Are people still wearing masks where you live?

[perplexed]

I noticed lately we are rarely seeing people with masks on including us! I see people wearing a mask once in a while at stores and not that much in doctors offices either.I am also not hearing about COVID on the news either that much! Thanks!

 

[Alligatorob]

A few, not many. I still do when I am sick, I think its a common courtesy to others.

 

[retiredtraveler]

I noticed lately we are rarely seeing people with masks on including us! I see people wearing a mask once in a while at stores and not that much in doctors offices either.I am also not hearing about COVID on the news either that much! Thanks!

I'm in Chicago burbs and masks are rare. Wife and I continue to use masks when going to stores. We're the 1-in-a-hundred that do. Many medical facilities have dropped the requirement in the past couple of months. We'll be traveling both domestically and internationally this summer and will wear masks in the airport and on the planes. We'll be in London and other cities part of the time and will definitely wear masks.

 

[Wolfhammer]

Only the bank robbers!!

 

[Blessed]

I am still wearing the masks. I am vaxed and boosted. I have not been sick with so much as a cold since the pandemic started. That has been an eye
opener for me. If those masks have helped me avoid any illness they are a good thing for me.

 

[Jackie23]

I still wear a mask to the health clinic and the nail salon but that is about it.

 

[oscash]

It's the luck of the draw these days. Although I'm fully vaxxed I still managed to get COVID for the 2nd time 8 weeks ago. Mild dose but stayed indoors until the reading showed all clear. A friend of mine is in a nursing home and 18 patients have tested positive, won't be visiting there in the near future.

 

[hollydolly]

Yes .. the minority.. for example I was in the Hospital emergency dept about 3 weeks ago. It was packed, I counted over 80 people.. and perhaps 3 or 4 were wearing masks.. including me

I do see the occasional person in the supermarket..

We did have an announcement last week to say that Covid was no longer a threat and masks would no longer be needed, going forward.. but I have 2 boxes of unused 100 disposable masks plus some excellent quality material ones.. so I;m gonna get some wear out of those..

 

[Murrmurr]

No. Even my doctor's office doesn't require them anymore.

 

[palides2021]

Like others said here, very few wear masks these days. On my trips to the grocery store, airplane, airport, train, etc. have seen one or two people wearing masks, but the majority do not wear masks these days. I don't wear a mask unless doctor's office or hospital requires it.

 

[chic]

There are a few here who still wear masks but very few.

 

[RubyK]

I see people at the grocery store wearing them. They are usually senior citizens.

 

[Myrtle]

I don't think so. For a long time I would see someone masked now and then but it's been awhile.

 

[jujube]

Very little mask wearing here.

 

[Jeni]

it is hit and miss but i found in traveling certain areas wear them far more then others.
what is odd......... it is often older people and then some college aged folks ..........
I do not judge people as i do not know their stories/ risks.
at my grand kids school there are kids who put them on as they leave the building to meet their parents picking them up ... which leads me to believe some parents want their kids to still wear them .... but they only do in front of parents....

 

[Ronni]

Doctor’s offices were the last holdouts here in Nashville.Then they dropped the mandate too.

I do see a few folks in the grocery stores that wear masks, but it’s definitely the exception rather than the rule.

 

[Remy]

I see a few people. I also notice some checkers wear them still. Perhaps due to all the people and faces they come in contact with.

 

[oscash]

I have noticed some people wearing masks when they are driving their vehicles and they are the only ones in the car, seems strange.

 

[Jules]

Some people wear them. The mandate is long over so it’s their own choice.

Even prior to Covid, there were folks who wore masks, especially on planes. Thinking of the times I ended up ill after flying, they probably were smart.

 

[Tish]

At the doctors, hospitals, dentists, optometrists,s, and chemists.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I'm seeing less and less wearing masks. Yesterday was the first time I didn't wear my mask during the day at all but I took a train that hardly has any passengers then was in an open environment (the park). Otherwise according to where I am, I may or may not put my mask on. A week ago Monday, I didn't wear my mask for the preliminaries during our eye appointment but put it on when the doctor was checking my pressures because she gets really close to me then.

 

[Mike]

Only on very cold days, keeps the face warm.

I tip if you wear glasses and they steam up when
you wear a mask, twist the elastic that goes over
your ears, so that the top one is pulling down and
the bottom one up, then put your fingers on at the
side of the mask to open it, that lets the exhaled
breath out at the side, instead of up to the glasses.

Mike.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Only on very cold days, keeps the face warm.

I tip if you wear glasses and they steam up when
you wear a mask, twist the elastic that goes over
your ears, so that the top one is pulling down and
the bottom one up, then put your fingers on at the
side of the mask to open it, that lets the exhaled
breath out at the side, instead of up to the glasses.

Mike.

Thank you for that tip Mike. Since it's warm now, the glasses aren't fogging up. Who knows, by the time it's cold again, mask wearing may be a thing of the past. I agree that wearing masks did keep my face warm during the cold weather, so though I could have removed them while walking outside, I didn't.

 

[Pepper]

More and more are wearing masks around these here parts. Very noticeable.

 

[hearlady]

I'm glad that that the mask mandate made masks more common so that when people are sick they don't feel weird wearing a mask out shopping etc. That will cut down on colds and flu.
I still notice when young people are wearing masks. I feel like they're up to something because no one else including a lot of elderly are wearing them around here.
The VA hospital is still requiring masks. Good. That should stay in place. I've caught things in the hospital because it's full of sick people!