Maybe they’re anxious or self conscious.

It’s been nice not getting a cold or the flu for a couple of years…

You should feel more threatened by covid than by masks.

Covid kills people. Masks don’t.

Your focus should be on how we can get rid of Covid rather than when you’ll stop seeing bits of fabric that don’t affect you (other than protecting you from germs).

Forever, because I look cool.

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Why do you give a shit? Are the bad mask people hurting you? Leave people alone ffs.

Yeah, it’ll be the rest ofy life. We should’vbe been doing this two decades ago, honestly.

I’ve started to skip the mask for small groups for short time periods but I still mask up for the grocery store, and large gathering, and any time I’m in a smaller room with people for a long time.

I get sick so rarely now, it’s great. And it’s so much less socially exhausting to wear a mask and be able to hide my face. I dont have to take a smile or watch my expressions nearly as much.

And it helps support my friends who are immunocompromised by normalizing mask wearing.

I don’t plan to stop for a long while. And I plan to always mask up if I’m sick, even just a cold, to avoid spreading it.

If you take the pollution out of the sky and guarantee sick people actually do wear masks and that facial recognition cameras are dismantled, then I’ll stop

I have asthma (is that technically immunocompromised?) and before COVID I used to just get bronchitis every year or two. I haven’t had bronchitis since 2020, except when I caught COVID by taking off my mask. If wearing a mask means I don’t deal with that shit again you better believe I’m not raw dogging public air anymore. Feeling unable to get a full breath is the worst feeling in the world.

I’ll wear one on public transit in the winter. It reduces the chance I’ll get sick (or as sick), and it keeps my face warm when I get back outside.

The last time I got really sick was the last time I was in the office and at least two people nearby were sick. None of us were wearing a mask. It took me out for a solid two weeks, and I had residual effects for almost a month longer (at the minimum).

Because of that, I could understand someone wearing a mask in the office all the time – they wouldn’t want to not wear a mask, then put it on the second they hear someone cough, lol

also the most disarming response when somebody asks “why are you wearing a mask” is, “because I don’t trust the government”.

I tend to wear them on public transportation:

a) in my city I wear them because we have bad public transportation and people tend to be dangerously packed inside the buses (this issue recently has started to be alleviated), so to protect my self (and also show that things arent well inside) I wear the mask.

b) in other foreign cities I wear the mask in public transportation because:

1)I dont want to be sick on vacations

2)Different countries probably(?) have kinda different strains of viruses and such, so it may be more dangerous for me.

if I have something contagious, I’m going to wear a medical mask, because that’s the purpose of medical masks. That’s considered standard etiquette in other parts of the world, and I think it’s a little rude that people walk around with colds and flus without masking up. if I’m going to be in a tube with a bunch of other people, like an airplane, I’m wearing an N95. That’s not even about COVID, that’s just about fuck that shit

also, I’m autistic, and there are times where I really don’t feel like having people see me. COVID made it socially acceptable to wear facial coverings indoors, so I might be at the grocery store wearing a hat, sunglasses, and mask, just because I’m not in the mood to be perceived. in this case it’s usually not a medical mask or n95, it’s either a decorative mask, or a neck gaiter pulled up.

I still masked up everywhere for a lot longer than most people did, before deciding exactly what I was and was not comfortable with. I figured, now that we’ve got the vaccines, and more than one antiviral that can treat it, plus other treatments in the hospital, I’m comfortable treating it more like influenza. not something that I’m going to avoid like the plague, but something that I still want to avoid, and when other people have it, they should be going out of their way to not give it to others.

oh and with the autism thing, if you have a place that’s blasting some oil diffuser, it helps a lot. people walk around blasting scent like it smells good and it’s just a headache

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/the-people-who-plan-on-wearing-masks-forever.html

I’m still wearing mine and we are in a covid surge right now. We can talk again if there are a few consecutive months with no significant spread. That might in fact be never.