiple times more than the over exaggerated covid deaths yet they don’t make daily headline news. 

If you want to find the weekly deaths they can be accessed online. Theres no need for it to be broadcasted on national tv

Supervalu this evening had 75% wearing (about the same for the staff)

Pharmacy next door still had all the mandatory mask signs up with all staff wearing masks. A little old lady at the counter with zero fks given gave me the confidence to go in without mine too.