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Post by padresfan619 on May 13, 2022 15:17:30 GMT
The only place I haven’t worn one recently was our public library because besides the librarian my son and I were the only people in the building. We went for their story time for toddlers and we were the only ones who showed up!
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Post by paulao on May 13, 2022 15:18:55 GMT
I'm still wearing a mask. I'm vaccinated, boosted, and getting my second booster Monday. I leave soon for England and prefer not to be sick while on vacation.
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Post by breetheflea on May 13, 2022 15:21:29 GMT
I still wear one. Even if there's no on in the grocery aisle I' m walking down, someone could have been there, sneezed, and left right before me and I just walked into a cloud of Covid germs... That being said, our entire (masked, vaccinated) family of six currently has COVID. Pretty sure one of my kids got it from school while eating lunch... so I guess we don't have to wear them until the next variant shows up (once the 10 days are up). I live in a blue state (Washington), I frequently am the only one in the store wearing a mask, at my kids school the other day (first in person PTA meeting in two years) the only person beside me, wearing one was the PE teacher. Our cases are also shooting up like crazy
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Post by withapea on May 13, 2022 15:31:50 GMT
I’m immunocompromised so we’re all still masking and being cautious.
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Post by theshyone on May 13, 2022 21:22:18 GMT
I still wear one, treatments for Covid is very difficult for people with long qt syndrome, and I live in a place with high numbers and no one cares it seems.
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Post by Gennifer on May 13, 2022 22:34:40 GMT
I was definitely wearing a mask much earlier and later than others in my area, and I haven’t worn a mask for a solid couple of months.
In my area, I would say I maybe see one person masked out of every 150.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2022 23:47:52 GMT
Fucking idiots are spreading it again so we're back to masking up in busy stores.
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Post by mikklynn on May 14, 2022 1:28:37 GMT
Nope. I am still masking in public. Our church still requires them.
Our numbers in Minnesota are back up.
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Post by 950nancy on May 14, 2022 3:14:01 GMT
I see about 5-10% of the people in general wearing masks. I would wear one if I felt I needed to or needed to keep someone safe at home.
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Post by tracylynn on May 14, 2022 3:21:15 GMT
I still wear one. I do curbside when I can, but Costco I have to go in.
I've been somewhat lax at work because there aren't a ton of people there and I only go in once a week. But yesterday I wore it all day except when I ate. My parents came for the weekend and I had coworkers in the office who had just got back from traveling to a State that hasn't believed in Covid since Day 1.
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Post by Katiepotatie on May 14, 2022 3:37:13 GMT
Immunocompromised, vaccinated, boosted, and still wearing mine!
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Post by cycworker on May 14, 2022 4:29:11 GMT
I was at a conference recently & I wore one if I was around others who were wearing one, particularly a friend of mine who I knew was leaving for Disneyland after the conference & had to test negative in order to fly. And if I'm required to wear one, I'll do so happily (doctor's office, physio, etc). Beyond that, I've pretty much stopped wearing one.
That said - I tend to avoid busy times at stores. And I may go back to wearing one more consistently, because my latest bloodwork shows my iron is low again. Grr.
I'm fully vaxxed & I've had a booster. I would admittedly like a second booster soon.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 14, 2022 12:53:14 GMT
I still wear a mask when I go inside, shopping, library, etc. when I’m outside I don’t wear one. I will say that I am one of the few still wearing one. I will go to restaurants so I realize there is a risk. My kids are also in school, the high schooler doesn’t wear a mask, the 2nd grader does wear a mask. Continue to do what makes you comfortable and I don’t think anyone should get offended if you hand them a mask. My sister and her boyfriend just went out to eat for the first time n two years. Took off their masks just to eat. She caught Covid. She had just gotten second booster four days before so not long enough to be effective. Last I heard he was negative. The same thing happened to MIL and FIL when they went on holiday to Spain. Masked everywhere except in the hotel restaurant, and came back with Covid. That was 2 months ago and they're still exhausted. I hope your sister is OK? CardBoxer I checked the website of the hospital group, but it's very generic and hasn't been updated for a year! It only gives advice about masking in the hospital. There's nothing on it about my specific treatment, but there were some links there that did take me down an internet rabbit hole. The general consensus agrees with my understanding of it. I think that because of DH's friend's own experience with his ex's cancer treatment, I was expecting a better understanding, or at least awareness from him. His whole surprise at my request made me wonder whether I was being unnecessarily demanding, but I don't believe I am. Thanks everyone, and hugs to my fellow immunocompromised tribe. I'll be requesting confirmation from the oncologist on Thursday.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on May 14, 2022 13:42:05 GMT
I am and will probably have to for the foreseeable future. Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease around Thanksgiving. Had 6 months of chemo and am now on immunosuppressive meds and will be for life. So I’m not going to have an immune system. I am vaxxed and boosted. I need another booster but my Doc wants me to wait until my steroid dose comes down. My doc also has me on lockdown (only leave the house for medical appointments) until we see if the new med combination is working. I just want to be able to go out! I miss restaurants. Hell, I miss going to my BFF’s house or having her over here.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 14, 2022 13:55:28 GMT
I am and will probably have to for the foreseeable future. Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease around Thanksgiving. Had 6 months of chemo and am now on immunosuppressive meds and will be for life. So I’m not going to have an immune system. I am vaxxed and boosted. I need another booster but my Doc wants me to wait until my steroid dose comes down. My doc also has me on lockdown (only leave the house for medical appointments) until we see if the new med combination is working. I just want to be able to go out! I miss restaurants. Hell, I miss going to my BFF’s house or having her over here. I'm sorry. It stinks, doesn't it? I'm kind of the other way round, because I've been shut in so much that I don't even want to go out any more. Everything hurts. But I do know what you mean. I hope the new meds at least aren't making you feel rubbish on top of everything else. Steroids made me feel shocking.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on May 14, 2022 14:08:40 GMT
I am and will probably have to for the foreseeable future. Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease around Thanksgiving. Had 6 months of chemo and am now on immunosuppressive meds and will be for life. So I’m not going to have an immune system. I am vaxxed and boosted. I need another booster but my Doc wants me to wait until my steroid dose comes down. My doc also has me on lockdown (only leave the house for medical appointments) until we see if the new med combination is working. I just want to be able to go out! I miss restaurants. Hell, I miss going to my BFF’s house or having her over here. I'm sorry. It stinks, doesn't it? I'm kind of the other way round, because I've been shut in so much that I don't even want to go out any more. Everything hurts. But I do know what you mean. I hope the new meds at least aren't making you feel rubbish on top of everything else. Steroids made me feel shocking. Thanks. I’m just being a big baby because I don’t want to wear a mask and I want to be able to do things. Hell, I’d be thrilled just to go to the damn grocery store vs. using Instacart. Today is the perfect example, my BFF’s daughter has a basketball game on Martha’s Vineyard. I would LOVE to go, spend the day, but I can’t take the chance. Her other daughter is graduating from HS and they’re having a party, can’t go. My rheumatologist almost wouldn’t agree to me going to getting my teeth cleaned! I want to get my teeth cleaned. I want to get a facial. I want to get a pedicure. AND I’m an introvert so I’m not someone who’s out and about all the time but to not have the option is frustrating.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 14, 2022 14:14:49 GMT
I'm sorry. It stinks, doesn't it? I'm kind of the other way round, because I've been shut in so much that I don't even want to go out any more. Everything hurts. But I do know what you mean. I hope the new meds at least aren't making you feel rubbish on top of everything else. Steroids made me feel shocking. Thanks. I’m just being a big baby because I don’t want to wear a mask and I want to be able to do things. Hell, I’d be thrilled just to go to the damn grocery store vs. using Instacart. Today is the perfect example, my BFF’s daughter has a basketball game on Martha’s Vineyard. I would LOVE to go, spend the day, but I can’t take the chance. Her other daughter is graduating from HS and they’re having a party, can’t go. My rheumatologist almost wouldn’t agree to me going to getting my teeth cleaned! I want to get my teeth cleaned. I want to get a facial. I want to get a pedicure. AND I’m an introvert so I’m not someone who’s out and about all the time but to not have the option is frustrating. It certainly is. When you're told not to, you crave doing things that you wouldn't bother about normally. But being told not to do them somehow makes those things ridiculously important.
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Post by Zee on May 14, 2022 16:52:34 GMT
I wore one on the plane yesterday and on the train at O'Hare but I was in the minority for sure.
It took one little hack from the guy sitting in front of me and I put it on. Nasty people on planes.
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Post by mariemily on May 14, 2022 17:29:12 GMT
The mask mandate has been lifted today in my province, Quebec. I was just in a store, it was the first time since July 18, 2020, that I could go somewhere without a mask. It felt weird.
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 15, 2022 6:26:45 GMT
I wear mine still. I have noticed a couple of times that I seem to be the only one in Sainsbury’s wearing one.
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Post by zella on May 16, 2022 19:31:07 GMT
Nope. You're not alone. I rarely go anywhere that doesn't require a mask, but when I do, I wear one anyway. More for other people's comfort. I have a terrible cough. Had it for weeks. I'm fully vaccinated and boosted. I've had multiple Covid tests. But I don't want to make people uncomfortable. Plus my immune system isn't the best, so mask it is unless I'm outside and not near strangers. OT Have you talked to a doctor about whether you might have cough variant asthma? It’s often missed, though I was told about 10% of people with asthma have it, often only showing up after a cold, or sometimes in very cold weather. No restricted breathing. It took a fourth pulmonologist to diagnose me correctly after I once coughed for 8 months, and had even been hospitalized. And he guessed what was wrong in a couple of minutes. After using two standard inhalers, the next day I was about 85% better. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve run into that have had the same thing happen - weeks or longer of coughing, including a nurse at Johns Hopkins, of all places. Funny you should say that, I do have cough variant asthma. Basically all our family does, and yes, it is often missed and dismissed, even by asthma/allergy doctors. My brother had it as a child and wasn't diagnosed, and I expect he still has it if he's alive. I developed it in my 20's. Older DD I think was older like me when she got it. Younger DD had RSV at 4 months and has had it ever since. My sister had it too. Usually we're fine unless we get a cold, then we cough so much, need steroids, Rx cough medicine on top of inhalers. Last time I was actually hospitalized and had nebulized morphine my cough was so bad. Never knew nebulized morphine was a thing. Yeah, we all use inhalers. This cough, though, didn't start with a cold, steroids and inhalers haven't helped. It's a bitch. When I first got the bad cough, 2 years in a row I coughed for 6 months running. No kidding. It was hell. I'm sorry you have to deal with this crap too. Beats me how we can cough so much and have 98% oxygenation. It's so weird.
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Post by gizzy on May 16, 2022 19:45:17 GMT
We've not masked unless it's required or store owners put signs up requesting that you mask.
I have to say, I'm surprised by your DH's friend being so surprised & offended that you asked him to wear one in your car. Surely he knows what you've been going through. Especially since he's been having to navigate this taking care of his ex. Why is it okay to protect her but not you?
edited to add that I forgot we did mask up while flying recently.
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Post by workingclassdog on May 16, 2022 19:49:20 GMT
I can understand why you would want to wear yours or other people in similar situations. I do see people with masks on still but it is a very low %. Maybe 5%, if that.
I'm going on a big vacation next week and thinking about at least wearing one on the plane but will that make a difference? I dunno.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 16, 2022 20:37:09 GMT
We've not masked unless it's required or store owners put signs up requesting that you mask. I have to say, I'm surprised by your DH's friend being so surprised & offended that you asked him to wear one in your car. Surely he knows what you've been going through. Especially since he's been having to navigate this taking care of his ex. Why is it okay to protect her but not you? edited to add that I forgot we did mask up while flying recently. Thank you. I wondered if the friend might have taken offence at my implying that he wasn't 'clean'. But I know he's been going into the office where they don't wear masks, which is how my DH caught it. He was going for a meal in a busy restaurant with my DH, obviously unmasked, and that made me realise that he isn't being careful any more. DH recently had Covid so he isn't going to get it again for a while, but his friend hasn't. I was just really taken aback that he had been wonderful about asking me how my treatment is going and apparently understanding my replies, and driving his ex to her chemo appointments, yet evidently hadn't really understood that I'm still vulnerable, whatever the government has advised everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2022 21:00:34 GMT
We've not masked unless it's required or store owners put signs up requesting that you mask. I have to say, I'm surprised by your DH's friend being so surprised & offended that you asked him to wear one in your car. Surely he knows what you've been going through. Especially since he's been having to navigate this taking care of his ex. Why is it okay to protect her but not you? edited to add that I forgot we did mask up while flying recently. Thank you. I wondered if the friend might have taken offence at my implying that he wasn't 'clean'. But I know he's been going into the office where they don't wear masks, which is how my DH caught it. He was going for a meal in a busy restaurant with my DH, obviously unmasked, and that made me realise that he isn't being careful any more. DH recently had Covid so he isn't going to get it again for a while, but his friend hasn't. I was just really taken aback that he had been wonderful about asking me how my treatment is going and apparently understanding my replies, and driving his ex to her chemo appointments, yet evidently hadn't really understood that I'm still vulnerable, whatever the government has advised everyone else. If you feel safer wearing one, I would carry on. If you feel safer in asking someone else to wear one when they are in close proximity of you, just ask them. If they don't like it - tough luck then they don't get to ride in your car! It annoys me when others think they have a right to decide what is best for other people. I wouldn't dream of not complying with your request. In fact I have done so on a couple of occasions when we have visited DH's uncle a couple of weeks ago who has COPD ( fibrosis of the lungs) He didn't ask us to put one on but DH and I felt we should. The relaxation of the mask mandate by the government was that it was no longer illegal to not wear one, not that we were not allowed to or advised not wear one at all. Stay safe.
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Post by Nanner on May 17, 2022 0:21:42 GMT
I still wear a mask, and it's mandatory in my office.
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Post by gizzy on May 17, 2022 2:38:51 GMT
Thank you. I wondered if the friend might have taken offence at my implying that he wasn't 'clean'. But I know he's been going into the office where they don't wear masks, which is how my DH caught it. He was going for a meal in a busy restaurant with my DH, obviously unmasked, and that made me realise that he isn't being careful any more. DH recently had Covid so he isn't going to get it again for a while, but his friend hasn't. I was just really taken aback that he had been wonderful about asking me how my treatment is going and apparently understanding my replies, and driving his ex to her chemo appointments, yet evidently hadn't really understood that I'm still vulnerable, whatever the government has advised everyone else. Hopefully, it was just a momentary lapse & he just "forgot" that you're still having treatment. Like he knows you're having treatment but his brain clicked off & there was a disconnect and his look of surprise was more of a "oh, that's right!" type of thing. Your comment about being "clean" reminded me of a family member. When this started, we had the hardest time getting her to understand that just because we needed to be socially distanced, didn't mean that we thought she was dirty. She acted so hurt.
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