Did you have trouble with wearing masks? (not social masks)

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Our intent is to get our next COVID booster today. This will be our third booster shot. We'll get it at the hospital where we get most of our medical care and they still require masks. Our understanding is they have updated-for-omicron booster shots available.

Otherwise, the mask requirements here have been discontinued in most places here. I still choose to minimize my trips away from home and when away from home I still choose to wear a mask.

I'm comfortably retired and a strong MBTI INTJ so staying isolated at home comes very easily for me.

I very rarely had to wear a Covid mask. When I did, it wasn't for long and I didn't have much of a physical problem with it. I anticipated the discomfort from the strings that go round the ears, and used a piece of a wooden cocktail stick to fasten the strings behind my head.

But I've always suspected that masks can do more harm than good from a Covid point of view. That was the opinion of the health professionals until they did a suspicious U-turn later on. Before that, they'd pointed out that masks don't actually protect you very much, that they can give a false sense of security, that they can become damp and create a good environment for infection, that they can cause the user to touch their face more often, and that safely handling a mask is difficult and many people get it wrong.

So I began to feel that if people were being told to wear masks in a particular place, then the best thing would be not to go there, because they were admitting there was a risk and because any help from a mask would be pretty marginal.

Masks protect you....but they also protect others, too.

What Isabella meant was that it would have been selfish if you only used masks to protect yourself, and didn't think about others.

We were in crowds for the first time in 2 years when we were on vacation last week, and it stressed me out a bit because nobody but us were wearing masks. Does this mean we're going to catch covid now?

It's certainly not definite. I had COVID, and my wife didn't pick it up from me.

Do you have access to home testing?

I only wear masks when it's required. I have problems wearing non cloth masks due to my facial shape structure. Non cloth masks poke my eyes when my nose is covered. Some places like the hospital do not allow cloth masks. It's also a little harder for me to breath when I'm wearing masks regardless of if they're cloth or not. I have a low exzersion tolerance & get out of breath easilly when I'm physically active. I really need to start looking for a job soon cuz we have lots of debt that gets worse & worse due to inflation & I'm worried that the jobs I can do & get will have mask requirements. My 1st job was a dish-washer & the two jobs I had after were doing custodial things in retail.

Mask would bother me a lot but I wore them anyway, I'm planning to wear them again by the end of September when covid or influnza or monkey pox or whatever horrors strike. Maybe this time it'll be the plague. Bring out your dead!

I read that even a cold can lead to deadly complications such sepsis. And pneumonia, of course. But I think that's mostly in people who are elderly or have immunity disorders. But you could be incubating the virus and not know you have it yet, and end up giving it to someone with those conditions, and then they die and you basically murdered them. So wear your masks and wash your hands, even if you feel fine.

It could be worse - they could come with clothing tags sewn solid into the seams! Eewwww!!