Masks
Covid numbers have been rising in Japan, and maybe everywhere else too. I read that some places in the US want to reinstate mask mandates. I can guess how well that will go over.
In Japan, people have been wearing masks since the beginning of the pandemic with no mandates. Community pressure and concern for others make people wear masks and continue to do so. The government has been requesting people to take off the masks if they are outside and distanced from others in order to prevent heat stroke, but I don't think any Japanese people are doing it. I see people riding bicycles, running, driving cars alone, working in gardens - all wearing masks.
I asked one of my students who lives very close to work if he still wears a mask when he walks to work. He said of course! He can't let his neighbors see him without a mask. Community pressure.
I don't wear a mask when I am outside and no one else is around. I always carry it by the elastic, just in case though. I'm not crazy about masks, but I do care about not getting infected and I care about other people feeling safe around me. I wouldn't think about going inside the grocery store or the post office or other place without one. And, I never see anyone inside these places with a bare face. Never.
I made two new cloth masks. If I am in a place that I can get out of if I think it is crowded, I wear a cloth mask. If I am somewhere I can't get out, like the train or the Immigration Office, I double mask with a cloth mask over a KN95.
What is the mask situation where you are? How do you feel about wearing or not wearing masks at this point in the pandemic?
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Here politicians and health authorities are disagreeing over re-introduction of mandates. Personally I don't care if there is a mandate or not, I'm wearing an N95 mask inside everywhere.
British people couldnt wait to stop wearing masks and although you still see people around wearing them it is usually those with other health concerns, or carers, who are wearing them. Covid numbers here are slowly rising as more people are socialising over the summer but there is no talk of reintroducing mask wearing.
I am wearing a disposable mask but what worries me is that people wearing homemade cloth masks are not washing them each day, I wear a clean mask each time I go out. I am starting to get a little worried about the covid cases that are rising here.
My impression from reading Swedish newspapers is that NO ONE wears a mask, except hospital staff.
Hi Pamela: We do and will not wear a mask, its just that bodies produce carbon dioxide which needs to be expelled from the body, if not expelled it can cause damage, we will wear one if we are at the clinic or hospital.
Ther has been an uptick of lung problems due to the wearing of masks.
If the US puts on another mask mandate there are so many that will cause problems in the street, it scares me so much.
Many young people are talking about maybe having to wear a mask in school this fall, they will rebel if having to do so.
It scary.
Have a great day.
Catherine
I wear masks in any public crowd or indoors if there is a large group of people whose protocols I don't know well. I always wear an N95 or -- on occasion -- a K95. It kills me because I have so many cute fabric masks, but they say they don't help with omicron or the BA strain. That may be right or wrong but I don't want to take a chance. I change my masks regularly. I know you can only get so much use, even out of a close N95. I wish there was a mask mandate here but it won't happen in Michigan.
In Germany, most mask mandates are lifted, except for medical offices/hospitals and public transport, where we need to wear FFP2 masks still. I also wear them when going shopping or anyplace crowded, although not mandated anymore. But not many people do.
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