• UnicodeHamSic [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    There was a moment in my life where I was optimistic about masks. I pictured a cyberpunk future we didn’t get sick as much and had a cool new fashion accessory we could have fun with. It is wild how capitlaism couldn’t even resist the power of covid

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      1 year ago

      Covid has taught me that we will not do enough, then complain that we did too much. I am not optimistic about things if this new strain is as bad as the first ones.

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        If a zombie virus ever legitimately happened, too many people would purposely get bitten to “prove them wrong”.

        I want to be optimistic and all, but too many people bought too much toilet paper for a goddamn respiratory virus that it isn’t even funny.

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      Same here. I was hopeful that covid would get people to at least be more conscious about not going places when sick, wearing masks when they are not feeling well, etc. But where I am at, people go to work, church, recreational activities, etc. with the flu and covid, even with positive test results knowing that they are contagious. I don’t understand it and it hasn’t gotten better.

      As far as cyberpunk… I still want a full face respirator with a clear face shield (so people can see your lips when you talk), an integrated HUD (for navigation, air quality monitoring, and browsing lemmy), and some LEDs for night time illumination (and aesthetics)

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      1 year ago

      Seriously? I found masks uncomfortable and annoying, I would hate the idea of it being the new norm for the rest of our lives.

      I live in a climate which gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I was often getting hot under the mask or fogging up my glasses so bad I couldn’t see where I was going.

      I would honestly rather just get the latest vaccine and risk getting a little sick by not wearing a mask than going through that whole mask thing again

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          1 year ago

          I gotta say, N95s done right are much more comfortable then cloth and surgical masks. I just didn’t know at the start of the pandemic.

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        The material conditions dictate that it’s the norm for the rest of our lives, unfortunately.

        We’re ignoring a grinding sound in our car right now.

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        1 year ago

        It is hot here but it doesn’t get very humid. So maybe it is easier. It could get uncomfortable at time but I still liked it. It did take a few tries to get masks that worked for my glasses, this is also true.

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          It doesn’t get humid where I am either, I personally never found a mask I was really happy with, then I just got fed up with it and only wore it when I didn’t have a choice.

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            I dunno. Maybe I am just weird but I like wearing work gloves and touching stuff I know wouldn’t be good to touch bear handed. I always kinda get that same feeling from wearing a mask.

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              As someone who didn’t try to not to get sick, avoided wearing a mask whenever I could, went to crowded bars with friends during the height of covid, etc, and never once got noticeably sick, I didn’t find the air I was breathing to be all that dangerous to warrant protection.

              I’m not denying that COVID exists, I got my vaccine the second it was available to me, I just didn’t feel as threatened by it as some others did.

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              Sorry, guess I’m not a hero then, I think trying for two years was more than enough.

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                It’s mad that people can go “hey my actions put people at risk of death and injury and I’m just going to do it”

                Coming from someone living with a person with long-COVID, someone who got infected AFTER being fully vaccinated and AFTER the emergency period, I just gotta say that this kind of thinking is really disappointing. Can you imagine if there was an afterlife, and you had to explain your actions to your higher power.

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                  It’s mad that people can go “hey my actions put people at risk of death and injury and I’m just going to do it”

                  Yeah, you know, I realize that driving my car around puts others at risk, it pollutes the air, I might hit and kill someone accidentally, but I have to get food and go to work somehow. I guess screw me for just trying to live my life, right?

                  Can you imagine if there was an afterlife, and you had to explain your actions to your higher power

                  I would ask why that higher power thought creating covid was a good idea in the first place, or why he didn’t care enough to stop it.

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                    Guy, you drive a car under the speed limit, sober, and when you have the right of way. If you fail to do any of those, and someone gets hurt, you are definitely at fault. You need to reasonably limit how much air pollution your car has and not roll coal.

                    God definitely gave you the means to stop it. It’s masks, filtration, ventilation, and obviously vaccines.

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        I agree with you, at the same time it would be great if our air output would be viewed as “unclean” with masks being the worst fix for that if no better ventilation systems are available. We need to stop recirculating somebody elses waste air in indoor environments to make airborn diseases less common.

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        1 year ago

        The 3M Aura and Vflex both breathe easily as heck. I’ve worn them on 40 degree days and I felt fine. They don’t block air like surgical masks.

        Good luck getting a new booster in most Western countries.

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          If it comes down to then being required again I’ll look out for those and give them a try.

          I’m in the US, I think we have had maybe the best access to these vaccines. I just checked one pharmacy in my area, 17 locations within 30 miles all with appointments today, I can even choose between Moderna and Pfizer. I haven’t gotten a booster in a while, but I want to say I’ve gotten the first two shots and like 2-3 boosters. The last booster was an updated one I think for Delta.

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            I guess for the West, the US has more access. Other countries, such as the UK, are paring back boosters except for the really vulnerable. It is still weird that the current vaccine is for a strain in 2021, though. Our societies should be doing better.

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      You envisioned some truly dystopian shit when it comes to a “cool new fashion accessory.” What’s cool about covering a face? That’s fucking morbid.

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        Introverts wet dream, never showing his face again. Look how much masks as a regular fashion accessory had already caught on in Asia since SARS.

        Some people are germophobes who would end all the disgusting human to human contact and exposed flesh from the world.

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          I went to a restaurant when they started re-opening. We were speaking to one of the waiters about it. He said he has autism and makes involuntary mouth movements. He said the mask helps customers as much as him about getting awkward when his twitch goes off.

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          Yeah, it seems like a high number of people are like this. I don’t really understand introverts I guess. They seem to be the majority on Lemmy.