I only gave it up a year ago after COVID had begun, but suddenly everyone around me is snorting and hacking, and apparently very few people bother covering their mouth when they do anymore. It’s just for crowded spaces but 1 in 65 people in Canada have COVID right now, and while I’m super ultra vaccinated I don’t want to catch anything in general. It feels strange.

  • scintilla@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Also it’s mostly to protect other people in the case of covid specifically from what I remember the doctors saying.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Well, yeah, the medical masks are. You can get N95 respirators, which weren’t what people were generally wearing, and those are aimed at that. Might actually be possible to buy some this time around; the shortage was pretty extreme in 2020.

      I managed to get a reusable N95 3M respirator and filters early-on in the thing, before it was really in the news and everyone was rolling out the door of hardware stores with N95 respirators to ship to China and the like.