Michael
𝐓𝐈𝐓Δ𝐍𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 
Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)
River 
@thetitanborn There was a brief period that I had stopped (that I’m not proud of…) but after my mother, daughter, and I had covid that rebounded right into RSV for my little one, I changed that up real quick!!
Raulo@thetitanborn that's a poor poll
torqI missed where it says this is a poll.
The Evil Microwizard
ProgGrrl@thetitanborn I stopped carefully masking indoors for one week and got covid 5 days later. Sigh. So that one week in August 2022 is the only time I stopped doing it.
Saadya Windauer@ProgGrrl @thetitanborn oh wow. Mee too. In October 22. Now masks stick too me again.
Em@ProgGrrl @thetitanborn the only time I didn’t mask, I came down with Covid three days later. I’d got onto a jam packed train and couldn’t even move to get my backpack off to get my mask out, we were that squished together. I usually wear a KN95 and have twice been the only person in my group to wear one when they all caught Covid, so I’m pretty sure the mask did the job both times. Just typical that one day I got caught out!
Deborah@thetitanborn absolutely!
Pushka@thetitanborn I started again .. I had stopped .. if you find me in a crowded area .. heck yes .. plus believe it or not I work for a place in Texas that it is still mandatory at work. That was shocking to me. I'm grateful people are aware and kind about it.
Sannuba 💚@thetitanborn Danish person living in Copenhagen here. I rarely see people wearing masks anymore. Most people in DK are vaccinated and boosted 2-4 times. Also most people I know have had both the vaccine and the virus. I don’t even think people are getting tested unless they have a hospital appointment.
Math Lover@sannuba @thetitanborn is there any awareness about long Covid there? The vaccine doesn’t prevent it, sadly
@Mathlover @thetitanborn well.. it’s not like I haven’t heard about it, but it is not very present in the media or in my circles. I don’t think I know anyone with those complications personally. I also don’t know anyone who died from Covid. I know people who know someone, but only a few.
@sannuba @thetitanborn you will likely see more people who die of heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism and etc as a result of long Covid. I suggest reading the research findings of Dr. Akiko Iwasaki of Yale as it is very concerning for everyone. I think most people would be masking if they knew what the real risks of long Covid are.
@Mathlover @thetitanborn maybe… I couldn’t tell. From my perspective in my personal and professional life it would be very difficult to continue to mask up. My whole society around me is past the stage, and now we fill our heads with other fears.
😻🇨🇦MimzyDub🇨🇦😻@thetitanborn to be honest, for me, it all depends in where I'm going, whether I know the other people there, and how crowded it is. Also, I tend to avoid places that are crowded anyways since I don't like crowds, but if I have no choice and really have to be in a crowded environment, then I wear a mask. I play it by ear as far as mask wearing goes, partly since I have problems breathing with a mask on, which is one reason I rarely go out to places where I'd be inclined to wear one.
mirabilos@thetitanborn sometimes even outdoors
witchlectical runeterialist@thetitanborn i have not gotten covid and i will never get covid 
M Ross@anna @thetitanborn Asymptomatic people are the worst spreaders.
Calum@anna @thetitanborn Who said anything about Covid? If it means I don't catch a shitty cold over Christmas, or pass something I don't even know I have yet on to some old dear on the bus, it's worth it.
Karsten™️@scottishwildcat @anna @thetitanborn this has been a wonderful side effect of the Covid Era. My wife teaches 2nd grade, and she used to bring home every disease her little plague rats caught. Now that she wears a mask while she teaches, she hasn't caught anything from them. 3 disease-free years!
@anna @thetitanborn never say never. I wear a mask every time I'm in public, but I still caught it on a trip to Vegas. I wore an N95 the whole trip except for the brief time it took to eat meals, and that was enough to catch it. Luckily, I had just been boosted, so I had a very mild case, but Long Covid still makes it hard to run 6 months later. Stay masked, and keep getting booster shots!
@karstenbondy @thetitanborn well yeah covid doesn't stop just because you need to eat. i don't eat in public anymore, period
@daraghhayes@anna @karstenbondy @thetitanborn yeah, I've been doing take-out or only uncrowded outdoor patios about once or twice a summer since Covid started. I eat in my car when at work. So far, no Covid that I know of in my family.
Arugula@thetitanborn My girlfriend is immune comprised. No one at my school masks. Its so fucking stressful every time I'm in a crowded area where I'm the only one wearing a mask. I'm aware I'm preaching to the choir, but PLEASE everyone reading this continue to mask. COVID is not a fucking joke.
Stybba3019@thetitanborn I'm masking right now.
I am fully vaxxed & boosted and I always mask when I'm in public indoors spaces. So far, no Covid, flu, RSV or other respiratory illness.
TiaRobina
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)@thetitanborn Never stopped; it's required where I work and I'm a strap-hanger where masks make sense on crowded transit, so wearing one elsewhere is second nature.
Hera@thetitanborn Bold of you to assume I leave my home
(Not because of Covid I'm just a NEET)
(Not because of Covid I'm just a NEET)
@alfredohno @thetitanborn touch girls
@twinkle_mouse @thetitanborn Oh I have a girlfriend she's just a cis boy and also a shutin.
We stay inside together :D
We stay inside together :D
@alfredohno @thetitanborn still what i said >:3
@twinkle_mouse @thetitanborn Don't worry we cuddle plenty ~w~
food in training@thetitanborn in and out, because why wouldn't i?
Patrick McLaughlin@thetitanborn
I’m masking in public places out of doors, too.
The Chinese proved dozens of cases from brief outdoor exposure to a jogger passing by within about a meter, in a park.
If there are people anywhere nearby, I’m masking.
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TransitBiker@McPatrick @thetitanborn there’s also proof that infectious aerosols travel out of buildings from open windows & doors as well as longer distances in wind horizontally. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2021.666923/full #covid #aerosols
Outdoor Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Among Apartments in High-Density Cities
The coronaviruses have inflicted health and societal crises in recent decades. Both SARS CoV-1 and 2 are suspected to spread through outdoor routes in high-density cities, infecting residents in apartments on separate floors or in different buildings in many superspreading events, often in the absence of close personal contact. The viability of such mode of transmission is disputed in the research literature, and there is little evidence on the dose–response relationship at the apartment level. This paper describes a study to examine the viability of outdoor airborne transmission between neighboring apartments in high density cities. A first-principles model, airborne transmission via outdoor route (ATOR), was developed to simulate airborne pathogen generation, natural decay, outdoor dispersion, apartment entry, and inhalation exposure of susceptible persons in neighboring apartments. The model was partially evaluated using a smoke tracer experiment in a mock-up high-density city site and cross-checking using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. The ATOR model was used to retrospectively investigate the relationship between viral exposure and disease infection at an apartment level in two superspreading events in Hong Kong: the SARS outbreak in Amoy Gardens and the COVID-19 outbreak in Luk Chuen House. Logistic regression results suggested that the predicted viral exposure was positively correlated with the probability of disease infection at apartment level for ...
@McPatrick @thetitanborn well China is rather populated too. I wear mine in public.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@thetitanborn I don't. Because I don't go indoors in public places. Because it's not safe. Because covid.
MisaMisa ✅@thetitanborn https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/uncommon-sense/episodes/22915-uncommon-sense-6-december-2022
Programs: Uncommon Sense – 6 December 2022, Uncommon Sense — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
With the pandemic far from over, Professor Brendan Crabb, CEO and Director of the Burnet Institute speaks in-depth about the scientific reality of COVID-19 for everyone in Australia right now. Professor Chris Wallace…
Kathy in KY@thetitanborn Yes, still masking in public indoor places because I really don't want to pick up any of the things that are floating around at this time of year.
On the other hand, husband picked up Covid the other day at a 3-person rehearsal. He's fully boosted with a recent bivalent boost and his experience with Covid was very mild. He's had other colds recently that were much rougher.
I'd really rather not have any of that. So I wear my mask.
@Kathy_in_KY @thetitanborn the issue with Covid is that your initial symptoms can be almost nothing - meanwhile your brain, blood vessels & heart are being irreparably damaged & you won’t know till you suddenly can’t remember how to cook your favorite meal or end up on the floor from stroke or PE weeks or months later.
Laura@thetitanborn I’m vaxxed and bivalent boosted and I don’t want Covid, so yes. Even more importantly, I have seasonal allergies that have all my life caused a constant low level stuffy nose with occasional coughs and sneezing. I worry I could be more of a danger to others if I had it and didn’t know yet, due to that. Masks keep the folks around me safer from me, too.
izzy the wizzy@thetitanborn I work retail and I always get people asking "Wait, are we supposed to be wearing masks again?" and like... I never stopped? I'm talking to hundreds a day, and my boss is forcing people to come in coughing with fevers. I don't have an option if I want to stay healthy.
Lady Guru@fynewis @thetitanborn I also work in retail. We never stopped wearing masks in my store. I have one staff member out with covid, it's been 14 days, no one else got it, even though half of the staff worked with the covid positive person the day before her symptoms started. Masks work. We get the "are we required to wear masks" question too. But we also have a lot of our customers thanking us for continuing to wear masks!
MaryBrigid@thetitanborn I work in retail, and travel on public transport every day and gave not stopped wearing a mask
Andrés BrillanteThanks for your post @thetitanborn. Not much masking happening in California at all, except a few people. How are things in your area?
Jayne 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈CV so still masking indoors (in public and private places, especially during winter when ventilation is poor).
Still masking outdoors when in close proximity to others 👍
And…still greatly restricting activities as I cannot afford to be infected.
I would love to go to a concert or the cinema or a restaurant, but I can’t risk it until venues have “CV/CEV friendly” performances/events 🤷
KitsyPlease boost if you are using a HEPA/UV-C filter unit in your home.
KontributeGaming@thetitanborn my son and I have been wearing them the entire pandemic, I haven't caught covid but he has once and that's it.
I think we might be the only ones in our entire suburb but I don't care.
If 1 person doesn't (or hasn't) gotten a disability or died because we didn't catch it and pass it on it's worth it.
If 1 person chooses to start wearing mask because of our example it's worth it.
Kent Brewster@thetitanborn absolutely. I f I get it I do NOT want to give it to anyone else.
Antifascist Atha Ahuluheluw@thetitanborn I left it off a couple of weeks ago in church and still suffering from that mistake.
GlenJG21@thetitanborn I sure am - double masking indoors, in fact ! Solo caregiver for my Mom, must do all I can to protect myself, and her <3
Eliot 'Dukov' Earle@thetitanborn I was the only person wearing a mask on the bus to work this morning, does that count?
OuisaOpalescent@Spadge @thetitanborn Just curious. But did the other passengers sneer at you? It's just that when you heard the truth about the parties and the yarns that the government were spinning, it's become difficult to decipher what the frig else was an actual lie. Not attempting to resuscitate was appalling!
@OuisaOpalescent @thetitanborn not that I noticed.
John Caveney woke is me🛠️@thetitanborn thanks for the follow! Brexit was a folly forced upon us by charlatans and xenophobes.
Drooling Fan Girl@thetitanborn In the states, one option for getting masks is Project n95. It’s a non profit place to buy masks online.
Wikicedar the Trans Enby 
@thetitanborn With my N99!
Central&Western Archive Social@thetitanborn Still masking EVERYWHERE except when I am by myself in my own whare. Also asked my makau to please mask when he is in risky situations so he can protect me.
Michael Stanclift@thetitanborn starting to again