Your sincere opinion on masks

They are here to stay

 

Masks at least in their current form are temporary, because:
1. They are uncomfortable and thus people will want to stop wearing them once they feel safe in doing so.
2. Disposable masks are a waste of money and natural resources.
3. Unless covid keeps mutating too quickly to be countered with vaccines, soon there will be no reason to wear masks.

If someone invented better masks, people might keep wearing them because they give a certain amount of protection from air pollution and some diseases. Also at that point different types of masks might be implemented to fashion.

 

I would be surprised if it was mandatory to wear them in a years time.

Tbh I really like the face masks. But I like them for a different reason. They seriously help my social anxiety. I can now walk into the supermarket, into shops with very little social anxiety because of the mask covering my face. Where as before the masks the social anxiety I had doing these things was much higher.

 

For me the concerning part is that at least where I live, they ain't mandatory, but people still use them.

That's a different issue, hiding is never a solution, social anxiety in shops? really?
I mean I sometimes feel "anxiety" in shops, but is more of the "fuck get out of my way idiots, why there has to be so many bloody people?" kind of anxiety than the I need to hide social anxiety type.

 

Yeah I think people might still keep wearing the masks for a while. I honestly would be surprised if it went on for years though, tons of people wearing masks.

I feel really anxious to speak to anyone a lot of the time. For some reason if I bump into someone and need to speak to them I feel much less anxious speaking to them wearing the mask than without the mask. I think the masks hide the emotion, the fear in the face etc. So for instance without the mask if I was an anxious wreck someone might really be able to tell this by my face, facial expressions etc. But with the mask all of that is seriously hidden. I don't know there just really seems to be a massive improvement in my social anxiety wearing those masks. I think it's just the fact they hide you, they hide your face, I almost feel like it is guarding me in a way, protecting me, and I don't mean protecting me from covid, I mean protecting me from my own fear, my own social anxiety.

 

I don't like wearing them and I can't breathe in them. I could care less what the science says, those masks didn't stop me from getting sick. I don't wear them at all.

 

Ok

 

Sincere opinion? Masks won't stop a virus.

But, I would love to have a better mask, that can stop pollutants. As I live in India, my lungs suffer a lot of abuse from stuff in air that a mask can certainly help with.

 

I just bought a ball gag cloth mask, it's a win-win - it satisfies people who want all others to wear masks as well as my desire to communicate something.

(was going to embed an image but then I remembered what this forum is about)

(subtle sarcasm intended)