What are your views on masks? Will you still wear a mask in public if it's not required?

I'll wear one around people who ask as well as into stores that are requiring one.

Other than that I don't really bother to wear one. I'm in my 20's and great physical condition, and I find myself chuckling at both people in my own demographic boat who go overboard with the masks and PPE as well as fat boomers who aren't wearing one.

EDIT/Update: I've been wearing one more recently, cant tell you why
 
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Vault Boy said:
I'm tolerant of wearing masks for the sake of my family and grocery store guidelines.

What I don't like are the state governments and "experts" dragging their heels when it comes to reopening, we should be further along than we are right now. If they're going to mandate these masks, they should at least speed things along so that we can get back to normal sooner.

It isn't just annoyance on my end, the economy will get worse if we keep cowering and shutting down at every "spike".
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It was too much too soon for too long. And when the data proved them wrong they drug their feet in reacting. Now people don't want to listen and don't trust them.

The whole goalpost moving from "slow the virus" to "stop the virus" was a huge mistake in hindsight.
 
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I don’t really go many places as it is, so wearing a mask hasn’t been that much of an issue. I wear one grocery shopping or when going to other public places though. It will be nice when masks aren’t required anymore, but I’ll put up with it because it beats having everything locked down.
 
I spent the money in February to buy a bunch of p100 respirators and goggles like everyone was suggested to do. Damned if I'm not going to get my money's worth out of that stuff. And besides, I like walking into places that require masks like the bank and post office while wearing my full respirator and goggles setup just to make them all feel uneasy.

The half mask respirator on its own is not too frightening to most people, but I find that adding the goggles really turns heads and gives off a hostile impression. Really freaks out the panhandlers and vagrants, too.
 
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I've been working from home and ordering almost everything online for years so the lockdown hasn't affected me at all but when I do go outside I don't wear a mask. I don't even have a mask. nobody tells me what to do. I thought about getting a p100 respirator but as someone mentioned above they don't work with beards.
 
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I wear mine when I have to (stores, public transportation etc) but also in bigger crowds aka inside of the city where it's not mandatory here (yet?). I don't wear one when I'm out and about without anyone else around.

This might be TMI, but my reasons for it are a bit different: I have a phobia that's related to germs (I won't go into details). I know that masks won't help much with it - just being able to cover my nose/face with a mask and having a 'filter' between me and the germs is more a relief than a restriction. I know it's irrational; that's what phobias are.
 
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I personally just flex my Airboss LBM gas mask, as intimidating and autistic it may seem, when going onto massive shopping areas like Costco. It's viable especially when the hygiene in such places are absolute dogshit.
 
Homoerotic Cougar-kun said:
If mask usage is mandatory to access a service, I'll wear one. Otherwise, I don't give a single solitary shit.
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That's what I am doing. Stores and busses. Although I see people without them and I guess that some places just don't care enough to enforce it.
 
The state in my country said mask were useless but now they as want to make mask mandatory in some places. :)

When I am outdoors I usally don't wear mask but indoors I use them.
If I have to talk to someone I use a mask just as a sign of respect.
Taking your cap off when you go indoor is retarded but most peoples do it too.
It's not really that bothersome to me so I don't really care.

Yet I have to admit that a lot of people use mask as a mental placebo to feel safe
 
I barely leave the house but I do wear it if I get out of my car when I go out. It's mostly just irritating having my glasses got fogged up, but better safe than sorry. I'm more worried about becoming a carrier and infecting the people I live with than I am about getting sick myself.
 
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Masks and gloves for me. I want to do my part and make sure this virus doesn't spread. Plus, this whole affair has opened my eyes to just how much contamination people expose themselves to on a daily basis. I've noticed my health significantly improve in quarantine without any significant lifestyle changes, and I firmly believe this is because I'm no longer having to deal with various low-level infections caused by mingling with other people in public settings. I find these changes awkward, but I'm happy to deal with it for the benefit it brings.
 
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I only did the absolute minimum I was required to do. When they stopped being mandated I haven't worn one since.
 
ColtWalker1847 said:
I'm masking up right now but it's because cases are spiking where I'm at and the hospitals running out of capacity is a legit worry if things don't settle down. If you had asked me three weeks ago when there was like maybe a dozen people hospitalized in a region of half a million people I would have been the other way because that kind of response was unwarranted.

See, I pay attention to the data then act in a reasonable manner in response to it. Not because of what some talking head dipshit on TV or Mayor McCheese says.
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Hospital numbers are always to be viewed with suspicion because things like "but hospitals are 80-90% full right now" is actually perfectly normal.

As for masks, I use them at work but anywhere else I use the horse mask.
 
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Masks were banned to wear in public for years around here, the fact that this no longer seems to be the case, but it's in fact the INVERSE now is funny as hell to me.
Fucking sucks though how the masks that actually do shit to prevent catching the disease got scalped right as soon as word got out of the coming epidemic/pandemic from people that were deemed as racist against chinese people by the media and health organizations that were also trying to get the same masks everyone else was seeking.
Guess I'll just die of chemical fumes then, thanks scalpers!
 
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