At this point, it feels like its running on sheer momentum. The number of unmasked walking around the street are up. For the most part no one cares.
Fuck it, even the police are walking around with their muzzles on their chins. We are a hot and humid country. No one but the nigger cattle that comprise r/philippines want these things.
Smart bunch. Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have the same year-round hot and humid weather but most people are still unbelievably stupid and continue to wear their masks everywhere, even outdoors where it's no longer required.
Some people could forgive Malaysia and Indonesia since their outdoor mask mandates were only removed on May 1 and May 17, 2022 respectively. Singapore had their (outdoor mask mandate) removed on March 29, 2022. Yet 3 months later, 80-90% of locals continue to wear their masks outdoors. Double maskers and people exercising outside with a mask on are still as present as before (about 2-5% of people).
The good news is fewer people than ever care about enforcing the continued indoor mask mandate. Previously, the only businesses that didn't care about the mandates (and I'm not sure if they ever did in the past 2 years) have been hawker centers/street food sellers. They just want people's fucking business.
Only the Nazis hired and stationed at the entrances to enforce contact tracing check-in, and check and discriminate based on vaccination status (much to the detriment of businesses within malls and eateries) cared the most about mask wearing. Sidenote: I'm very surprised that said checkin/vaccine/mask enforcement was strict the entire time in Malaysia and Indonesia, since those 2 are usually known for being lax and culture of half-assing their jobs. Now those fuckers are gone.
There are more places than ever where you can walk in without a mask, order food or pay for a service, and have a 100% normal interaction. Sadly the employees are usually masked. But lately, there are also restaurants (ranging from low-end, no air conditioning to posh fine dining) where half or more of the wait staff are wearing their face diaper as a chin strap.
You can very much go anywhere now without a mask AT ALL (if you're paranoid, you can just wear it as a chin strap). Keeping in mind that you might need to wear your muzzle briefly in certain public locations like train stations or businesses that hire or are frequented by boomers/Karens (including schools). I guess the partial dropping of the mandate has enabled people to "forget" to wear their face muzzle and "not realize" they entered a shop, while that excuse wasn't possible when the "mask up indoors and outdoors as long as it's not your home" mandate was in place.
