Kathy SeilerJul 24, 2023
MOULE 
Do you still #WearAMask? 😷 Boosts encouraged to increase sample size! #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #Pandemic #Virus #Coronavirus #Mask #FaceMask #Survey #Poll
Yes
39.1%
Sometimes
36.7%
No
24.3%
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Jul 24, 2023 at 11:22amWeb
Show threadScott M. Jul 24, 2023

@MOULE

I think everyone who wears a mask fits under "Sometimes", but I voted "Yes" as I wear it always when indoors in public.

I do not wear it outdoors (I would consider doing so if I was in a super crowded area, but I tend to avoid those) and I don't wear it at home (but I do wear it in the common areas of my building).

Show threadJacqueline JannottaJul 24, 2023
@apukwa @MOULE ditto this. (So I didn’t vote.)
Show threadThomas E. GladwinJul 24, 2023
@MOULE I interpreted "always" as "where I feel it's long-term high-risk not to", e.g., public transport. I'm always using at least one of antiviral nose spray or nasal filter in public.
Show threadartisanroxJul 24, 2023

@MOULE

Unfortunately for the summer my office is waaaaaaay too hot and I've stopped masking there. I know this is not the most optimal thing.....but it's getting to be pointless to wear a KN95 when it's so hot all the time I'm always mooching with it/removing it every 5min when no one is around.

I do mask everywhere else though, because most other places have better air contioning.

In the fall when the weather is cooler I am definitely going to back to wearing it all the time.

1/2

Show threadartisanroxJul 24, 2023

@MOULE

2/2

i think an important overlooked aspect of wearing respirators is to keep indoor temps comfortable enough to not discourage their use.....besides the filtering effect AC has, keeping the inside of a building (especially older buildings) at a reasonable temperature helps prevent illness as it doesn't discourage respirator use.

Show threadcally🇧🇷😺Jul 24, 2023
@MOULE I only wear a mask when I'm sick, so I put "no" because I don't get sick often
Show threadColorblind CowboyJul 24, 2023
@MOULE Yurp! I’ve got a big ol’ Airhead mask and I wear it everywhere, sure as I wear a hat when the sun shines (and a lot of other times too).
Show threadmav Jul 24, 2023
@MOULE Literally no one here does at all, so wearing one is *mostly* pointless. I did for a long time, much longer than most, but here in Idaho government and healthcare has effectively given up at all levels. There's no data tracking in any consistent/reliable sense anyway, so it's also impossible to tell how serious it is.
Show threadyuvipandaJul 24, 2023
@MOULE indoors when not with friends where we had pre-agreed to not wear them
Show threadShantell PowellJul 24, 2023
@MOULE I wear it indoors for COVID and outdoors for smoke.
Show threadSkulldogJul 24, 2023

@MOULE

Public transit, flights, medical centers/doctors/pharmacies, tight spaces with lots of people. (And a given, if I feel even vaguely sick when required to be out in public) YES.

Outdoors, low volume indoor spaces I can stay six feet away, hanging with a few friends at home, no.

Keeping the high risk spaces more safe for the disabled peeps around me, and I always carry a mask with me. In case things change.

Show threadC.S.StrowbridgeJul 24, 2023

@[email protected]
I always put on a mask before leaving my apartment. However, I only put it over my face when I go indoors or when there's a crowd.

I voted yes, because I never leave my apartment without it.

Show threadHolly 🇨🇦Jul 24, 2023
@MOULE Does it count if you’re wearing an N95 more bc you’re surrounded by forest fires and less bc of Covid? For fire smoke- always, for Covid- sometimes.
Show threadNed YeungJul 24, 2023

@MOULE

Not sure if I should answer Yes or Sometimes, as I do not wear it like I did during the pandemic but I have different reasons to wear it, including indoor crowds (from grocery stores to public transit) for COVID to outdoors when the wildfire smoke is bad, to BBQing or turning compost, to public washrooms just 'cause a PM2.5 carbon-filter makes them so much nicer to be in.

So much less for Covid but not much less overall, and still for Covid sometimes. Not for work or small gatherings.

Show threadSevennahJul 24, 2023
@[email protected] Yes, always, even outside when going for a walk. Given the amount of asymptomatic transmission there is, better to be safe than sorry. N95 all the way! I value my brain cells.
Show threadJust a PumpkinJul 24, 2023

@MOULE never leave home without it

I've had #MEcfs for 20+years. I see the similarities with long covid. I see thousands of people who may never recover, with symptoms just like mine. I see a lot of people who don't know the potential consequences or think they'll be exempt

Wear your mask.

Show threadElizabeth WinterJul 24, 2023
@[email protected] I just got back from getting something notarized. Masked up to do it.
Show threadBetween WanderingsJul 24, 2023
@MOULE Depends where I am. A subway car in NYC with a hundred other people? Absolutely. But in a store with good ventilation and hardly anyone else there? Maybe and maybe not.
Show threadferricoxideJul 24, 2023
@MOULE

I'm immune compromised (due to two medications I take: one monthly; the other, every six weeks). Mask primary protects against transmitting, considerably less so contracting. Given my relative risk and that there's pretty much no place where others are masked to any useful degree, wearing a mask stopped making much sense.
Show threadVulcanTourist [MOVED]Jul 25, 2023

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My wife has extremely rare lupus panniculitis (aka Weber-Christian's) and is forced to take the "chemo" drug CellSept to keep her immune system dizzy. I'm her husband and live in very close quarters with her, sooo... we BOTH wear masks.

Beyond that, we both feel some responsibility not to become brief COVID carriers for others. Being twice vaccinated doesn't preclude that.

Show threadEngelMichelman🐸 AntifaschistJul 25, 2023
@MOULE Could not wear a mask in work with children anymore. For a short while it was ok, when the incidence was high. But the toddlers need to see a face to read the emotions. So now I do wear a mask only in bus/train and in crowdy shops and markets.
Show threadBenoît B.Jul 26, 2023

@MOULE

In the bus when commuting

Show threadRoger NieldJul 27, 2023
@MOULE interesting stats! Thank you for this 👍
Show threadposiputtJul 27, 2023
@MOULE I voted "yes", but what I meant was: indoors with strangers (supermarket, transit...), when opening the appartment door for strangers, outside only when really crowded.
Show threadMarton👾Jul 27, 2023
@MOULE Mastodon people are really a different realm