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

Have seen less people wearing masks today, I think as the days roll on less and less people will be wearing them. Was in a circle k today, about 10 customers in the shop and not a mask to be seen

Pointless even trying to explain to some here , Tom .

Imagine the same posters who keep posting that others are 'brainwashed ' because they CHOOSE to keep wearing a mask in certain situations , but they themselves are posting about not wearing a mask if not legally enforceable in a healthcare situation with the most vulnerable people ?!

So much traffic on here from posters "who don't care about masks anymore " yet are watching what others do and commenting about it and questioning their intelligence .. the same posters who have been incessantly posting about " freedom" throughout the last 2 years .

How about other people's right not to read such hypocrisy ? Its freedom for only people who agree, is it?

But sure why wear it on a flight if you won't wear one in a healthcare situation? Oh maybe because you'd get your axx kicked off pretty quick but you will be the big man fronting up to healthcare workers ?

If you want to wear a mask, wear it . If you don't want to , don't .

People's reasons are their own and as its personal choice its nobody's business one way or the other .

But for anybody to come on here after 2 years of this and say they won't respect that healthcare situations require masks, is a complete and utter miscreant who deserves no regard .

Like you would know tbh after a post like that .

The previous one was not addressed to you , but you rant away about others ranting . A post trying to make mine personal I think but fail as it does not apply to me . A load of rubbish about HCWs and the health system showing yourself up I think .

Another one shouting into the abyss Amadan . Masks are gone for you and most. Be happy and try not to be trying to bring people down.

I don't want restrictions back or continuing, as you would know if you had read my posts,but there are still risks to vulnerable especially in healthcare.

If those people want to or need to wear masks leave them and leave them be .

I wear a mask everyday at work but don't wish that on others. Where or when have I said that?

I was addressing a poster who was referring to the premise that it was not a legal requirement to wear a mask in such circumstances and as such they would not be doing so!

What you and that poster fail to understand if you think you don't have to wear a mask to protect those people in that environment ,is that any person may be infected now asymptomatic and not wearing masks in that environment is risking the health of people immunocompromised etc , who do not react well to any Covid infection, a risk healthcare will not take .

I have to think that this is a wind up really by you and that other poster because it is hard to believe that level of ignorance is persisting at this late stage .

So get over it , if you need hospital or any other medical care ..masks there ain't going anywhere for the time being .

C. Maybe its the Covid Fairy?

Honestly couldn't make it up... Sounds like a line from Trump back in the bleach injection days.

And that is why it's pointless still trying to explain after 2 years. Ignore and let these people off, you can't teach the blindly selfish. Honestly, people who wanted the masks gone seem to be making the most noise about masks being gone now.

The wife and I are both fully vaccinated, but both caught CoVid in January. I was surprised at how different symptoms were for us both. Neither of us have any underlying conditions, but for the wife, it wasn't even like a bad cold, it was like a pretty minor cold, albeit with a small residual cough that lasted a bit longer. I had a fever to the point I was hallucinating, a very severe cough, could barely make it out of bed for days and when I did, walking from the bedroom to the sitting room would have me exhausted. I was feeling fatigued and weak for weeks afterwards. Difficult to ascertain why our responses were so different.

That being said, having now been fully vaccinated AND recovered quite recently, I'm not terribly worried about catching it again, and reckon I'm unlikely to be a transmission risk for others for a while and I rather enjoyed popping down to do the shopping without having a mask on. If I suspected I had it again, I'd isolate and probably stick an aul mask on for a week or two afterwards.

I still leave some in the car and it wouldn't bother me at all if someone still worried about it asked me to wear mine in their place of business and I've no issue wearing one in a healthcare setting.

Huge variations it would seem. SuperValu here was 90% wearing masks yesterday.

That’s a change from the masked crusaders crying about naked faces over the last 2 years.

We seem to be early adopters of change. Remember when the Euro rolled out & there was meant to be a 6 week transition with the punt. About 3 days in there wasn't a punt left in the country.

I've just been in the Centra on the Monread road in Naas, 1pm rush hour, not a single person wore a mask

It does appear that chemists are particularly dangerous. Pubs are grand.

actually chemist are probably slightly more risky as many people with cold symptoms will be going in for meds

Plus many elderly and vulnerable need to go into chemists and unlikely to go into pubs as much . So i will protect them when I see fit .

But dont let that stand in your way of being critical .

Try reading it again.. particularly the bolded parts. Answers are within!

Firstly , don't be talking about high horses when you are very much in danger of falling yourself there !

There are some who have moralised about mask wearing ..few ... vast majority who are for mask wearing in their own particular circumstances have good reason which they should not have to explain to anybody frankly ...none of their business .

That out of the way, the issue here for me is not others NOT wearing a mask nor have I ever entered the fray as regards those who do not wear them or wear them properly.

The guidance has been there and there are always people who will disagree and as we have seen that was a small minority although vocal on these threads .

I disagree with your comment as regards people' going against 'NPHET advice now.

The advice is precisely that those who choose to wear one should do so , especially in enclosed indoor spaces like busy shops and transport , and if immunocompromised or vulnerable .

The only people who seem to have a problem here with others choosing to wear a mask apears to those who have been advocating " freedom" all along .

From what I have read most people have done what they do, and will do with no reference to those minority anti everything folk , and now have moved on . No " fear " , just common sense .

Maybe you should try your own advice there . Not good for your mental health to be worrying about what others do all the time /s

@hotmail.com its not the premises themselves ie pubs and pharmacies .

It's the type of people that have to go into pharmacies for their meds as I think you know.