Face Masks - Page 2

Wearing masks should be a voluntary action,what should be mandatory is washing ,disinfecting hands when exiting shops,buses,buildings and bars,sadly lacking at the moment amongst all nationalities.Covid ,if it still has to be referred to ,has changed and is  mild, for most people,at its worst it was serious for about 2% of the population ,yes people died with or as a result of Covid,people also died of old age ,car accidents and we accept this as part of the way of life, for those involved it was dreadful but not unusual, we are all mortal.

The challenge for all is to relinquish the wearing of masks and the feeling that without it ," you will die" and that wearing it you are on a higher moral plain.I will continue to wear one on a bus during the coughing and sneezing seasons .Yes I have had the latest "Covid/Omnicron" ,no big deal,a slight cold of about a week's duration.It is time to move on and ditch the fear of venturing out into the sunlight.

Infection rates are actually meaningless and good on the UK for discontinuing it's daily morbid recital on the media,infected with a mild virus not so long ago would have not stopped anyone working,3 years of endless fear mongering has produced a feeling amongst many that "feeling  unwell" ,the new " bad back",must be Covid, is an excuse to not to work and to expect sympathy from colleagues.

We are all individuals and are responsible for our own health,being old does not mean being frail ,in the vast majority of cases lifestyles chosen and indulged in affect your health,it is never to late to change,wearing a mask is not a " get out of gaol free" card.

Hello

 It's not a 'challenge'. for me to stop wearing a mask & I  don't feel I'm on a higher moral plain. I think some of your post is very  sarastiic--- ' fear of venturing out into the sunlight'....nonsense  & quite rude. 

My life goes on quite normally...I live here, not just exist .  You  don't want to wear  a mask...  but don't judge people  like me, who do!

Cheers

Elinspain

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Not true, the people that are being offered a second booster are those who are immunosupressed and those over 40 with downs syndrome.

So people who are at very high risk.

Just a message to everyone in Spain, "living with Covid" policy pursed by UK gov of infecting everyone for herd immunity resulted in 348 recorded death over the weekend.  Wear a mask, save lives.  Covid is airborne and has not gone away. Wearing masks, especially FFP2 / 3 helps.

But also keep in mind that the efficacy of masks is nowhere near 100% and that COVID barely features in the WHO top 20 conditions that kill. Don’t fall for the ‘herd immunity’ rhetoric - just take a balanced, well informed approach and use your own judgement.

Whilst nothing has 100% efficacy against Covid, masks do help and herd immunity that I am referring to is the free for all in England, which has had a large impact on infections, deaths etc and the impact of LongCovid which has not been researched sufficiently.  In any case, masks do help even if not 100% but they do help and anything you by can do to potentially prevent infecting someone else is useful. As Covid is airborne, wearing a mask does help.

Hi,

   the rise in infections in the UK has more to do with the Ba2 covid variant than relaxing mask wearing rules, it is a very infectious strain. Maybe try telling the 25 million people currently locked down in Shanghai that masks prevent transmission. 

  The UK along with several other European countries have decided that the time is right to relax the covid rules, I for one agree. People are still free to wear masks if they so desire, and many in the UK do still wear them.

Aitch.

Thats an estimate as hardly anyone tests anymore as free tests have finished. 

For Covid read , mild viral infection,similar to the old " cold" that before the Pandemic so beloved of the media,people just got on with things and carried a Paracetamol and a packet of tissues .Does no one remember the times when everyone caught a cold and thought nothing of it?

Families and friends of over 180k do not feel it is just flu that can be sorted with paracetamol and tissues. You must have your head deep in the sand not to understand the impact of this pandemic.