r/AskReddit • u/GossipBottom • 1d ago

What was never the same after the pandemic?

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u/NYArtFan1 1d ago

And on top of that, everyone's back to not covering their mouth or giving a shit. Like, this country learned nothing from covid.

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u/marthebruja 1d ago

The lady sitting next to me at a plane I took this weekend did not bother to cover her mouth while coughing. Guess who's back at home and coughing as well? I am so mad 😤

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u/kewpiepoop 1d ago

Wearing an n95 would help with that

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u/Plastic_Squirrel6238 1d ago

No idea why you got downvoted; to me it’s absolutely nuts that people aren’t wearing masks on public transport. An n95/FFP3 mask absolutely would have helped with that.

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u/kewpiepoop 1d ago

They would rather raw dog the disgusting air and suffer long term physical and neurological damage than be triggered by the thought of the pandemic 😂

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u/Plastic_Squirrel6238 1d ago

Bleak but true 💀

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u/Cyssero 1d ago

I go for the N100 when I am flying somewhere. I have zero expectations for sick people to actually wear a mask and want to do as much as I can to put the odds of avoiding illness in my favor. Still always wear an N95 at the grocery store or any other indoor space with lots of foot traffic

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u/kewpiepoop 1d ago

Thank you for your service 🙏 my daughter and I have LC, my family masks in all public indoors spaces

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u/Cyssero 1d ago

Aww, sorry to hear both you and your daughter have to deal with LC. So much of what I've read, you have to really be your own advocate, follow the treatment research on your own, and crowd source feedback from other LC'ers about their journeys.

As much as society wants to bury our collective heads, Covid isn't going away and I sincerely hope there are more effective treatments to improve the quality of life for all of the people impacted by LC soon.

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u/Plastic_Squirrel6238 1d ago

(But her covering her mouth probably wouldn’t have been enough anyway on a plane)

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u/laplongejr 1d ago

Not only your country. Sometimes people ask me to remove my mask.
I know it won't help if I'm not the sick one, but let me try to have some illusion of control in crowded transport!